March 24, 2023
New Report Examines BNPL Providers’ Painful Pivot to Profitability
After a record-breaking year in 2021, the FinTech industry experienced a significant downturn in 2022. High inflation, market volatility and recession fears caused investors to shift their focus from companies’...
March 23, 2023
PayPal Begins Rolling out Passkeys for Google Android Devices
PayPal has begun rolling out passkeys for Google Android devices. The rollout has begun with Android mobile web users in the United States and will expand to more users over...
March 23, 2023
Antitrust Chronicle® – Interlocking
Dear Readers, Minority shareholdings and interlocking directorships between competitors are, and have always been, a widespread practice in certain industries. Given that, on their face, such links may influence companies’...
March 23, 2023
Transatlantic Perspectives On Interlocking Directorates
This article highlights the potential anticompetitive risks raised by interlocking directorates between competitors, as facilitating collusion, and possibly reducing the intensity of competition, especially if combined with financial links. In...
March 23, 2023
The Peculiar Case of Horizontal Directors
Directors wield increasing influence in corporate America, making pivotal decisions regarding corporate affairs and management. A robust literature recognizes directors’ important role and examines their incentives and performance. In particular,...
March 23, 2023
Interpreting Competition in Interlocking Directorates: Why The 1990 Amendments may...
Consistent with the Biden administration’s push for vigorous antitrust law enforcement, enforcers have begun to employ Section 8 to target interlocking directorates. Upon closer review, however, the 1990 amendments to...
March 23, 2023
EU Customers Warming to Convenience of Retail Subscriptions
Competition in the eCommerce space is increasing as customer acquisition costs continue to rise. Thomas Marks, head of growth at sticky.io, attributes the growing competition to new eCommerce businesses bursting onto...
March 22, 2023
Fed’s Nod to Credit Tightening Portends Tough Times for Paycheck-to-Paycheck...
Another Fed meeting, another interest rate hike … and more trouble ahead for paycheck-to-paycheck consumers and small to midsize businesses (SMBs). The central bank boosted its benchmark interest rate by...
March 22, 2023
SVB Collapse Raises Knotty Questions About the Overseers and the...
Hindsight is always 20/20 — and, in the rearview mirror, the Silicon Valley Bank collapse was obvious to see. Big bank. Dominant player/big fish in a relatively small pond. That...
