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UK overhauls payments regulation, focusing on tokenization and open banking

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The UK has identified the payment sector as essential to economic growth.

The UK government’s consultation paper Modernising Payment Services Regulation sets out a plan to update the country’s payments framework for an era of digital money, tokenization, open banking, and increasingly automated transactions.

The central challenge facing regulators is balancing the competing goals of encouraging innovation while preventing the

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