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• Swisscom to appeal CHF 219 million fine from competition watchdog

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 448
  © 2009 Swisscom Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Swisscom has been handed a fine for CHF 219 million for alleged anti-competitive behaviour in its DSL business until 2007. The company says it will appeal the decision by the federal Competition Commission (ComCo) 5 November, arguing that Swiss consumers have ...
  5 days ago

• A monopolies watchdog with nothing to chew

  
  The Edge — Authority: 121
  What’s going on at the Competition Commission? Er, not much. If the sale of Friends Reunited hadn’t been referred there, the watchdog would have only one case on its books by the end of November 2009. The dearth of deals has left the revamped Monopolies Commission with very little to do. And the same lack of ...
  6 days ago

• Investigation into Friends Reunited sale

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 435
  The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has asked the Competition Commission (CC) to look into ITV’s sale of Friends Reunited to Brightsolid Group Limited. ITV sold the social networking website to Brightsolid in August this year for £25 million. The OFT has requested a study into the sale over fears the family tree ...
  1 week ago

• Banks and housing finance companies under scanner for imposing penalty on pre-payment of loans

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 444
  Several banks and housing finance companies have come under the scanner of the competition watchdog for imposing penalty on pre-payment of loans. The Competition Commission of India, according to a CCI official, is scrutinising a complaint... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other ...
  1 week ago

• Odey cashes in on Barclays shares over EU uncertainty

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Crispin Odey the hedge fund manager who has made millions of pounds calling the fate of British banks has sold part of his stake in Barclays.
  1 week ago

• Opel sale on hold, GM asked to have a word with EU Commission

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 787
  Filed under: Europe , GM , Opel The EUs Directorate-General for Competition (EUDGC) is looking at the Opel deal that should have been concluded already, and is asking questions of Germany and GM. Principally it is trying to resolve the issue of state aid; it was reported before that if Opel was purchased by ...
  2 weeks ago

• London’s Gatwick Airport sells for $2.5 billion

  
  George S. May Business Blog — Authority: 133
  Per orders of Britain’s competition watchdog, the London Gatwick Airport will be sold to an international investment group for nearly $2.5 billion.BAA, Gatwick’s current operator, has verified that Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), an investment fund that invests worldwide in infrastructure, will purchase a ...
  2 weeks ago

• London’s Gatwick airport sold. A lesson for South Africa

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 122
  Britain’s airport operator BAA has sold Gatwick Airport south of London for £1.51 billion to Global Infrastructure Partners, an investment fund that also owns London City airport. Six thousand miles away on the balmy coast of KwaZulu-Natal, another international airport is also up for sale, only the buyer probably ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gatwick airport sold for £1.5bn

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Britains secondbiggest airport has been sold to the owner of London City airport for £1.5bn.
  2 weeks ago

• Gatwick suitor GIP lines up funding for bid

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Gatwick Airport bidder Global Infrastructure Partners GIP is reported to have lined up financing for the potential acquisition of the London airport.
  3 weeks ago

• Will Live Nation Ticketmaster Merger Go Ahead?

  
  THE MUSiC VOiD — Authority: 126
  Jakomi Mathews examines the Ticketmaster Live Nation merger, and it seems serious issues could hinder it.
  3 weeks ago

• Will Live Nation Ticketmaster Merger Go Ahead?

  
  THE MUSiC VOiD — Authority: 126
  The proposed merger between the world’s largest live music promoter and the monopoly ticketing company Ticketmaster is looking like it is on increasingly shaky ground. First, on 9th October the UK Competition Commission stated the proposed merger “will limit the development of competition in the market for live ...
  3 weeks ago

• BAA alleges conflict of interest in competition appeal

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Airport owner BAA faced an "acute and intolerable" conflict of interest from one of the members of the Competition Commission panel which found it should sell three airports an appeals tribunal heard on Monday.
  3 weeks ago

• Ferrovial deserves some sympathy

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Now for a CATfight. On Monday the Competition Appeal Tribunal hosts BAA v Competition Commission - a scrap foreign investors into Britain must watch writes Alistair Osborne.
  3 weeks ago

• Barclays wins review of PPI ban

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Barclays has successfully won a review of the rules on selling payment protection insurance PPI - a policy designed to allow borrowers to keep up loan repayments in the event of a loss of income.
  3 weeks ago

• ITV suffers blow as advertising charges unlikely to be abolished

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Struggling broadcaster ITV has suffered its latest blow as the Competition Commission ruled out full abolition of the Contract Rights Renewal CRR mechanism.
  8 weeks ago

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