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Whistleblowers Cartels UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

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Rewarding Whistleblowers Will Only be Effective as Part of a Wider Package of Reforms

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Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Director Nick Ephgrave has consistently touted the benefits of offering financial rewards to whistleblowers. With the FCA also considering its position on financial incentivisation, and a supportive...more

Hogan Lovells

Individuals as Whistleblowers

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Cartels are by their nature hard to uncover and regulators rely – to a large part – on appealing to companies’ wallets. Immunity and leniency policies, by which regulators offer to whistleblowing companies full immunity or...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK Antitrust Authority Seeks Powers to Increase Merger Scrutiny, Issue Sectoral Interim Regulations and Weaken Judicial...

On 21 February 2019, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), at the U.K. government’s request, set out ‘wide-ranging and radical’ proposals to reshape U.K. competition enforcement and consumer protection regime....more

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Snitches get……massive cash rewards

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On Monday 20 March 2017, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced a campaign to encourage whistle-blowers to come forward and expose cartels. The campaign is going to target social media and key websites. ...more

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EU antitrust enforcement 2.0 – European Commission raises concerns about algorithms and encourages individual whistleblowers

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The European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has emphasised two important developments for EU antitrust enforcement, which have emerged from technological advancements: The Commission is taking proactive...more

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