November 14, 2012
Spain: €88.5 m fine for shipping companies’ cartel
Spain has fined several shipping companies a total of €88.5 million for forming a cartel within the passenger and cargo markets between 2002 and 2010. The fines come after an...
November 14, 2012
The State of State-Federal Cooperation at the Antitrust Division: A...
Mark Tobey, Nov 14, 2012 Under the leadership of former Assistant Attorney General (“AAG”) Christine Varney and Acting Assistant Attorneys General Sharis Pozen and Joseph Wayland, the U.S. Department of...
November 14, 2012
Who Manages Cartels? The Role of Sales and Marketing Managers...
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John K. Ashton (Bangor Business School) and Andrew D. Pressey (Birmingham Business School) ask Who Manages Cartels? The Role of Sales and Marketing Managers within...
November 10, 2012
What President Obama’s Re-election Means For Interchange Fees
How will President Barack Obama’s reelection impact the payments industry? The answer is complex, of course. But among the most immediate and obvious effects is that the Dodd-Frank Act, and,...
November 09, 2012
Facebook Your Way To Financial Success
Fifty percent of web sales will occur through social media by 2015. That’s a pretty staggering statistic, but according to a new Gartner Research study, social commerce is just getting...
November 09, 2012
Bulgaria: Competition authority issues largest-ever fine at Hyundai dealers
Five Hyundai dealers in Bulgaria have been fined a record 16 million leva (more than 8 million euro) by the Commission for Production of Competition for limiting competition. The CPC’s...
November 08, 2012
Bahamas: Antitrust regulator close to finishing telecom investigation
The Bahamas’ competition authority has reported it is nearing the end of its investigation into the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s network outages that occurred last summer. The Utilities Regulation and Competition...
November 07, 2012
Mobile Payments’ Future Grid: Where Will Your Company Be?
It’s difficult to predict what the mobile payments world will look like six months from now. Guessing where it will go in 2018 is an even more daunting task. Yet...
November 07, 2012
E.U.: Commission okays stainless steel giants’ merger
The European Commission has approved of Finland’s stainless steel company Outokumpu to acquire the stainless steel division of ThyssenKrupp, called Inoxum, which is based in Germany, according to a press...