Competition plays a vital role in supporting economic growth and so the CMA rightly believes that it can support growth ...

The CMA is among regulators which have faced demands from the Government to help its ambitions to accelerate economic growth.

The mood has changed and Gurr’s appointment is not a coincidence, given how hard US companies have grumbled behind the scenes about the CMA’s attitude. Even one former CMA official says it lost some ...

The Business Secretary has ordered the under-pressure competition watchdog to be “less risk-averse” as the Government ...

The now-retired Activision CEO Bobby Kotick did not think much of his rival at Electronic Arts, according to a new interview.

In the same year, the CMA also tried to block Microsoft’s acquisition of gaming company Activision. In a blistering response, Microsoft President Brad Smith replied that Britain was “bad for ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) provisional ...

Marcus Bokkerink, who joined the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in 2022 ... most notably the tie-up between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard in 2023. It later approved the deal after ...

(Alliance News) - The UK competition watchdog has said it plans to speed up its decisions on deals, amid pressure from the government for the regulator to be less risk averse. The Competition & ...