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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000840489-25-000100"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FCFS"
cik: "0000840489"
company_name: "FirstCash Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T23:24:26.664685+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# FirstCash receives UK FCA approval for H&T acquisition; expected close Aug 14, 2025

## Summary
- UK Financial Conduct Authority approved the cash acquisition of H&T Group plc on July 30, 2025.
- Court sanction hearing scheduled for August 12, 2025; Effective Date expected August 14, 2025.
- Acquisition to be implemented via scheme of arrangement under UK Companies Act; remaining conditions include court sanction.
- H&T shareholders approved the scheme at meetings on July 2, 2025.
- FirstCash subsidiary Chess Bidco is the acquirer; Jefferies acts as sole financial adviser.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000840489-25-000100
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FCFS
- cik: 0000840489
- company_name: FirstCash Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/840489/000084048925000100/0000840489-25-000100-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/840489/000084048925000100/fcfs-20250730.htm

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