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  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    LexMicrosoft Corp
    Microsoft/Activision: messy process yields a better outcome for consumers Premium content

    Regulators have in the past been too lenient, now they are trying to act early to protect nascent markets

    The Microsoft logo and a science from ‘Call of Duty’
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Microsoft Corp
    UK regulator provisionally approves Microsoft’s $75bn Activision deal

    Competition watchdog was last big hurdle facing tech group’s attempt to buy ‘Call of Duty’ developer

    The ‘Call of Duty’ game on a smartphone
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    Due Diligence
    Can hot IPOs revive the market? Premium content

    Plus, the CMA takes its power and western companies fret over lost Russian profits

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  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    The Big Read
    The newfound influence of the UK’s competition watchdog

    The Competition and Markets Authority has enhanced clout post-Brexit. Critics are questioning its decision-making

    Sarah Cardell, chief executive officer of the CMA, against a montage of corporate logos
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    Utilities
    Energy supplier seeks to overturn new financial resilience rule

    Utilita says Ofgem’s planned capital buffer requirement will make ‘survival in the market difficult’

    Utilita has asked the Competition and Markets Authority for permission to appeal against the rule
  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Telecoms
    UK telecoms groups under fire for adding inflation ‘premium’ to bills

    Industry defend price rises as Britons face highest tariff hikes in Europe

  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Microsoft Corp
    Microsoft significantly reworks $75bn Activision deal to win UK backing

    Cloud gaming rights to be sold to France-based Ubisoft under proposal

    Logos of Activision and Microsoft
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Microsoft Corp
    UK competition watchdog reopens Microsoft-Activision deal to scrutiny

    CMA invites responses to tech giant’s new arguments in rare move that could pave way for $75bn takeover to close

    Scene from Call of Duty
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Amazon.com
    Amazon offers concessions over third-party sales to appease UK antitrust watchdog

    US tech giant addresses CMA concerns with proposed measures to help marketplace vendors

    Packages on an Amazon conveyer belt
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    Cost of living crisis
    UK watchdog warns retailers against food price profiteering

    Competition and Markets Authority calls for pricing policy reform as it finds high inflation not due to weak competition

  • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
    Microsoft Corp
    UK regulators open door to quick Microsoft-Activision deal

    New timetable from Competition and Markets Authority means $75bn transaction could be closed within weeks

    An image from Activision’s Call of Duty is shown on a smartphone near a photograph of the Microsoft logo
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Video games lose out in UK’s weak post-Brexit model

    The CMA’s initial opposition to Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger is surely not in Britain’s interests

    A smartphone with the frame from Call of Duty on the screen surrounded by game controllers
  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    Microsoft Corp
    Microsoft and Activision exploring changes to $75bn deal, says UK regulator

    Restructured transaction could trigger a fresh antitrust probe, warns Competition and Markets Authority

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  • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
    Utilities
    Ofwat faces rising tide of criticism as water sector crisis deepens

    Critics say regulator has failed to deliver financial or management discipline

  • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
    UK energy
    Ineos owner Jim Ratcliffe calls UK energy policy ‘crap’

    Britain cannot power itself on wind, says outspoken billionaire industrialist in latest attack

    Sir Jim Ratcliffe
  • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
    Jim Ratcliffe
    Ineos owner Jim Ratcliffe accuses UK regulator of being ‘hostile to business’

    The businessman is the latest to criticise what some executives view as an increasingly aggressive stance by the CMA

    Jim Ratcliffe
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Asda and Morrisons increasing fuel margins for UK consumers, watchdog says

    Government pledges reforms after CMA calls for greater market transparency for motorists

    An Asda supermarket gas station in Croydon, UK
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    Adobe Systems Inc
    Adobe’s $20bn Figma deal set for full UK antitrust probe

    Competition watchdog adds to scrutiny from EU and US

    Montage of the logos of dobe and Figma
  • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
    UK politics
    Hunt to review profits in UK food industry supply chain

    Chancellor agrees steps with regulators in response to high food inflation and the cost of living crisis

    Jeremy Hunt
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Due Diligence
    The next big battleground for the CMA Premium content

    Plus, smaller private equity firms beat the market; the Croatian retailer struggling to shake its Russian owner

    Due diligence logo
  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    Telecoms
    Vodafone and CK Hutchison agree UK mobile merger

    Companies must convince regulators that deal to create country’s largest operator will not hurt consumers

    Two smartphones showing Three UK and Vodafone apps
  • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
    Adobe Systems Inc
    Adobe chief warns competition watchdogs against stifling innovation

    Shantanu Narayen says blocking deals such as its proposed Figma takeover will lead to less investment in start-ups

    Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen, pictured in 2018
  • Monday, 29 May, 2023
    David Parker
    The UK’s competition watchdog risks undermining business dynamism

    A decision by the CMA to block the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger has provoked debate about its role

    Person holding smartphone with the Competition and Markets Authority logo, in front of a larger screen also displaying the logo
  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    Five banks broke competition law over gilts, UK watchdog provisionally finds

    CMA’s initial finding shows traders exchanged sensitive information on pricing and strategies

    A worker using a Bloomberg terminal
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    John Gapper
    A global antitrust alliance battles Microsoft and Amgen

    The UK and US are emerging as the toughest enforcers of limits on technology takeovers

    Sarah Cardell
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