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    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Climate change
      UK competition watchdog to ease rules on climate change action

      Regulator to broaden exemption for companies collaborating on initiatives that will limit global warming

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      LexFood & Beverage
      ForFarmers/Boparan: birds of a feather scare rivals together Premium content

      Proposed JV between Dutch feed supplier and UK ‘chicken king’ faces regulatory challenges

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      Streaming services
      Music streaming is not unfair to artists, UK competition watchdog finds

      CMA says record labels and services such as Spotify unlikely to be making excess profits

    • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
      Meta Platforms
      Meta to sell Giphy after UK regulator blocks $315mn deal

      CMA’s final decision brings an end to two-year antitrust battle over gif platform

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Motorola Solutions Inc
      CMA says Motorola acted as monopoly in emergency services contract

      UK watchdog finds US company derived excess profits from network used by police, ambulance and fire services

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Jonathan Eley
      Big Four supermarket merger may be more palatable for regulator

      Mega deals have been off the table since Sainsbury was blocked from buying Asda

    • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
      Brexit
      Big UK regulators are struggling to adapt to post-Brexit roles, say MPs

      Public accounts committee warns that consumers and companies face ‘greater risks and costs’

    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      Microsoft Corp
      Microsoft’s Activision deal faces in-depth EU and UK probes

      Regulators in Brussels expected to follow CMA with plans for prolonged competition investigation

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Microsoft Corp
      Microsoft’s $75bn Activision deal threatened with in-depth UK competition probe

      Competition and Markets Authority gives US tech giant five days to address antitrust concerns

    • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
      NatWest Group
      NatWest to refund £600,000 to businesses forced to open costly accounts

      UK’s competition watchdog criticises lender over breach of ‘bundling’ rules that affected 700 SMEs

    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      Competition watchdog closes leasehold probe into Barratt Homes

      CMA cites insufficient evidence for case against housebuilder over ground rents

    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      Cat Rutter Pooley
      The energy price cap is a relic of another era

      A former backstop in the domestic energy market has become its primary feature

    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Veolia Environnement VE SA
      Veolia to sell Suez’s UK waste business for €2.4bn

      Deal with Macquarie could be derailed if Suez exercises right of first refusal on disposal

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      CMA’s false-positive virus check

      This strange mixed affair we call merger arb, when a man takes this whole universe for Avast practical joke

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      UK regulator makes U-turn on Avast-Norton cyber security deal

      Avast shares rise more than 40% after CMA provisionally agrees $8bn merger with US rival

    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      Cat Rutter Pooley
      UK’s competition enforcer has shot itself in the foot

      JD Sports’ CMA-enforced sale of Footasylum ends a sorry saga for all involved

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      UK competition watchdog to probe fashion retailers over greenwashing

      CMA to investigate eco-friendly statements by Asos, Boohoo and Asda’s George brand

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      Airlines
      UK regulators warn airlines over ‘serious problems’ ahead of summer peak

      Failure to look after passengers after cancellations among ‘harmful practices’ causing concern for CAA and CMA

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      Drug prices
      Pfizer and Flynn fined £70mn by UK regulator for epilepsy drug price rises

      Competition and Markets Authority cuts £20mn from previous penalty after long legal battle

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      Media
      BT Sport and Sky Sports consulted on freelance pay rates, suggests email

      Message to freelance workers in 2018 says daily fee was increased after discussions between broadcasters

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      Cat Rutter Pooley
      If it’s food vs fuel prices, cars should not come first

      Supermarkets using fuel profits to subsidise cheaper groceries looks like the best of a difficult choice

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      Media
      UK regulator opens probe into groups including BT and Sky over sports broadcasts

      Competition watchdog to investigate whether companies fixed pay for freelance workers

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Cost of living crisis
      UK fuel retailers are not inflating pump prices, finds probe

      CMA report blames global factors for rising costs but warns of ‘concerns’ in other parts of oil industry

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      UK construction groups accused of ‘bid rigging’ in £150mn contracts

      Watchdog says cartels involving ten companies colluded on tenders in London and Midlands

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Interview
      UK risks being a ‘rule taker’ on tech regulation, warns CMA chief

      Andrea Coscelli says Britain is falling behind Europe on reining in dominance of Big Tech

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