UBS testet digitale Assistenten in der Vermögensverwaltung

FAZ, hier.

FCA welcomes firms working on crypto-assets to latest sandbox cohort

FinExtra, here. 

Report on the impact of Fintech on incumbent credit institutions' business models

EBA, here. 

Report on prudential risks and opportunities arising for institutions from FinTech

EBA, here. 

AT&T promised lower prices after Time Warner merger—it’s raising them instead

ArsTechnica, here.

Statement of FTC Chairman Joe Simons Regarding Federal Court Ruling in FTC v. AbbVie

FTC, here.
Ruling here.

Amazon Ran an die Pille

SZ, hier.

IPG Confirms $2.3 Billion Deal to Acquire Data Marketing Company Acxiom

AdWeek, here.

Stand und Entwicklung der Unternehmenskonzentration in Deutschland

Monopolkommission, hier.

Algorithmen und Kollusion

Monopolkommission, hier.

Big Business Keeps Winning at the Supreme Court

The Atlantic, here. 

Facebook Faces Broadened Federal Investigations Over Data and Privacy

NYTimes, here. 

The Paradox of Technological Déjà Vu

Digitopoly, here. 

La idea de misión

M. Mazzucato, aquì.

ÉCONOMIE AUGMENTÉE. NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES.

Autorit de la concurrence, ici. 

Tech for TechLawyers: The Hardware

N. Brown, Video here. 

Jack Ma Embraces Blockchain for Ant But Warns of Bitcoin Bubble

Bloomberg, here. 

Festrede Andreas Mundt zur 53. Theodor Heuss Preisverleihung

Hier. 

Platforms and personal data processing : the potential for achieving systemic transparency

P.-O. Dehaye, I. Hahn, G. Jargalsaikhan, here.  J

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The state of the Internet in France

Arcep, here. 

Políticas de competencia para una economía digital: el marco regulatorio e institucional y el contexto internacional

G. Núñez, J. De Furquim, M. Pereira, here. 

A Nobel-winning economist’s guide to taming tech monopolies

Quartz, here. 

CMA launches enforcement action against hotel booking sites

CMA, here. 

Data in the payments industry

PSR, Discussion paper, here. 

How the Disney-Fox Deal Got DOJ’s Greenlight Quicker Than Expected

Variety, here. 

With Amex Ruling, Modern IO Theory Makes Important Inroads with SCOTUS

R. Picker, here. 

The future of banking is open

PWC, ODI, here. 

Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch, here. 

The seven-year legal fight between Apple and Samsung over smartphone patents has ended with a whimper

NYTimes, here. 

"Open Banking is a revolution for the whole industry"

J. Basini, here. 

The Effect of Institutional Ownership Types On Innovation and Competition

P. Borochin, J. Yang, R. Zhang, here. 

Your Phone Is Listening—Literally Listening—to Your TV

K. Waddell, here. 

The internet: to regulate or not to regulate?

UK Parliament, Witnesses here. 

When the Econometrician Shrugged: Identifying and Plugging Gaps in the Consumer Welfare Standard

K. Caves, H. Singer, here. 

The 17 years since the Microsoft antitrust case taught us that regulation can spur innovation

Quartz, here. 

The German cement cartel – a landmark decision for private damages actions

CoRe Blog, here. 

Wettbewerbshüter warnen vor automatisierten Preisabsprachen

WiWo, hier. 

Facebook offers fresh detail about its ties to dozens of outside companies in more than 700 pages of new data turned over to Congress

Washington Post, here. 

Artificial Intelligence and the 'Good Society': The US, EU, and UK Approach

C. Cath et al., here. 

The State of Artificial Intelligence in 2018: A Good Old Fashioned Report

N. Benaich, I. Hogarth, here. 

Young generation tempted by Amazon bank-like services

Computerweekly, here. 

Government response to House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Select Committee’s Report on AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able?

UK Gov, here. 

Gütekriterien für algorithmische Prozesse

N. Rohde, hier. 

Companies under strain from GDPR requests

FT, here. 

How regulators can prevent excessive concentration online

The Economist, here and here.

Can Technology Be Stopped?

BBC Radio 4, Podcast here. 

Oracle to locate European fintech hub in Brussels

FinExtra, here. 

Before “After Consumer Welfare” -- A Response To Professor Wu

D. Melamed, N. Petit, here. 

Line to launch cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore

FT, here. 

The first "known" financial technology

Morgan Museum, NYC

(Small) Variations on a Theme: This blog's author Lund Presentation on "FinTech, TechFin, Competitive Markets: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?", here. 

Tommaso Valletti: “Gigantes tecnológicas devem ser mais investigadas”

Jornal Economico, aqui.

Concentrations: la Commission ouvre une enquête approfondie sur le projet d'acquisition de l'activité nylon de Solvay par BASF

Ce, ici.

Künstliche Intelligenz: Bundestag-Enquete soll Risiken und Chancen von KI ausloten

Heise.de, hier.

Strategic Review of Retail Banking Business Models

FCA, here.

The state of the Internet in France

Arcep, here.

Commerzbank ist offen für Apple – „Google Pay ist für uns nur der Anfang“

Handelsblatt, here.

Deceived by Design

Norwegian consumer protection agency, here.

Let’s make private data into a public good

M. Mazzucato, here.

Experian secures FCA accreditation to supply Open Banking and PSD2 services

FinExtra, here.

Amazon, the Brand Buster

NYTimes, here.

Der Marktmachttransfer bei digitalen Plattformen: zur Anwendung von Art 102 AEUV auf mehrseitige Märkte in der Internetökonomie

S. Holzweber, hier.

Data-Driven Mergers under EU Competition Law

A. Chirita, here.

EU Competition Law Enforcement vis-à-vis Exploitative Conducts in the Data Economy: Exploring the Terra Incognita

M. Botta and K. Wiedemann, here.

Erster DSGVO-Bescheid: Zugang zu alten Bankdaten muss gratis sein

Der Standard, hier.

FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra at the EU Digital Clearing House

FinTech,TechFin, Competitive Markets: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

S. Vezzoso (this blog’s author), presentation here. Please email me if you have any comment.

On The Future Of A PayPal-Owned Hyperwallet

Pymnts, here.

Bias detectives: the researchers striving to make algorithms fair

Nature, here.

Potential Antitrust Issues Lurking in Blockchain Technology

Orrick, here.

What happens if Apple loses its Supreme Court App Store antitrust appeal?

The Verge, here.

Big Tech’s Big-Time, Big-Scale Problem

G. Manne, J. Hurwitz, here.

Opinion of the European Banking Authority on the implementation of the RTS on SCA and CSC

EBA, here.
"In the event that the ASPSP does not have a system that enables it to adequately respond to the confirmation request sent by the provider initiating the payment, then the ASPSP should give PISPs the possibility of accessing the necessary data themselves, so as to allow them to make their own judgements on the sufficient availability of funds."

"Given that PSD2 does not limit the types of payment transactions a PISP is allowed to offer, and given the provisions in Articles 4(15) and 66(1) of PSD2 in particular, the EBA would like to clarify that a PISP has the right to initiate the same transactions that the ASPSP offers to its own PSUs, such as instant payments, batch payments, international payments, recurring transactions, payments set by national schemes and future-dated payments."

“ TECHNOPOLY” and what to do about it: Reform, Redress and Regulation

ResPublica, here. 

The regulatory mistakes that let Facebook and Google buy ad dominance

Axios, here. 

Super Platforms, Big Data, and the Competition Law: The Japanese Approach in Contrast with the US and the EU

T. Takigawa, here. 

Lessons from the Recent Commission’s Decision on Google. To Favour Oneself or Not, That is the Question

B. Mäihäniemi, here. 

Virtual Competition

N. Colombo, here. 

The Sound and Fury of Patent Activity

R. Feldman, M. Lemley, here. 

Amazon—An Infrastructure Service and Its Challenge to Current Antitrust Law

L. Khan, here (pp. 99 ff.), here. 

Digital Dominance

Edited by Martin Moore and Damian Tambini, here. 

‘Direct’ and ‘indirect’ effects of enforcement

DotEcon for CMA, here. 

No Fair Hearing for the DoJ in the AT&T-Time Warner Decision

C. Sagers, here. 

Data Nationalization in the Shadow of Social Credit Systems

F. Pasquale, here. 

Report on Competition Policy 2017

EC, here. 

Projet conjoint sur les algorithmes et leurs enjeux pour l'application du droit de la concurrence

Autorité de la concurrence, Bundeskartellamt, ici. 

Supreme Court to review Apple app store commissions case

FT, here. 

Egyptian Competition Authority imposes interim measures on FIFA for World Cup TV rights

Egypttoday.com, here. 

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs: Structured Dialogue with Margrethe Vestager

Video, here (from 15:17:30).

15:40:09 "the banking sector is developing because of FinTech, new ways of doing payments, new ways of doing banking and that will push the banking sector into restructuring"..."as I see it...the banking sector is in much better shape now than it was just a few years ago"

U.S. top court mulls Apple's App Store commissions in antitrust case

Reuters, here. 

Cryptocurrencies: looking beyond the hype

BIS, here.

Alexis Bledel, Kurt Russell, Beau Knapp to Star in Money Laundering Thriller 'Crypto'

Hollywood Reporter, here. 

CYBG plays up tech advantages in £1.7 billion takeover deal for Virgin Money

FinExtra, here. 

Salesforce deepens data sharing partnership with Google

TechCrunch, here. 

Diana Moss and Joshua Wright discuss AT&T-Time Warner Merger

C-SPAN, Video here. 

THE COURT’S DECISION TO LET AT&T AND TIME WARNER MERGE IS RIDICULOUSLY BAD

TheVerge, here. 

Economics and Antitrust

ABA Antitrust, Spring 2018, here. 

A community-driven project has proposed a model privacy bill for India that puts citizens first

Scroll.in, here. 

The Blockchain: A Data Structure With a Weird Cult Attached

D. Gerard, here. 

D’Enron aux fintech en passant par les subprimes : peut-on sanctionner ex post les abus de marché ?

F. Marty, ici. 

French media plan to meet with government over Google-GDPR concerns

Digiday, here.