Payments Systems Regulator is examining spate of outages, which also affected Sainsbury's and Tesco.
The payments watchdog is examining the tech outages that have caused chaos for a number of high-profile retail outlets over the last week.
The PSR is the UK's economic regulator for payment systems, seeking to ensure they work well for those that use them. Such systems are firmly in the spotlight after a series of technical glitches which left customers unable to make purchases.most online grocery deliveries on Saturday due to issues with an overnight software update which also hit contactless payments in stores. Tesco was also forced to cancel a "small number" of orders.As a result of the outages being so close together, experts have suggested they could be linked, for example via a common network or payments infrastructure provider.
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