This week's issue has a strong financial services focus. We cover the release of the long-awaited draft Bill proposing to regulate BNPL contracts as credit contracts and separately the release of key FAR Rules – Minister's Rules, Regulator Rules, and Transitional Rules – essential to enabling the transition from the BEAR to the FAR. On the ESG front, the SEC issued a scaled back version of its climate disclosure rule in final form, the UK government confirmed plans to regulate ESG ratings providers and the Australian government took a significant step towards enabling the development of an overarching national climate adaption plan with the release of the first of two planned National Climate Risk Assessment reports and the launch of a consultation on key design elements of the (planned) national climate adaption plan and more….