Better Than Cash Alliance

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Better Than Cash Alliance (in German: "Besser-als-Bargeld-Bündnis") is a worldwide association of governments, companies and international organizations that aims to accelerate the transition from cash to digital payments .

Allianz 2012. Financed was established will of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , Citi , MasterCard , the Omidyar Network, USAID and Visa Inc . The alliance describes itself as a UN-based organization, because the United Nations Capital Development Fund in New York provides the rooms for the secretariat.

The alliance has 68 members. It works with the UN and other global organizations, in particular the G20's Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) . The seat is in New York .

The German federal government supported the Better Than Cash Alliance in the years 2016-2018 with a total of 500,000 euros.

Member governments

Companies

The companies involved include:

  • Grupo Bimbo , one of the world's largest food producers with its headquarters in Mexico City
  • Coke
  • Gap Inc. , American fashion chain
  • H&M , a Swedish textile trading company
  • Inditex , one of the largest textile companies in the world based in Spain
  • Mastercard
  • Unilever , a Dutch-British group, one of the largest manufacturers of consumer goods in the world
  • Visa

International organizations

reception

According to business journalist Norbert Häring , the alliance primarily serves the business interests of large companies from the financial and IT sectors. He also criticizes: Digital payment methods are "used as one of the main drivers for the introduction and expansion of biometric identification in everyday life - through fingerprints , facial recognition and, in the future, perhaps even DNA ." The alliance promotes the worldwide with the promise of wanting to eradicate poverty Enforcement of cashless payment transactions. He writes: "Especially for the poor and the poorest in rural areas there is no technology that enables everyone to participate in the economic process as easily as cash." That Saudi Arabia, of all places, is giving the G20 a guideline with the support of the Better Than Cash Alliance, Häring believes that how one should better empower women financially is bold and cynical.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About The Better Than Cash Alliance. In: betterthancash.org. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Norbert Häring: How India became Bill Gates' guinea pig - a conspiracy described by the main actors. In: norberthaering.de. February 21, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Better Than Cash Governance. In: betterthancash.org. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Contact Us. In: betterthancash.org. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from the Member of Parliament Dr. Anton Friesen and the AfD parliamentary group - Printed matter 19/4786 - The UN and the abolition of cash. (PDF; 143 kB) In: bundestag.de. October 24, 2018, p. 3 , accessed May 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Norbert Häring: Nice new money: PayPal, WeChat, AmazonGo. We are threatened by a totalitarian world currency. Campus Verlag, 2018, p. 26 ff.
  7. ↑ Norbert Häring: Nice new money. P. 10.
  8. ↑ Norbert Häring: A well-kept, open secret: Washington is behind India's brutal cash experiment. In: norberthaering.de. January 1, 2017, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Norbert Häring: The Federal Government has Saudi Arabia and the Better Than Cash Alliance give guidelines for promoting women. [1]