New Studies Show Cash Is As Important As Ever, Particularly to Underbanked Americans

HOUSTON, June 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Independent research company, Javelin Strategy & Research, with support from Cardtronics, conducted two new studies on cash to assess the strength and desirability of all payment options and to provide a window into consumer payment preferences within the U.S., both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn.
In late 2019, Cardtronics commissioned an independently produced research report about cash usage in the U.S., which published in February 2020 as the 2020 Health of Cash Study. Earlier this year, Cardtronics commissioned Javelin to conduct a companion study to measure consumer sentiment toward cash and payments during the pandemic. Cardtronics summarized the results of these two studies in a white paper called Health of Cash Check-Up May 2020: A Study of Cash and Payments in the United States.Paul Wilmore, CMO for Cardtronics, said, “We saw from the first study that cash was the most used payment method and consumers associated cash with protection from data hacking, availability for everyone, privacy protection, spending control, and reliability. The second study revealed that for most consumers, cash remains the most used payment method of any available. While COVID-19 has created tremendous change in nearly every aspect of the daily lives of consumers, the crisis has not removed cash from its place of critical importance in the wallets of U.S. consumers.”Key findings of the new study include:Payment preference, and the preference to pay in cash, has not changedConsumers are making fewer payments of all typesConsumers are not worried about using cashFor underbanked, cash is still the most important way to payConsumers want to choose how they payConsumers are not significantly shifting payment activity to mobile and contactlessBoth studies are available for download at cardtronics.com/healthofcash.
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Cardtronics is the trusted leader in financial self-service, enabling cash transactions at approximately 285,000 ATMs across 10 countries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa. Leveraging our unmatched scale, expertise, and innovation, top-tier merchants and businesses of all sizes use our ATM solutions to drive growth, in-store traffic, and retail transactions. Financial services providers rely on Cardtronics to deliver superior service at their ATMs, on Cardtronics ATMs where they place their brand, and through Cardtronics’ Allpoint Network, the world’s largest surcharge-free ATM network, with over 55,000 locations. As champions of cash, Cardtronics converts digital currency into physical cash, driving payments choice for businesses and consumers alike. To learn more about Cardtronics, visit www.cardtronics.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.Contact Information:Cardtronics is a registered trademark of Cardtronics plc and its subsidiaries.
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