The Sage Group plc (LSE:SGE) is considering putting its payments business in the UK up for sale. Sage Group's Chief Financial Officer Steve Hare said that in addition to mulling the sale of its North American payments operation, it could exit payments entirely by disposing of its businesses in the UK and Ireland and South Africa. Steve Hare said, "We only really offer payments today in three [regions]: North america, the UK and Ireland, and South Africa. We don’t really, across our major geographies, offer movement of money services. We don’t believe it’s necessarily the case that to offer those movement of money services we need to own the platform as such. That’s really what we’re assessing, would we be better off partnering… as opposed to owning the delivery of the processing itself".