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Bill McCaffrey

Partner
Head of Consumer Credit

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Bill McCaffrey

Partner
Head of Consumer Credit

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Bill McCaffrey is a partner in the Financial Services and Products team and Head of its Consumer Credit practice.

Consistently top ranked in the Chambers UK legal directory, he is singled out for his in-depth understanding of the market.

He focuses on legal and regulatory issues relating to secured and unsecured loans, instalment credit, leasing, asset finance, payment services and electronic money.

Bill joined CMS from Salans where he was a partner for 7 years. Before that he spent 14 years as a senior in house lawyer at Abbey National plc, First National Bank plc and Wagon Finance Limited.

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“He knows the area inside out”

Chambers, 2015

"A friendly, conscientious, practical and client-focused lawyer … it is rare to get someone at this high a level who retains that empathy with a client"

Chambers, 2014

“He knows the area inside out”

Chambers, 2015

"A friendly, conscientious, practical and client-focused lawyer … it is rare to get someone at this high a level who retains that empathy with a client"

Chambers, 2014

Relevant experience

  • Creditors and lessors on documentation and procedures for credit and hire products.
  • Credit agreements, statutory statements and notices.
  • Lenders and lessors on finance advertising.
  • Payment Services Regulations including obtaining authorisation and passporting.
  • Electronic Money Regulations including authorisation and passporting.
  • Asset portfolio acquisitions and sales.
  • Lender and lessor trading agreements with suppliers and intermediaries.
  • Account terms and conditions.
  • Block discounting, factoring and invoice discounting agreements.
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Publications

  • Bill is consulting editor for Halsbury’s Laws of England: Consumer Credit 
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Education

  • 1986 – LLB, Strathclyde University, Glasgow
  • 1987 – Law Honours, Strathclyde University, Glasgow
  • 1988 – Dip LP, Strathclyde University, Glasgow
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Expertise

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04/08/2022
Over­sight of Ap­poin­ted Rep­res­ent­at­ives
The Fin­an­cial Con­duct Au­thor­ity (“FCA”) has pub­lished new rules to im­prove over­sight over ap­poin­ted rep­res­ent­at­ives (“ARs”), which will take ef­fect on 8 Decem­ber 2022. These new rules are in­ten­ded...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
17/06/2022
Lenders told to sup­port con­sumers strug­gling with the cost of liv­ing
The FCA has sought to ad­dress the im­pact of the rising cost of liv­ing on con­sumers by writ­ing to Chief Ex­ec­ut­ives of over 3,500 lenders re­mind­ing them of the stand­ards they are ex­pec­ted to up­hold (the...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
17/06/2022
Con­sumer Cred­it Act to be re­formed
The Gov­ern­ment has an­nounced that it is com­mit­ting to re­form the Con­sumer Cred­it Act 1974 (“CCA”), which reg­u­lates lend­ing, in­clud­ing cred­it cards and per­son­al loans. This re­form is part of a drive...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
25/10/2021
Reg­u­la­tion of Buy-Now Pay-Later products fast ap­proach­ing
HM Treas­ury has pub­lished the highly an­ti­cip­ated con­sulta­tion pa­per (“CP”) set­ting out policy op­tions to achieve a pro­por­tion­ate ap­proach to reg­u­la­tion of buy-now-pay-later (“BN­PL”) products...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
03/06/2021
Con­sumer cred­it in­form­a­tion sheets up­dated by FCA
The FCA has pub­lished re­vised con­sumer cred­it in­form­a­tion sheets on its webpage. In ac­cord­ance with sec­tion 86A of the Con­sumer Cred­it Act 1974, lenders are re­quired to in­clude a copy of the rel­ev­ant...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
07/05/2021
De­fault No­tices for Con­sumer Cred­it Agree­ments: Have you made the changes?
Firms are re­minded that the re­quired amend­ments to de­fault no­tices must be made by 2 June 2021. The Con­sumer Cred­it (En­force­ment, De­fault and Ter­min­a­tion No­tices) (Coronavir­us) (Amend­ment) Reg­u­la­tions...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
05/05/2021
Con­sumer cred­it firms: changes to SECCI im­min­ent
As pre­vi­ously re­por­ted, con­sumer cred­it firms must make changes to their pre-con­tract con­sumer cred­it in­form­a­tion forms. These changes are now im­min­ent and must be made from 1 June 2021. Which firms are...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
26/03/2021
The FCA pub­lishes fur­ther up­dated tailored sup­port guid­ance for mort­gage...
The FCA has pub­lished fi­nal­ised tailored sup­port guid­ance (TSG) for mort­gage firms, set­ting out its ex­pect­a­tions on re­pos­ses­sions from 1 April 2021. The reg­u­lat­or also pub­lished the Coronavir­us linked...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
22/03/2021
Gov­ern­ment acts to bring Buy-Now-Pay-Later products with­in the reg­u­lat­ory...
Fol­low­ing the Woolard Re­view (“the Re­view”) earli­er this year, HM Treas­ury an­nounced plans to bring Buy-now-pay-later (“BN­PL”) cred­it agree­ments in­to reg­u­la­tion. The Gov­ern­ment has now brought...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
09/12/2020
UK reg­u­lat­or pub­lishes port­fo­lio strategy let­ter for main­stream con­sumer...
The Fin­an­cial Con­duct Au­thor­ity (FCA) has pub­lished a 'Dear Board of Dir­ect­or­s' let­ter it had sent to main­stream con­sumer cred­it lenders (MC­CL). The let­ter, pub­lished on Decem­ber 2, is rel­ev­ant to firms...
Law-Now UK/EU Trade Relations
27/11/2020
Firms must up­date their doc­u­ment­a­tion to ex­clude ref­er­ence to SECCI
In a re­cent de­vel­op­ment, the stat­utory in­stru­ment ad­dress­ing the Stand­ard European Con­sumer Cred­it In­form­a­tion sheet (“SECCI”) trans­ition was laid. The Fin­an­cial Ser­vices and Eco­nom­ic and Mon­et­ary...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
20/11/2020
FCA con­firms up­dated sup­port for con­sumer cred­it cus­tom­ers
The FCA has pub­lished up­dated guid­ance to firms con­firm­ing the en­hanced sup­port that should be made avail­able to con­sumer cred­it cus­tom­ers who are fa­cing pay­ment dif­fi­culties as a res­ult of coronavir­us...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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