Tag: CMA

By: Will Hayter (Competition & Markets Authority) Digital markets have come to play a central role in our personal, economic and social lives. For many...

Britain’s competition regulator has launched an investigation into the music streaming market to establish whether innovation is being stifled and if any companies hold...

Brexit – the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union – has been a spur to new regulatory developments. In recent months, the British approach...

A PCR Covid-19 travel tests provider has committed to improve a number of its practices and ensure that refunds due to customers have been...

In this paper we consider the proposals in the UK for regulation of the most powerful digital firms. We examine some key areas of...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an official probe into sustainability claims made by the fashion industry amid rising concern the sector...

This paper shows that competition authorities in Europe have adopted very different approaches to assess the competitive effect of horizontal mergers on retail grocery...

Over the past 20 years, grocery retailing has probably been the sector most investigated by the UK competition authorities. Given that three quarters of...

By: Andrea Coscelli (CMA Blog) The emergence of the Omicron strain has added to the uncertainty being felt by consumers and businesses about the impact of...

By Devin Reilly, D. Daniel Sokol & David Toniatti1   In the revised “Digital Markets Strategy” published in February 2021, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority...