The Better Than Cash Alliance is a partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Analyzing impacts and potential of mobile money on (women’s) economic empowerment, financial inclusion and poverty reduction.
This report from FinCoNet’s Standing Committee presents findings on the use of Supervisory Technology (SupTech) by market conduct supervisors.
Mobile money accounts have spread widely in select regions of the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. This Research Brief focuses on the individual and household impacts of mobile money.
COVID-19 is causing unprecedented health, economic and social crises and threatens the poverty and inclusion gains that have been made over the last decade.
The Report Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers identifies seven heightened risks resulting from the speed and scale of COVID-19 digital transfer responses.
An archive of tools and frameworks to promote responsible finance
This University of New South Wales paper proposes a framework – a Regulatory Diagnostic Toolkit (RDT) – designed to support financial regulators in emerging markets to advance their regulatory regimes for DFS.
This guide is for institutions interested in developing a supply chain finance solution.
This guide draws on the authors’ own experiences, interviews with EMI supervisors, and available literature to provide guidance to EMDE supervisors who wish to design a proportional approach to EMI supervision.
This Guide to the Use of Digital Finance in Agriculture aims to provide a quick and easy-to-use tool to understand how one new technology platform, digital finance, can help address some of the challenges that smallholder farmers are experiencing today—mainly, lack of access to financial services and convenient payment systems.
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) developed this toolkit in collaboration with Bankable Frontier Associates (BFA).
The RDT is the world’s first structured analytical framework to support regulators by using a systematic approach to assess, adapt and advance regulatory regimes for DFS.
This is a draft of the Guidelines (Part II – Proposed Actions and References)
This is a first draft of the Guidelines (Overview – Part I)
This is a draft version and remains work-in-progress as digital financial services is a rapidly evolving space.
This draft (Annex I – Due Diligence Tool V.1) remains work-in-progress as digital financial services is a rapidly evolving space
The focus of this Guide is on the design and implementation of digital ID systems that provide people with proof of legal identity, which is commonly needed to access basic services, rights, and protections.
A Toolkit for USAID Implementing Partners and Development Organizations
The toolkits, available both in French and English, are designed for financial service providers (FSPs) who want to go digital.
This Digital Skills Toolkit enables policymakers and influencers to work strategically in building the bridge between new digital job opportunities and the lack of digital skills in the workforce.