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Highlights from The Economist’s Antitrust Summit 2026
The Economist’s Antitrust Summit 2026, held on 26 February 2026 in City Hall, Westminster, brought together a formidable gathering of competition authority heads, senior regulators, practitioners, and industry representatives to take stock of the evolving global competition landscape. Co-chaired by Tamzin Booth, Editorial Director (B2B) at The Economist Group, and Jan Piotrowski, Finance and Economics […]
Investigating the UK’s mobile ecosystems’ commitments
The UK has taken its next steps in enforcing the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA), the relatively new ex ante law brought in to impose rules in the digital sector. The law gives the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) the power to designate dominant firms as having Strategic Market Status (SMS) in […]
The CMA Shows Its Hand: Four Conduct Requirements for Google
The Competition and Markets Authority has published its first proposed conduct requirements under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, marking a milestone in UK digital markets regulation. Following Google’s Strategic Market Status designation in October 2025, the CMA has issued four consultations addressing distinct concerns within Google’s general search services ecosystem. These proposals […]
SCiDA’s Digital Markets Regulation Review of 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, the SCiDA (Shaping Competition in the Digital Age) project reflects on a year of remarkable academic output, policy engagement, and collaborative research that has shaped discourse around digital markets regulation across Europe and beyond. Our team has grown and evolved, our research has deepened, and our contributions to the […]
TEST SCiDA 2026 Conference on Shaping Competition in the Digital Age: Towards Best Practices
Call for Abstracts: We invite submissions from scholars for a conference on the shaping of competition in the digital age, taking place on 26-27 May 2026 in Düsseldorf, Germany. We are particularly looking forward to contributions that focus on the regulatory regimes in the EU (Digital Markets Act), the UK (Digital Markets Competition & Consumers […]
Conference Debrief – Highlights from the Competition Law & Artificial Intelligence Summit – 2nd Annual
Event was hosted by Thought Leaders 4 Competition in London The Competition Law & Artificial Intelligence Summit – 2nd Annual, held on 2 December 2025 at Carpenters’ Hall, right in the heart of London, brought together competition authorities, legal practitioners, and industry experts to explore the critical intersection of AI and competition law. With artificial […]
Kent v Apple judgment: Implications for digital markets and UK Class Actions
On 23 October 2025, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) delivered a landmark judgment in Dr Rachel Kent v Apple Inc. [2025] CAT 67, finding Apple liable for multiple abuses of dominance in relation to its App Store operations. The unanimous decision, spanning 396 pages, is a major development in cases concerning digital markets in […]
The CMA Designates Apple and Google’s Mobile Platforms with Strategic Market Status: A Comprehensive Analysis
On 22 October 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority issued two landmark decisions that will reshape the UK’s mobile ecosystem for years to come. Following the CMA’s first designation decision on 10 October 2025 designating Google Search with Strategic Market Status (read about it in our blog here), the CMA designated both Apple and Google […]
SCiDA 2026 Conference on Shaping Competition in the Digital Age: Towards Best Practices
Call for Abstracts: We invite submissions from scholars for a conference on the shaping of competition in the digital age, taking place on 26-27 May 2026 in Düsseldorf, Germany. We are particularly looking forward to contributions that focus on the regulatory regimes in the EU (Digital Markets Act), the UK (Digital Markets Competition & Consumers […]