By Saloni Sinha ( September 9, 2026, 06:01 GMT | Insight) -- Australia’s competition watchdog received nearly 450 merger notifications and waiver applications in the first six months of its new mandatory merger regime, compared with about 330 notifications a year under the previous informal regime, an official said. Speaking at an event in Thailand on Tuesday, Susan Zhuang, a senior official at the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, said effective and efficient triaging had helped the watchdog clear about 90 percent of the high volume of applications it had received.Australia’s competition watchdog received nearly 450 merger notifications and waiver applications in the first six months of its new mandatory merger regime, compared with about 330 notifications a year under the previous informal regime, an official said....
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