April 01, 2010
Where’s the Next Generation Wallet?
Why Contactless and Mobile Payments Have Lagged Behind in Consumer Adoption In the United States and around the world, financial institutions and non-banks are considering how and to what extent...
March 26, 2010
Competing Single-Entity Tests in American Needle v. NFL and Their...
Gregory Pelnar, Mar 26, 2010 American Needle v. National Football League has been variously dubbed the “most important case in sports history,” , “an opportunity to reshape sports law,” “a...
March 16, 2010
Is It a Hearing If Nobody is Listening?
Stephen Kinsella, Mar 16, 2010 There are many criticisms of the oral hearing process. Indeed, there is a general growing tide of criticism of the manner in which competition law...
March 12, 2010
Banks and Card Issuers Investing in Technology to Speed-up and...
An Adeptra poll of banking industry executives found that more than third (36%) said the incidents of cases of fraud they were handling had increased and a further 20% said...
March 05, 2010
Why PayPal Will Open Up the Walled Garden of Payments
Why Paypal May Do to Payments What Apple Did to the Mobile Ecosystem The 4th quarter of 2009 is definitely starting to feel like the dawn of a new...
March 01, 2010
Conduct-Specific Tests? How the FTC Can Reframe the Section 5...
Amanda Reeves, Feb 28, 2010 Over the last few years, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has awakened Section 5’s “unfair methods of competition” prong from its slumber and ignited a...
February 24, 2010
Is Visa Becoming Serious about Mobile?
Visa‘s appointment of industry veteran Bill Gajda is an important signal, but structural challenges to innovation will have to be addressed. Ever since its Initial Public Offering prospectus Visa...
February 16, 2010
Developments in Private Enforcement of Italian Antitrust Law: The Introduction...
Alberto Martinazzi, Feb 16, 2010 As from January 1, 2010, a new procedural tool for the protection of consumers, the class action, is now available in the Italian legal system....
February 02, 2010
Spider-Man Meets Antitrust Man
Some stories just cry out for comment; Disney’s acquisition of Marvel and the resultant antitrust issues is certainly one. Comic books are almost sacred to American culture. In fact, if...