Are smart contracts to outsmart competition rules?
Digital economy has been posing a massive challenge for competition enforcers, who are often led to stretch analogue-world rules in an attempt to capture brand new business dimensions.
Coordination and information exchanges in financial markets. What comes first the chicken or the egg?
Intervention by competition authorities in financial markets is a complex and delicate task, given that financial service providers act not only as competitors but also as counterparties, intermediaries, and cooperation partners.
Has the Spanish Competition Authority found a way out of project finance antitrust maze?
Project finance has fallen under the spotlight of competition authorities as traditional antitrust concerns over competitors’ joining forces have met with increasing worries about financial customers suffering from information asymmetries.
Has the Commission let slip the watchdogs of war?
E-commerce is no longer the last frontier of antitrust law, but rather the battlefield of a war which is already being fought on many fronts.