April 15, 2012
Vodafone, Telefónica, and Everything Everywhere’s mobile commerce joint venture enters...
The European Commission has opened a phase II investigation into the proposed joint venture between Vodafone, Telefónica, and Everything Everywhere (a T-Mobile UK and Orange UK joint venture). The companies...
April 04, 2012
Private healthcare market referred to Competition Commission
The OFT has referred the private healthcare market in the United Kingdom to the Competition Commission. The referral follows the OFT’s public consultation on the findings of its December 2011...
April 02, 2012
DirectCash Buys Australian ATM Firm for $173 Million
DirectCash Payments Inc., a Canadian provider of ATMs, debit terminals, and prepaid phone and cash cards, acquired Australian-based Customers Ltd. for $176 million. Both companies have similar core competencies. Once...
March 22, 2012
Relief and restructuring aid for Royal Mail Group approved
The European Commission has approved the United Kingdom’s relief and restructuring aid for Royal Mail Group. The relief is for Royal Mail Group’s pension costs, which the Commission found was...
February 15, 2012
Enforcers Consideration of Compliance Programs in Europe: Are 2011 Initiatives...
Nathalie Jalabert-Doury, Gillian Sproul, Feb 14, 2012 In Europe, compliance programs have been implemented by companies for many years. However, few competition authorities had clarified how they viewed these compliance...
February 15, 2012
Why the U.K.’s New Approach to Competition Compliance Makes for...
Andreas Stephan, Feb 14, 2012 There is still much to do in the United Kingdom to champion compliance so as to strengthen competition enforcement and deterrence. The OFT has taken...
February 10, 2012
OFT seeks evidence on prices and supply in remote communities...
The Office of Fair Trading is calling for evidence from the public in its review of prices and supply in remote communities throughout the United Kingdom. The OFT seeks to...
February 10, 2012
Commission approves Saria acquisitions in animal by-product market
The European Commission has approved Saria’s acquisition of sole control over Quintet and Bioiberica, as well as its acquisition of joint control over Teeuwissen and Jagero II. Saria manufactures products...
February 07, 2012
mopay and paymentez Forge Strategic Mobile Payments Partnership
mopay, a global leader in innovative payment solutions for online merchants, today announced a strategic partnership with paymentez, the leading Latin American alternative payments network based in Brazil. mopay will...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
The Global Digital Shopping Index: United Kingdom Edition examines how consumers’ shopping habits and preferences in the country are shifting amid historic social and economic change. It reveals how merchants can develop digital strategies to navigate the shifting retail landscape in the U.K. The report, a PYMNTS and Cybersource collaboration, is based on a survey of 2,044 consumers and 561 merchants in the U.K. and is part of a larger series examining four key markets around the world.