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More payment systems caused cheque decline

The decline in cheque use occurred mainly via an increase in the number of payment instruments per consumer, a new paper from the Boston Federal Reserve reveals.

The research shows that changes in the relative convenience and cost of cheques also explain directly the decline in cheque use from 2003 to 2006. It also finds that changes in the relative characteristics of substitute payment instruments contributed indirectly to the decline.

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