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CMA takes first steps to improve competition in search services in the UK

Sarah Cardell

CMA takes first steps to improve competition in search services in the UK

Search and Search Advertising are critical for UK consumers and businesses so it’s vital that effective competition delivers good outcomes. Overview Google search accounts for more than 90% of all general search queries in the UK, with millions of people …

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Accommodation booking sites: how to comply with consumer law

Posted by: Cecilia Parker Aranha, Posted on: 26 February 2019 - Categories: Consumer protection
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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 …

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RBFA internship: step into the world of business and finance

Posted by: Gavin Knott, Posted on: 26 February 2019 - Categories: Life at the CMA
Gavin Knott - RBFA director

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.

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It's time to talk about mental health

Posted by: Adam Land, Posted on: 7 February 2019 - Categories: Life at the CMA
Adam Land stood in front of the CMA's logo.

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.

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Retail banking remedies: a year on

Posted by: Colin Garland, Posted on: 4 February 2019 - Categories: Consumer protection
making banks work harder for you

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.

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Celebrating the first anniversary of Open Banking

Posted by: Bill Roberts, Head of Open Banking, Posted on: 11 January 2019 - Categories: Markets
Night view over Taipei

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.

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Season’s greetings: highlights from 2018 at the CMA

Posted by: Andrea Coscelli, Posted on: 24 December 2018 - Categories: Competition Act 1998 and cartels, Consumer protection, Life at the CMA, Markets, Mergers
A photo of Andrea next to a Christmas tree

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.

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Promoting Competition Bulletin December 2018

Posted by: Andrea Coscelli, Posted on: 3 December 2018 - Categories: Promoting Competition bulletins
Andrea Coscelli

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 …

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Could you be breaking competition law?

Posted by: David Harper, Posted on: 16 November 2018 - Categories: Competition Act 1998 and cartels, Competition law compliance
A photograph of David Harper.

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.

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Insights into our economic thinking

Posted by: Julie Bon, Posted on: 29 October 2018 - Categories: Life at the CMA

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 …

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CMA’s new DaTA unit: exciting opportunities for data scientists

Posted by: Stefan Hunt, Posted on: 24 October 2018 - Categories: Life at the CMA
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Which machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques do competition and consumer protection regulators need to use and understand, in order to promote innovation and protect our society?

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