Join the Payment Systems Regulator’s roundtables at PAY360 to discuss where future innovation in payments is coming from in the UK. Conversation topics will include the impact of technological change (including the role of big technology firms), evolving user needs and international developments – as well as others that participants may wish to raise.
These will be hosted by Simon Less, senior manager in the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) and Julia Minulescu, strategy manager in the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR).
These roundtables are taking place on day one of PAy360. The first roundtable will take place between 12:00 – 13:00 GMT, and the second between 14:00 – 15:00 GMT in the Gallery Rooms, South Hall. Both roundtables will cover the same themes.
Simon Less is a senior manager in the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), leading the PSR strategy team and responsible for developing the PSR’s strategy and work programme.Before joining the PSR in September 2023, Simon was a founder and, for a decade, a director of Lucerna Partners, a regulatory policy consultancy. Simon has over 20 years-experience working in economic regulation and public policy – as a regulator, Treasury senior civil servant, think tanker, and as a consultant working with consumer bodies, regulated firms and regulators. Simon has a PhD in chemistry from Cambridge University and an MBA from Imperial College Business School.
Julia Minulescu is a strategy manager in the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR); she is responsible for thinking about the risks and opportunities on which the PSR may want to act and helping build the organisation’s programme of new work.Before joining the PSR in May 2023, Julia was a civil servant in the Department for Transport, where she worked both in policy-focused roles and in managing crises. Outside work, Julia retains a keen interest in psychoanalysis and continental philosophy and has a PhD in Psychosocial Studies.