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I’ve managed to finish this, but some of the parsing has me baffled. Can anyone explain the following please?

47a Beam, having upheld most of later transaction (5)
The answer looks like LASER, but I’ve no idea why.

15d Curiously, not the opposite of “here and now” (5,3,4)
It looks like THERE AND THEN (the opposite of HERE AND NOW), but that doesn’t mean “curiously”. Am I missing something obvious?

34d Aware I ignored reminders to pay in brief (11j
The answer appears to be SENTENTIOUS. I can work out how the word is constructed (SENT(I)ENT = aware minus the I - followed by IOUS = promises to pay in brief), but what part of the clue means SENTENTIOUS?

All help gratefully received!

"Laser" is "resal(e)" "later transaction" upheld.

Thanks Rusty. I would never have worked that out. I hate those omission clues anyway!

34d Definition is "In brief"

IOUS is just 'Promises to pay'

Thanks, Brendan, but that’s not my understanding of sententious. The online definition I found was “given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner” - quite the opposite of “in brief”.

I looked in Chambers and it agrees with the definition you've given, but in the online FreeDictionary it gives:-

sententious - concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
pithy
concise - expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"

OK, I've double checked Chambers and the second definition is

2. Aphoristic - and the second definition of this is "A brief, pithy saying".

Thanks Brendan. Well, you learn something new every day...

Like you I don't understand how "curiously" fits into the parsing of 15d.

I also can't parse 48a:

US lawyer with a French degree initially on the ball (7)
A (I think): attuned.
Where's the US lawyer?

Final one I can't get:

37a Diver's gold snaffled by a financial analyst (8)
I've got a-u-n-u-

48 "att" for "attorney". I don't know if that's a standard abbreviation.

37 looks like AQUANAUT. AU for gold, but I don't see the financial analyst