On 11 October 2019, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) announced that it is conducting a review of Specific Direction 8 that it gave to LINK to make sure LINK does all it can to fulfil its commitment to maintain the broad geographic spread of free-to-use ATMs. Specific Direction 8 is designed to make sure LINK does all it can to fulfil the public commitments it made at the beginning of 2018 regarding the ongoing availability of access to free-to-use ATMs for UK consumers. The deadline for comments is 5pm on 28 October 2019.