Mergers charter: one year on
Mergers charter: one year on
A year on from the launch of the CMA’s mergers charter, we’re sharing what’s working well and what would help it to work even better.
Online choice architecture - how do we end up making decisions we don’t want to make?
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Ollie Sugg and Vedran Lesic, Posted on:
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Consumer protection, Online choice architecture
How often do you see ‘limited stock’ or ‘last few available’ when you shop online? These claims can pressure us into purchases that we may not want or need. Read Vedran and Ollie's blog for more info.
Calling for competition economists: Secondment opportunities at the CMA
We've launched our economist secondment programme, where you'll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in casework while getting an insight into life at the CMA. Read Julie's blog for more info.
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 …