00000nam 2200000zi 4500 9.882841 CaOODSP 20250821075118 m o d f cr ||||||||||| 191212t20192019oncd ob f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng rda CaOODSP eng fre n-cn--- FB3-7/2019-31E-PDF Huynh, Kim P., 1974- author. 2018 merchant acceptance survey / by Kim P. Huynh, Gradon Nicholls and Mitchell W. Nicholson. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (ii, 11 pages) : colour charts. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Staff analytical note = Note analytique du personnel, 2369-9639 ; 2019-31 Title from cover. Includes bibliographical references (page 11). "In 2015, the Bank of Canada surveyed merchants and found that cash was nearly universally accepted (Fung, Huynh and Kosse 2017). Since 2015, retail payments in Canada have become increasingly digitalized, as many Canadians have adopted digital payment innovations like contactless cards and Interac e-Transfer. This trend prompted us to ask the question: what share of Canadian merchants still accept cash? The Bank of Canada’s 2018 Merchant Acceptance Survey (MAS) was designed to study the acceptance of payment methods by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Canada. In this paper, we discuss the survey’s design, methodology and findings, and compare our results with the findings from 2015. Our results show that cash remains accepted by 96 percent of SMBs in Canada and that only 8 percent of SMBs report plans to stop accepting cash within the next five years"--Abstract, page ii. Includes abstract in French. Cash transactions Canada. Electronic funds transfers Canada. Opérations au comptant Canada. Transferts électroniques de fonds Canada. Bank of Canada. Staff analytical note (Bank of Canada) 2369-9639 ; 2019-31. (CaOODSP)9.807323 PDF 507 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2019/banque-bank-canada/FB3-7-2019-31-eng.pdf