Over the last couple months, we’ve run a series profiling different government payments programs that have innovated on their payment mechanisms and in some cases linked payments to financial services. We looked at the case of UBL in Pakistan making payments to flood victims. We profiled GCASH using GCASH REMIT to make payments on behalf [...]

This is the fourth post in our series on G2P, branchless banking and financial inclusion. All the other posts can be found here. In this post, our guest bloggers look at the case of the small island country of Fiji. Matt Leonard, formerly with MicroSave, is a consultant documenting the lessons learned from Fiji DSW’s experience.  Till [...]

This is the fourth post in our series on G2P, branchless banking and financial inclusion. Our first post on Pakistan can be found here, our second post on the Philippines can be found here, and our third post on Colombia can be found here. Our guest blogger for this post is John Ratichek from Bankable [...]

This is the third post in our series on G2P, branchless banking and financial inclusion. Our first post on Pakistan can be found here and our second post on the Philippines can be found here. In this post, our guest bloggers discuss the Government of Colombia’s efforts to use Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs as a gateway [...]

This is the second post in our series on G2P, branchless banking and financial inclusion. Our first post on Pakistan can be found here. Globe Telecom is a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines that runs the GCASH mobile money service. We asked Paolo Baltao, the newly appointed President of G-Xchange, Globe’s wholly-owned subsidiary running [...]

Within just a few weeks this past fall, United Bank Limited (UBL) in Pakistan was able to design, procure, and distribute over one million VISA debit cards to the flood-affected citizens of Pakistan following the devastating flood.  In a country that previously only had 5 million debit and credit cards combined, this was no easy feat. [...]

As branchless banking services reach the scale needed to be able to serve large segments of the population of a country, they are starting to strike partnerships with governments, businesses and not-for-profit organizations that need to make payments to large numbers of people. The reasons for the transfers vary greatly from salaries and pensions to [...]