Consumer Commission
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Regulators yet to clear Paddy Power owner Flutter’s €12bn merger
- Retail & Services
- March 31, 2020, 09:40
Regulators in the Republic have yet to clear Paddy Power owner Flutter Entertainment’s €12 billion merger with The Stars Group while the UK’s competit(...)

Version 1 to buy digital consulting company Singlepoint
- Technology
- March 3, 2020, 09:02
Irish IT services firm Version 1 is to buy digital consulting company Singlepoint in what will be its eleventh acquisition. No financial details of (...)

Murdoch asked regulators to break up Google’s ad business
- Media & Marketing
- March 12, 2019, 08:21
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Australia asked the country’s regulators to push the break-up or effective separation of Google’s digital advertising busin(...)

Cliff Taylor: Proper bank regulation is about people and not process
- Opinion
- October 28, 2017, 05:00
When scandals or controversies come to light in this country, there are three reflex responses. The first is a call for an investigation, inquiry or e(...)

Australia’s craft brewers say big breweries are locking them out of pubs
- Agribusiness & Food
- July 14, 2017, 10:31
A decision by the competition watchdog to take no action against major breweries over tap contracts in pubs and clubs has been criticised by the craft(...)

Australian banks admit attempted cartel conduct
- Financial Services
- November 25, 2016, 20:41
Two of Australia’s biggest banks have agreed to pay a combined fine of 15 million Australian dollars (€10.5 million) after admitting to attempted car(...)

Bank shares suffer on new Government plan for sector
- Financial Services
- May 7, 2016, 01:00
Shares in Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB both fell in Dublin yesterday as the markets digested measures for the banking sector included in the new (...)

Bank shares weak as government plan unsettles investors
- Financial Services
- May 6, 2016, 08:36
Permanent TSB led banking shares lower in early trading in Dublin as investors digested the draft programme for government, which includes provisions (...)

State not to sell more than 25% of AIB by 2019
- Economy
- May 5, 2016, 20:08
The State will not sell off any more than 25 per cent of AIB before 2019, according to the draft programme for government. The plan also commits to a(...)