Bank of England reports broad support for next-gen payments design from 121 responses

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The Retail Payments Infrastructure Board has published its response to a June 2026 consultation on the design of the UK's Next Generation retail payments infrastructure. It summarises feedback from 121 respondents and sets out how this will shape the Blueprint due for handover to the industry-run Delivery Company in Spring 2027. Relevant to anyone tracking UK payments modernisation and the future shape of core clearing infrastructure.

• The RPIB received 121 responses to its June 2026 consultation, of which 110 came from organisations and 11 from individuals.
• Respondents favoured a relatively thin core infrastructure, with views diverging on which shared services, including fraud prevention, data sharing, directories and alias services, should sit within it.
• Where respondents specified a data standard, the clear preference was for ISO 20022 based syntax, with implementation detail left to the detailed design phase.
• The RPIB plans to hand over the Blueprint to the industry-run Delivery Company in Spring 2027, after which procurement and build of the new infrastructure will begin.
• Respondents strongly preferred a phased migration approach to transitioning onto the future infrastructure, according to the document's closing section.

Executive summary

The Bank of England's Retail Payments Infrastructure Board (RPIB) has published its response to a consultation, launched in June 2026, on the design of the UK's Next Generation retail payments infrastructure. The consultation sought views on future payment journeys, design…

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