- Andreas Dombret: Finding the right measure of consolidation in the banking sector
30 April 2018
Speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank until 30 April 2018, at the Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt am Main, 24 April 2018.The views expressed…
- Leila Matroos-Lasten: Central banks should emerge as innovation leaders
Speech · 29 June 2018
Opening speech delivered by Mrs Leila Matroos-Lasten, Acting President of the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, on the occasion of the Bridging Financial Innovation and Regulation Seminar…
- Philip R Lane: Competition policy and central banking
Speech · 24 January 2019
Remarks by Mr Philip R Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the European Movement Ireland and Central Bank of Ireland Joint Dinner in honour of Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, Dublin…
- Understanding the challenges for infrastructure finance
Report · 26 August 2014
BIS Working Papers | No 454 | 26 August 2014by Torsten EhlersPDF full text (336kb) | 29 pagesWhat is holding back infrastructure investment, even though real long-term interest rates are low and the…
- Navi: Network Analytics and Visualisation
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Navi (short for "Network Analytics and Visualisation") is a self-service platform for advanced visualisations and network analytics. It supports the analysis of complex data networks using graph…
- The Adoption of Computational Antitrust by Agencies: 2nd Annual Report
Report · 14 June 2023
In the first quarter of 2023, the Stanford Computational Antitrust project team invited the partnering antitrust agencies to share their advances in implementing computational tools. Here are the 26…
- The CMA DaTA unit – we’re growing!
Solution · 18 May 2019
The UK CMA has built its own data science platform, which it uses in its various functions, to sort and analyse large amounts of data. The tool applies natural language processing techniques, and has…
- Technology-motivated Acquisitions and the Real Option Portfolio of Non-tech Firms
Report · 9 January 2025
We are interested in "access to technology" acquisitions of non-tech firms and propose a novel approach to identify such acquisitions, which we call technologymotivated acquisitions (TMA). Studying a…
- High Risk or Low Cost – Dichotomous Choices of R&D Strategy by Startups in Markets for Technology
22 January 2019
Incumbent firms often acquire startups in pursuit of new technologies. While much attention is focused on startups producing radical innovations, in reality incumbent firms purchase technologies that…
- Bank Technology M&As and Market Valuation: Lessons from the COVID-19 Shock
14 April 2025
We study listed banks in 27 OECD countries that executed technology M&As over the two decades spanning 1998-2019 and assess their market performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings reveal…
- Talking to Dan Tarullo about bank mergers, stress tests, and supervision
News · 9 August 2023
The featured text provides a detailed summary of a conversation with Dan Tarullo, a former Federal Reserve Governor, regarding the contemporary landscape of bank mergers, capital requirements, and…
- Can Antitrust Keep Up?: Competition policy in high-tech markets
Report · 1 December 2001
The Microsoft antitrust case of 2001 marked a pivotal moment in American legal history, forcing a reconciliation between century-old competition laws and the lightning-fast evolution of…
- The future of tech antitrust in the Biden administration
Event · 1 December 2020
The growth of tech companies has generated attention from antitrust agencies and legislatures throughout the world, with lawmakers calling for sweeping antitrust reforms. Critics contend that tech…
- Does tech need a regulatory antitrust alternative after the Microsoft-Activision decision?
News · 24 July 2023
This article examines the recent legal developments surrounding the Microsoft/Activision merger and their implications for antitrust enforcement in the tech sector. It explains that the U.S. Federal…
- FCA and US CFTC sign Arrangement to collaborate on FinTech innovation
News · 19 February 2018
In 2018, the FCA and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) signed a landmark cooperation arrangement to foster cross-border FinTech innovation. This agreement, the first of its kind…
- FCA publishes terms of reference for asset management market study
News · 18 November 2015
In November 2015, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched a comprehensive market study into the asset management industry to evaluate whether competition was working effectively for both…
- Competition Policy in Financial Markets – the view from the regulators
Speech · 21 June 2016
In a 2016 address at the Centre for Competition Policy, Mary Starks, then the FCA’s Director of Competition, detailed the regulator's strategic transition from a traditional "firm-by-firm"…
- Innovation and improving outcomes
Speech · 15 June 2016
In this 2016 address, Christopher Woolard, the FCA’s Director of Strategy and Competition, outlines how the regulator is moving beyond traditional oversight to actively foster disruptive innovation…
- NLP for large data processing through AWS
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The UK CMA has built its own data science platform, which it uses in its various functions, to sort and analyse large amounts of data. The tool applies natural language processing techniques, and has…