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Singapore remittance firms fined for information exchange despite no market harm
Singapore’s competition watchdog has fined two rival Chinese yuan remittance service providers a combined S$5.36 million ($4.14 million) for exchanging pricing info... (more story)
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China widens legal net to combat predatory pricing in service economy
China's proposed amendments to its 27 year-old Price Law would expand the country’s regulatory toolkit to counter destructive competition sweeping across multiple i... (more story)
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US DOJ found Amex GBT-CWT merger has little market impact
The US Department of Justice found that CWT Holdings was on track to lose global and multinational customers, leading the agency to withdraw a court challenge and a... (more story)
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Consumers challenging Amazon’s pricing policies for third-party merchants urged a Washington federal judge to grant class certification — a move Amazon claims could create the “most complex” class in US class action history.
A Texas-led coalition of US states’ “first of its kind” antitrust suit against BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard survived the defendants’ motion to dismiss today, with a US judge saying the states had assem... (more story)
Google asked a US appeals court today to delay the deadline for the company to make changes to its Play Store following a ruling that affirmed a jury verdict and a lower court’s entry of a permanent injunction... (more story)
Online platforms remain overregulated in the UK and the EU, a group of visiting US lawmakers said today after meetings this week with watchdogs, tech companies and officials across Europe. The delegation compl... (more story)
BT Group has seen a bid to challenge the dismissal of a UK class action against it over telecom pricing fail, following a ruling by UK appeal judges today. Justin Le Patourel, a consultant who is the leader of... (more story)
The Brazilian antitrust authority launched the first step of an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, investigating an alleged abuse of dominant position giving an unfair advantage to its web browser Edge. T... (more story)
Finnish phone maker HMD Global has asked Germany’s highest court to overturn a ruling that favored VoiceAge in a dispute over licensing terms for a 4G voice-call standard essential patent. HMD argues that a co... (more story)
Awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland must be reviewable by national judges in EU states to ensure their “consistency” with the bloc’s laws, including on competition, the EU’s top court r... (more story)
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The European Commission has confirmed it will withdraw its SEP licensing proposal after months of political deadlock. The move ends years of debate but leaves unresolved tensions between patent holders and imp... (more story)
Olivier Guersent has signed off as head of the European Commission’s powerful competition directorate, serving six different commissioners and witnessing the highs and lows of the bloc’s economic policies. In ... (more story)
Companies wishing to set up bilateral commitments in France not to hire each other’s employees can do so, but only under a precise set of conditions. This is the finding of the French antitrust authority, publ... (more story)
Concerns in the video games industry are mounting that in the EU it could have to overhaul its free-to-play business model, which relies on in-app purchases in games that are free to download. The European Com... (more story)
News of a $1.05 billion arbitral award to standard-essential patent owner InterDigital could prompt adversaries to rethink global litigation as a winning strategy.
The prospect of publishing the names of people and companies targeted by antitrust probes sparked a backlash from New Zealand lawyers, who warned the regulator it would deny innocent parties the natural justic... (more story)
A court order obtained by Itaú Unibanco to suspend preventive measures imposed by Brazil's competition authority has once again put the agency on the defensive — and raised broader questions about the limits o... (more story)
Companies will struggle to justify any form of deal with a rival to refrain from hiring its employees and could face stiff EU antitrust intervention. That is the message from a European Commission decision fin... (more story)