#DigitalPayments save time, boost financial inclusion & improve access to services. At #AfricaEnergy Indaba 2026, leaders push investment, tech & partnerships to drive the continent’s energy future. Listen to @LucyMbabazi in this report by @channelafrica1
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🇨🇴Colombia avanzó con #BreB para transformar un ecosistema financiero fragmentado, habilitando #interoperabilidad y pagos instantáneos. Su adopción impulsa competencia, pymes e inclusión, aunque persisten retos como el 4x1000 y mayor protección antifraude
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🤳 As #DPI systems scale, so do risks like fraud and exclusion. Redress must be built in from the start—secure ID, verified transactions, evidence sharing. Users need quick, clear recourse, aligned with UN Principles for Responsible #DigitalPayments https://bit.ly/4uc6T3M
🤳 #FinancialInclusion boosts development & resilience, notes the #GPFI, which in 2025 issued policy recommendations to advance from basic financial access to effective, responsible usage by identifying barriers, trends & actionable steps for policymakers.
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🤳 What’s next for #FinancialInclusion? @CGAP’s #GlobalFindex 2025 podcast shows:
1️⃣ #Access is up—75% have accounts—but resilience lags.
2️⃣ #DigitalPayments grow, yet risks like scams persist.
3️⃣ 1.3B #excluded remain—reaching them needs new models.
https://bit.ly/4ry2Exs
⚖️ Social justice means fair access to #education, decent #work, and universal #socialprotection. Inclusive policies and #digitalpayments can strengthen accountability, cut costs, reduce leakage, and improve delivery of vital public services. #DayofSocialJustice
🚨 As Digital Financial Services #DFS grow, scams and risks like fraud, data misuse, and downtime rise too. Protecting vulnerable users requires coordinated action, guided by the #UN Principles for Responsible #DigitalPayments to ensure fairness and safety
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🇮🇳 The #AIImpactSummit in New Delhi advances global #AI governance, following the UN’s creation of permanent mechanisms like the new Scientific Panel. As AI grows, transparency in digital payments and chatbot interactions is more crucial than ever. https://bit.ly/4qDRZQE
#BreB está transformando los pagos digitales en #Colombia con interoperabilidad plena, un modelo único que integra cámaras privadas bajo gobernanza de @BancoRepublica, y una adopción masiva que superó en los primeros 15 días 34 millones de transacciones
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⛓️ Un proyecto de @BetterThan_Cash y Carbon Plus México se graduó del SDG #Blockchain Accelerator del @UNDP; se diseñó una herramienta de #pagosdigitales para canalizar ingresos de créditos de carbono a comunidades de Oaxaca de forma rastreable e inclusiva https://bit.ly/3OkXDJX
🇨🇴 #BreB es el sistema de pagos inmediatos interoperable que amplía la digitalización financiera en #Colombia. Una publicación de @BetterThan_Cash explica cómo el @BancoRepublica asumió un rol central al regular y operar esta infraestructura digital #DPI
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🌍African workers and diaspora send much of their income home as a cultural duty that brings both financial strain and pride, with $100B in 2022 remittances supporting extended families' essential needs like rent, healthcare, and school fees. https://bit.ly/3ZQyzwM
🧺 Sustainable #digital merchant payments require balancing consumer ease, viability & provider economics. Fee-based revenue falls short for #micro‑merchants, but sustainability can improve through diversification, usage incentives & tech‑driven cost cuts https://bit.ly/4tehGtG
🤳🏽 Mobile‑enabled merchant payments are growing, but adoption lags due to low awareness and key barriers. @GSMA highlights the need for interoperability, simpler UX, lower fees & trust‑building to scale P2B & boost #financialinclusion and economic impact https://bit.ly/3ZGzhN6
☀️ Clean #energy is essential for an inclusive, sustainable future. With 666M people still without electricity, PayGo and #digitalpayments are expanding access, enabling affordable solar for millions and supporting socioeconomic and environmental progress. #CleanEnergyDay
👩🏾🌾 @UNDP’s #FAST initiative offers guidance for financial institutions on engaging survivors of modern slavery. #DigitalFinance is helping fight labor exploitation by making #payments traceable & formalizing employment, especially in vulnerable sectors.
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🇵🇪 La #interoperabilidad impulsa los pagos digitales en #Perú con más de 132M transacciones mensuales y 1,7 pagos diarios por adulto, mientras se avanza en #OpenFinance, identidad digital y una nueva plataforma pública de pagos que ampliará más el acceso
https://bit.ly/4sV2oK8
🇵🇭 🇧🇩Clients in #Bangladesh & the #Philippines value simple, easy‑to‑understand microfinance products. A customer‑centric approach using surveys & interviews helps ensure real positive outcomes & stronger consumer protection #UN Principles #DigitalPayments
https://bit.ly/4bIH9oB
@UNDP & @BetterThan_Cash aim to advance #MSMEs #financialinclusion in #LAC through #digitalpayments. Inclusion by design, trust & protection, the creation of productive value to boost formalization and access are essential to closing the digital gap https://bit.ly/49Q1Z2Y
🤳 Nearly 80% of adults globally have financial accounts, but many in low- and middle-income economies still don't use formal services. With strong safeguards, #DPI & #AI can cut costs & help tailor products, unlocking inclusive growth for billions. https://bit.ly/49oAwX8
🇺🇳 #UN General Assembly adopts the Biennial Resolution on Financial Inclusion for Sustainable Development, recognizing #FinancialHealth: to manage daily financial needs, withstand shocks, pursue long-term goals, & feel confident about one's financial life
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🇧🇷#Pix & 🇮🇳 #UPI illustrate how digital public infrastructure #DPI can drive #financialinclusion as a public good. By 2024, they handled nearly two-thirds of global real-time transactions, enabling secure, low-cost and instant payments for millions
https://bit.ly/3NuEXXL
Digital Public Infrastructure (#DPI) in Latin America and the Caribbean—spanning identity, data exchange, and #digitalpayments—can boost inclusive services if built on openness, interoperability, and rights. Strong governance and partnerships drive success https://bit.ly/4qgcFPn
🇳🇬 Blind Nigerians face exclusion in cashless systems due to inaccessible apps, USSD, and ATMs, despite inclusion policies. #The UN Principles for Responsible #DigitalPayments urge empathetic design for diverse needs to ensure financial access & dignity
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Thousands of workers #Ethiopia’s industrial parks need simple, reliable #digitalpayments. In December, stakeholders were invited by the @BetterThan_Cash Alliance to co-design solutions, committing to practical, people-centered services for easier pay, savings & money management.
📈 Las #mipymes impulsan empleo y PIB en América Latina, pero el efectivo las limita. Digitalizar pagos con inclusión, protección y valor productivo es clave para crecimiento, equidad y resiliencia. @PNUD y @betterthan_cash impulsan la #inclusiónfinanciera https://bit.ly/4j9fEGD
In 2025 @BetterThan_Cash partners endorsed our 2026–2030 strategy to scale responsible #digitalpayments. Focus: dignity-driven inclusion for women, youth, MSMEs in cash-heavy sectors, enabling credit, savings & rapid impact in agriculture, trade & services https://bit.ly/4al0I5P
Over 10M low-income #women in #Pakistan opened bank accounts via #BISP, ending reliance on agents. New #digital wallets enable mobile access and biometric withdrawals. Pakistan targets 100% digital BISP payments by 2026.
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🌍 Today is @UNESCO's #WorldFuturesDay! At the Alliance, we celebrate futures thinking, foresight, & inclusive #digitalpayments to empower 1.3B excluded people. Governments & businesses must lead with responsible #DPI to advance financial inclusion for all https://bit.ly/4pHQHnF
🇬🇭 Ghana is an African leader in digital payments with 350M transactions quarterly & a mobile money base of 24M users. We are digitizing the cocoa value chain through the Cocoa Management System, embedding the UN Principles for Responsible #DigitalPayments https://bit.ly/4or0YDu
