Following on from our previous post and the LIBOR update article in our June 2013 edition of Regulator, the European Commission (EC) last week handed down record fines to eight financial institutions for their involvement...
Read More →Last week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the European Commission (EC) both gave Microsoft the go-ahead to buy Nokia’s handset and services business, and cleared a patent licensing agreement between the companies. The €5.44 billion (approximately A$8.15...
Read More →The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is ready to do battle with American Airlines and US Airways to block their mega-merger, but the airlines have the option of agreeing divestments in order to settle legal...
Read More →Hot on the heels of the Malaysia Competition Commission’s (MyCC) first ever decision to impose fines on Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia for engaging in market sharing arrangements (see our previous post), the MyCC has issued...
Read More →In the last two weeks, the US Department of Justice (US DoJ) and UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reached further settlement agreements in relation to alleged manipulation of various global interest rates. As reported previously,...
Read More →Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman Rod Sims recently addressed the University of Wollongong’s SMART International Infrastructure Symposium. The symposium, in its inaugural year, aims to provide a platform for international research and collaboration...
Read More →While the world of bank interchange fees can at best be described as murky, competition regulators across the globe have been searching for clarity by scrutinising these fees and how service providers, primarily Visa and...
Read More →In a significant development in the ongoing global investigation into price fixing allegations in the car parts industry, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that 9 Japan-based companies and two former executives have agreed...
Read More →In our previous post, we blogged about the investigation and criminal charges brought by the Canadian Competition Bureau (Bureau) against various chocolate manufacturers and a chocolate distributor in Canada for conspiring to fix the price...
Read More →The Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) has issued a proposed decision to impose its first fines for breaches of the Malaysian Competition Act. The fines will be issued to the country’s two dominant airlines, Malaysia Airlines...
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