Our new consumer enforcement regime
Our new consumer enforcement regime
Update from CMA CEO Sarah Cardell on the CMA’s new consumer enforcement regime, ahead of our new powers coming into force on 6 April.
It only takes one meeting to break competition law…
Posted by:
Deborah Wilkie, Posted on:
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Competition Act 1998 and cartels, Competition law compliance
If a company’s staff exchange competitively-sensitive, confidential information – even at just one meeting – that risks a breach of competition law. Learn more about what you can do if approached to join a cartel or to get involved in anti-competitive arrangements.
Accommodation booking sites: how to comply with consumer law
I find it tricky to book a hotel room, a B&B, or a holiday apartment. There’s so much to decide. What’s the best location? Do I need a swimming pool? Does it have parking? Is the place clean, comfortable and …
RBFA internship: step into the world of business and finance
As someone interested in business or finance, there is an almost dazzling range of options open to you. What you may not have thought about is working in the public sector – which might not seem at first to be the place in which business and finance are likely to thrive.
It's time to talk about mental health
Today is Time to Talk Day 2019, an opportunity for everyone to have a conversation about mental health. I'm going to share some of the challenges my family and I have had to deal with over recent years.
Retail banking remedies: a year on
CMA reforms are making personal and business banking easier. Learn more about how our reforms are benefitting small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and what’s happening next.
Celebrating the first anniversary of Open Banking
Open Banking is the central element of the remedies package the CMA put in place to tackle competition problems found in our market investigation into the UK’s retail banking market.
Season’s greetings: highlights from 2018 at the CMA
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Andrea Coscelli, Posted on:
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Competition Act 1998 and cartels, Consumer protection, Life at the CMA, Markets, Mergers
2018 has been another busy and exciting year for us at the CMA, and I’ve been reflecting on all our achievements over the past 12 months.
Promoting Competition Bulletin December 2018
We’ve been extremely busy since our last Promoting Competition bulletin, working hard to protect consumers and to ensure markets work in their favour. We continue to make substantial progress on two important cross-cutting initiatives - the first initiative is strengthening …
Could you be breaking competition law?
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David Harper, Posted on:
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Categories:
Competition Act 1998 and cartels, Competition law compliance
According to the CMA’s latest research with UK businesses, understanding of competition law is still low, with the majority of businesses still not understanding competition law well.
Insights into our economic thinking
CMA economists carry out interesting and innovative analysis. Most of this analysis is used in the decisions we make on competition cases, but we also think it’s important to contribute towards current topical issues in the competition world. So, to …