News & Analysis as of August 25, 2025

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BNPL: Buy Now, Regulate in 2026 - FCA publishes proposals

Hogan Lovells on 7/21/2025

Key takeaways The FCA has published details of the ‘proportionate’, ‘flexible’ and outcomes-focused conduct regime it is proposing for newly regulated BNPL agreements. These include a pragmatic approach to documentation and a...more

UK Proposes New Approach To Regulate ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Market Amid Rising Consumer Debt Concerns

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/5/2024

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

Remarks by Governor Bowman on the Consequences of Fewer Banks in the U.S. Banking System

Goodwin on 4/21/2023

In This Weekly Roundup Issue. Governor Michelle W. Bowman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) remarked on the consequences of fewer banks in the U.S. banking system; and the Consumer...more

Open Finance: The Next Frontier in Fintech?

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/23/2020

Call for input: Industry needs to engage as the FCA moves forward on its transformative vision for open finance. Imagine a world in which you could access your bank accounts, credit cards, mortgage, pensions, savings...more

Financial institutions M&A: Sector trends - January 2019: The face of consumer finance is changing

White & Case LLP on 1/23/2019

Consumer finance:* Credit cards/Consumer credit - Deal activity involving credit card businesses blooms—trade consolidators, financial sponsors and big banks see opportunities - Buyers scrutinise historic compliance...more

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