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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the findings from its review on digital design in customers' online journeys when accessing consumer credit, with related press release, identifying good practices and...more
The judgment brings clarity regarding the fiduciary duty and unfair relationships. The consumer finance sector now awaits the FCA’s plans for a new redress scheme covering commission arrangements....more
As set out in our previous Cabinet News & Views issue of December 2024 here, the Court of Appeal has found that some commissions paid to car dealerships for arranging loans were potentially unlawful as the loan agreements did...more
Last week the Supreme Court granted permission to appeal the Court of Appeal's decision in a case examining the permissibility of motor finance commission payments, which challenged traditional legal thinking relating to...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a letter addressed to the Supreme Court regarding the applications for permission to appeal to the SC and requests for expedition in the recent motor finance commission...more
In October, the English Court of Appeal (the “Court”) in its landmark case Hopcraft, Wrench & Johnson [2024] EWCA Civ 1282, ruled it was unlawful for car dealers to receive commission from motor finance providers, unless such...more
In the UK, 14 million people used “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) at least once in the six months leading up to January 2023. Frequent users were more than four times as likely as other consumers to have missed a payment on a...more
HM Treasury has published its long-awaited response to the February 2023 consultation on its proposed approach to bringing Buy-Now Pay-Later (BNPL) within the FCA’s regulatory perimeter. The government is clear that “swift...more
To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more
Join Hogan Lovells Financial Services lawyers and consultants on Tuesday 6 September for the next webinar in our series on the new Consumer Duty. The FCA’s final rules were released on 27 July... and your firm now needs to...more
Hogan Lovells Financial Services Regulatory team shares insights on HM Treasury's recently published response to its October 2021 consultation on the scope and form of a new regulatory regime for Buy-Now Pay-Later (BNPL)...more
It’s just under three weeks until consumer credit firms must start using the FCA’s updated consumer credit information sheets which were published in May this year. In May 2021, the FCA updated its webpage on consumer...more
The U.K. government has published a response to the Treasury Committee's report on the Financial Conduct Authority's perimeter of regulation. The Committee's Report is part of its ongoing inquiry, The Work of the Financial...more
This update takes a look at the FCA’s Interim Report and its initial views relating to the review of the provisions of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (CCA), which show early signs of a more pragmatic approach to regulation than...more
Activist investor Carl Icahn has taken a sizeable stake in Bristol-Myers Squibb, a move that reportedly caught execs at the drugmaker unawares and sets the stage for a potential sale....more
The Financial Conduct Authority launched a call for input into its review of high-cost credit, including the high-cost of short-term credit (HCSTC) price caps. The FCA took over regulation of consumer credit in April 2014....more
On February 2, the Office of the Complaints Commissioner published a decision urging the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to review rules for regulated entities in the context of its consumer protection objectives....more