Update: Aviva’s £3.7 Billion Direct Line Deal Faces UK Merger Review May 14, 2025 By Peter Chapman Aviva Plc faces a review by the UK’s merger watchdog into its plan to buy Direct Line Insurance Group Plc...
Google Abusing Power Over Website Ads, UK Regulator Says September 9, 2024 By Paul Sandle Britain’s antitrust regulator said on Friday it had provisionally found Alphabet’s Google had abused its dominant position in digital advertising...
UK to Probe Unilever’s Environmental Claims as Part of Greenwashing Crackdown December 12, 2023 Britain’s competition watchdog said on Tuesday it would scrutinize environmental claims made by UK consumer goods giant Unilever about certain...
Major European Power Cable Suppliers Face UK Class Action Over Alleged Cartel May 11, 2022 By Kirstin Ridley Major European power cable suppliers face a London class action that is seeking hundreds of millions of pounds in damages...
UK Regulator to Review ‘Crippling’ Post-Grenfell Property Insurance Costs January 28, 2022 Property insurers have forced “crippling costs” onto residents of apartment blocks in the aftermath of the Grenfell disaster, the U.K....
UK Competition Regulator Ends Probe Into Gallagher’s Planned Purchase of Willis Re November 22, 2021 Britain’s competition watchdog said on Monday it will not refer insurance broker Arthur J Gallagher & Co’s planned $3.25 billion...
UK Competition Authority Investigating Gallagher Bid to Buy Willis Re October 5, 2021 By Susanne Sclafane The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said today that it is investigating the anticipated acquisition of the treaty reinsurance...
Reports Call for Reducing Big 4 Accounting Firms’ Dominance in British Company Audits December 18, 2018 By Huw Jones Britain needs a new watchdog to shake up the country’s “Big Four” accounting firms and reduce their dominance of the...
UK Regulator Approves Xchanging’s Acquisition of Agencyport Europe April 29, 2015 Business technology and services provider Xchanging plc announced that the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has delivered its formal...