A Kenyan man completes transactions in cash and by cell phone.

The future of money: A glossary

Digital money or currency – a broad term describing any technology providing access to or even replacing traditional functions of money – is not limited to developing countries.

Airtime cards in China circulate as alternative currencies.

Money in the digital age

Are those crisp green bills wilting in your wallet? Coins collecting dust? As face-to-face transfers of money grow rarer in an increasingly digital world, cash is no longer king.

New institute to explore how poor spend, save money

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded UC Irvine a $1.7 million grant to create a new research institute…

New institute to explore how world's poor use technology to spend, store and save money

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded UC Irvine a $1.7 million grant to create a new research institute…