Guidance

Payment Systems Regulator: designation orders

Designation orders bringing payment systems into the scope of the Payment Systems Regulator.

Documents

Fnality Designation Order

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Bacs designation order

CHAPS designation order

Faster payments designation order

LINK designation order

Visa designation order

Mastercard designation order

Details

The Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 allowed for the creation of a new Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), with three objectives: to promote competition, to promote innovation, and to ensure that payment systems respond to the needs of consumers.

In October 2014, the Government launched a consultation on the designation of payment systems for the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). Following this, the Government announced at Autumn Statement 2014 that it intends to designate eight systems at this stage.

At Budget 2015, the Government confirmed this commitment to bring Bacs, CHAPS, Faster Payments, Cheque & Credit Clearing, LINK, Northern Ireland Clearing, Visa and MasterCard into the scope of the PSR.

The Sterling Fnality Payment System was designated as a regulated payment system in August 2022.

The documents below are orders specifying these nine systems for regulation by the PSR.

Updates to this page

Published 23 March 2015
Last updated 31 August 2022 + show all updates
  1. Fnality Designation Order added

  2. Updated with Cheque & Credit designation order (20 December 2017)

  3. mastercard order added

  4. First published.

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