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In summer 2025, UK consumer protection and review organisation and research provider London Economics published a policy research report analysing the use of environmental claims on almost 10,000 products...

In our previous alert AI and Machine Learning in UK financial services: the public response to the FCA and PRA | Insights & Resources | Goodwin, we discussed the response in FS 2/23 of the PRA and FCA to its discussion ...

The CMA has recently turned its attention to agentic AI and its impact on consumers. On 9 March 2026 the CMA published a research and analysis report on Agentic...

The Advertising Standards Authority has issued a series of rulings against major UK retailers including Boots, Debenhams, Very, and John Lewis over misleading Black Friday price claims.

On 4 September 2023 the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) published a new ‘Smart Regulation' consultation that outlined a number of further proposals to reform consumer protection law in the UK.

We finally have sight of the long-awaited Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill. Warning: It is a sizeable and ambitious piece of legislation, but the following is our summary...

Whilst we continue to await the first enforcement action under the CMA's new powers, other CMA activity in the consumer protection space suggests that dynamic pricing is likely to be prioritised for enforcement...

April 10 is the date that certain regulations made by the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission under the US Dodd-Frank Act come into effect.

Connected products are about to enter a new era of regulatory scrutiny. The EU Data Act (EDA) marks a significant shift by granting users the right to access both personal and non-personal data generated...

In this regular update, we round-up FinTech-related financial services regulatory developments for the week ending 20 May 2022.

I have long been interested in language - from studying two modern foreign languages at A-level, to writing a dissertation at University as part of my Law degree on the topic...

On 3 July, the CMA issued its draft guidance on the price transparency provisions in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA)...

The Consumer Duty sets the standard of care that firms should provide to customers in retail financial markets.

This follows earlier announcements by the CMA here and here and is part of a wider investigation by the CMA into misleading environmental claims.

The High Court's recent judgment in R (CIT) v FCA [2025] EWHC 2614 (Admin) provides critical clarity on the FCA's powers to name firms under investigation.

His Majesty's Treasury announced in February 2021 its intention to regulate interest-free Buy Now Pay Later ("BNPL") products.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") has announced that three fashion retailers have signed voluntary undertakings to ensure that consumers have a clearer idea of how green their clothes really are.