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Law's Eric Chaffee weighs in on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's "buy-now, pay-later" financing enforcement

MEDIA | June 17, 2025
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With CFPB, it's buy now, pay later, enforcement not so much

U.S. News & World ReportEric Chaffee, professor and the Peter M. Gerhart Distinguished Research Scholar at the School of Law, called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's decision to de-prioritize "buy-now, pay-later" financing enforcement “troubling,” warning it risks trapping vulnerable Americans in debt amid economic strain. He said the move likely overcorrects, despite some justification for limited deregulation.

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