By Sachiko Sakamaki ( September 18, 2026, 09:45 GMT | Insight) -- Japan’s competition watchdog on Friday conditionally cleared Oki Electric Industry’s plan to combine its automatic-teller-machine business with Hitachi’s ATM-business arm, finding that the parties' proposed remedies would be sufficient to address the competition concerns arising from the transaction. The companies, which together account for 65 percent of Japan's ATM-hardware market, committed to maintain supplies of ATM components and hardware, establish information barriers and provide information needed by ATM-service providers, with the measures to be monitored for five years.Japan’s competition watchdog on Friday conditionally cleared Oki Electric Industry’s plan to combine its automatic-teller-machine business with Hitachi Channel Solutions, Hitachi’s ATM-business arm, finding that the parties' proposed remedies would be sufficient to address the competition concerns arising from the transaction....
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