The Less-Cash Society: Forecasting Cash Usage in the United States
Consumers’ Use Of Cash Will Decline By A Total Of 17%, Or 4% Per Year, Between 2010 And 2015, Dropping To Slightly More Than US$1 Trillion.
Boston, January 12, 2011 – A new report from Aite Group sizes and forecasts U.S. consumers’ use of cash. It draws upon two surveys conducted by Aite Group (one of 4,696 U.S. consumers, conducted in August 2010, and one of 1,039 U.S. consumers, conducted in October 2010) to size the use of cash as a payment method in person-to-person (P2P), bill-pay, and retail transactions in the United States.Cash use, which has been declining in U.S. payments transactions, will continue to do so through 2015. But it is far from vanishing. While 30% of consumers use cash less often than they did two years ago, 20% use it more often. Gen Y is the only generation more likely to use cash more often today than it did two years ago. Consumers’ use of cash will decline by a total of 17%, or 4% per year, between 2010 and 2015, dropping to slightly more than US$1 trillion.
“Despite forecasts of a cashless society, the United States is nowhere near the realization of this vision,” says Ron Shevlin, senior analyst with Aite Group and author of this report. “In fact, if the use of cash were to decline by 17% every five years—our forecast for 2015—the use of cash in the United States wouldn’t fall below US$1 billion before the year 2205, roughly 200 years from now.”
This 21-page Impact Note contains 15 figures and two tables. Clients of Aite Group's Retail Banking service can download the report by clicking on the icon to the right. 
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- The Branded Prepaid Market in 2010 and Beyond
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