Oxford Business Law Blog

The digital economy has boasted of 'unicorns', 'change agents' and 'disruption'. But the difficult question that competition law, and the European Commission, must grapple with is whether the nature...

Consumers continually make small-dollar purchases through business-to-consumer (‘B2C’) Internet contracts, often across borders and usually without incident. Occasionally, however, the goods and...

The FCA has recently published its future Mission to start a discussion on how it can make a difference in making markets work well, particularly taking into account consumers’ increasingly complex...

My article 'Product Intervention for Retail Structured Investment Products: A Comparison of Rules in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan' examines and compares how financial consumers can be protected by...

In the context of consumer credit, the term ‘financial hardship’ refers to a situation where a consumer takes on obligations under a credit contract, but then becomes unable to meet them when they...

Professor Howell Jackson from Harvard Law School will hold a seminar on 'The Analysis and Estimation of Benefits in the Regulation of Consumer Finance' on 16 June 2016, at the Oxford Law Faculty.

The FCA has recently published an Occasional Paper on how consumers access financial services in the UK. The FCA’s paper, which can be accessed here, aims to foster a culture of access throughout...

The recommendations from the Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR) on access to regulated financial advice and guidance were published yesterday. The FAMR was launched in August 2015 to examine how...