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

One of the more damaging decisions taken in the last parliament was the CMA’s decision to block Microsoft’s $75bn acquisition of video-games maker Activision Blizzard. (The regulator approved ...

The government has sent a “clear message” to UK regulators by ousting the chair of competition watchdog, in what lawyers described as the “most overtly political” regulatory intervention of recent ...

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 ...

The CMA oversees deal-making and briefly paused the high-profile merger of Microsoft and gaming giant Activision-Blizzard. Mr Bokkerink, a former senior partner at one of the world's biggest ...

The CMA has been criticised by some for taking an overtly interventionist approach on matters such as Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard and a probe into supermarket loyalty schemes.

The CMA has damaged business with its trigger-happy approach to blocking mergers and acquisitions. Forcing out the chair is a ...

I have been on the panel for a number of high-profile merger reviews: Microsoft/Activision, Virgin/O2 and J Sainsbury/Asda included. I do not speak for the CMA and so these are my views alone.

as the CMA has in recent years been attacked for attempting to halt a wide range of deals. This includes an effort to block Microsoft’s $69bn (£56bn) takeover of gaming company Activision in ...

the CMA has not exactly been beyond reproach. On one of its biggest tests – assessing the merits of Microsoft’s $69 billion tie-up with “Call of Duty” gaming giant Activision Blizzard ...

The chairman of Britain’s competition regulator has been ousted and replaced with a veteran Amazon executive as Donald Trump ...

In 2023, the CMA blocked Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of video game company Activision Blizzard. Microsoft President Brad Smith said Britain was "bad for business", before the regulator backed ...