LONDON—The U.K. government is exploring the use of open banking driven digital payments for public services.
In a blog post, Amanda Dahl, the deputy director of Government Digital Services, outlined the plans as part of a wider program of delivering new functionality for the payment of Government services, Finextra reported.
This includes extending the use of GOV.UK Pay—which already offers Apple Pay and Google Pay for central government digital services–to local authority services for people who are paying for government services on the go, like paying for Clean Air Zone charges, Finextra said.
"Later this year we’ll also be investigating how GOV.UK Pay might offer open banking, which means that people will have the option to pay for services conveniently using their own banking app,” Dahl said.
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