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Biden’s Competition EO Impacts Banks and the Financial Services Industry

On July 9, 2021, President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” The EO affirms that it is the administration’s policy “to enforce the antitrust laws to combat the excessive concentration of industry, the abuses of market power, and the harmful effects of monopoly and monopsony.” While certain portions … Continue Reading

Why Antitrust Practitioners Should be Interested in Espionage…

The Five Eyes Alliance has its origins in cooperation between US and UK intelligence agencies during the Second World War.  It solidified into the secret relationship between the intelligence agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK and US during the Cold War.  Its soubriquet “Five Eyes” came from the protective marking on intelligence material shared … Continue Reading
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