April 02, 2013
What’s Behind Bitcoin’s All Time High?
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but it does however grow in the virtual world of the bitcoin. The mysterious decentralized currency that the majority of consumers are still trying to...
April 01, 2013
Australia: New eight-year low for M&A
According to recently collected data, Australia is facing an eight-year low for merger and acquisition activity. Reports say that Bloomberg has aggregated data and found that $9.43 billion in M&A...
March 31, 2013
Australia: Domestic booking increases seven-fold from latest airline deal
The partnership between Qantas and Emirates airlines has reportedly lead to what chief executive of Qantas Alan Joyce described as a nearly seven-fold jump in domestic bookings thanks to Emirates’...
March 28, 2013
The Increasing (Ab)use of Commitments in European Antitrust Law: Stockholm...
Stefano Grassani, Mar 28, 2013 If an “EU antitrust hot topic of the month” award were to be attributed for March 2013, the prize would certainly go to the issue...
March 28, 2013
Netherlands: Shares rise on news of $9.7B coffee co buyout
The spin-off coffee and tea company of Sara Lee Corp. has announced it is currently in negotiation talks to be bought out by investment firm JAB for $9.7 billion. DE...
March 27, 2013
Study: Mobile Payments Could Promote Savings And Security In Northern...
Storing money under a mattress may seem out-dated and fallible to some, however many rural households in Northern Ghana still use this method as a viable substitute for formal financial...
March 26, 2013
Global Antitrust: Does It Have Limits?
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Tad Lipsky (Latham) asks Global Antitrust: Does It Have Limits? ABSTRACT: Before 1985 there was only one mandatory suspensive premerger notification scheme of general applicability...
March 26, 2013
European Commission Extends Anti-Trust Investigation To Cover Isda
The European Commission has been working on a two-year-long anti-trust investigation speculating the market for credit default swaps. The Commission has recently extended their investigation to observe the activities of...
March 26, 2013
Shaping the ICN’s Next Years
Mar 26, 2013 CPI ICN Column edited by Maria Coppola (U.S. Federal Trade Commission) Shaping the ICN’s Next Years by Andreas Mundt (ICN, Bundeskartellamt) ICN Vice Char Andreas Mundt writes...