By Phoebe Seers ( March 26, 2025, 11:24 GMT | Comment) -- Concerns that a move to abolish the UK’s dedicated payments regulator could result in less focus on payments are “absolutely reasonable,” a senior official from that regulator has said. “If we don’t think about payments in the right sort of way we can lose opportunities for growth, innovation, competition and consumer benefits,” Dan Moore, head of strategy and intelligence at the Payment Systems Regulator, told MLex. But he added that so long as the focus on competition and innovation in payments gets the right sort of priority, he is confident that bringing regulation together into one place does create an opportunity.Concerns that a move to abolish the UK’s Payment Systems Regulator could result in less focus on payments are “absolutely reasonable,” a senior official from the PSR has said. “If we don’t think about payments in the right sort of way we can lose opportunities for growth, innovation, competition and consumer benefits,” Dan Moore, its head of strategy and intelligence told MLex....
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