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.
Business Current Accounts: how we’ve made your business account work harder
Opening a Business Current Account (BCA) can be stressful if you don’t know where to start or what you’re signing up to. We've made requirements for banks to make it easier for you to open the right BCA for your business. Read more about how this benefits you as a small business owner.
Bringing together regulatory thinking in the digital space
We’re delighted to launch the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum’s new #digital regulation research portal! This public portal brings over 80 pieces of regulatory research from 8 regulatory bodies. Read Gill's blog to find out more.
OIM’s UK Internal Market report: First impressions
The Office for the Internal Market (OIM) been working with economists across the whole of the UK to understand how our internal market works, and why it’s likely to exceed £190 billion a year. Read more about it in Rachel’s blog.
CMA secures final Privacy Sandbox commitments from Google
The CMA accepted Google's commitments to address competition concerns over its Privacy Sandbox proposals, but it's important we get this right. If you have views on our approach to both monitor and assess the effectiveness of the proposals, we want to hear from you.
CMA's Digital Markets Unit: exciting opportunities to influence the regulation of big tech
The CMA has newly created positions available within the DMU from April 2022. We’re looking for candidates with a broad range of work backgrounds and experience, to enrich the capability and culture of the DMU team as well as the wider organisation. Read this blog to find out more.
Secondment opportunities for competition lawyers in 2022
We are launching a new round of secondment opportunities for competition lawyers, to start on 7 March 2022. Since its launch in June 2018, more than 40 secondees from over 20 law firms have taken part in the programme and we …
Promoting Competition Bulletin December 2021
Today the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published its draft Annual Plan 2022 to 2023 for consultation. It sets our proposed overall direction and main themes for the coming year. We look forward to receiving your views. Setting our …
The cost of school uniforms: new guidance from the Department for Eduction
The Department for Education (DfE) has published statutory guidance to schools on school uniform policy. My son’s school newsletter recently delivered the shock news that school photographs would be the following week. As proud parents we were looking forward to …
Electric vehicle charging: CMA finds more needs to be done
We've set out measures to ensure a national network of electric vehicle chargepoints is in place ahead of the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. Read this blog to find out more about our concerns about the EV charging sector.
Promoting Competition Bulletin July 2021
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today published its Annual Report for 2020 to 2021, which explains how it saved consumers at least £2 billion. The report demonstrates the considerable amount that the CMA has achieved this year, delivering …