All posts belonging to the CMA tag can be found in the list below.
September gave the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and SecuTix a chance to reflect on one of the success stories of the year – the inaugural edition of The Hundred, a tournament that had bee...
Tags: China, CMA, Live Nation, OCESA, StubHub, The Hundred, TheTicketingBusiness, Viagogo, Winter OlympicsJonathan Brown, chief executive of the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers (STAR), believes the recent report from the UK Competition Markets Authority (CMA) shows that the body is “frustrated...
Tags: CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, Legal, Secondary Ticket Resellers, STAR, UK GovernmentViagogo has been given the green light to complete its takeover of StubHub after a deal was agreed for the sale of the latter’s international business to a venture capital group. The UK’s Comp...
Tags: CMA, Digital Fuel, M&A, ViagogoViagogo had over 1,000 tickets on its site for TRNSMT festival listed by mystery traders that had never been purchased, an investigation has revealed. Touts had listed 1,129 tickets that had not...
Tags: CMA, TRNSMT, ViagogoThe UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has called for changes to the law and existing regulations surrounding ticket resale platforms, with “substantial fines” if companies fail to comp...
Tags: CMA, StubHub, ViagogoThe UK Government is looking to assist start-ups in taking on the tech giants through new pro-competition rules backed by a powerful watchdog. The Digital Markets Unit (DMU) will be given the powe...
Tags: CMA, DMU, start-up, TechnologyThe $4.05bn (£3bn/€3.4bn) merger between Viagogo and StubHub looks set to be approved after a preliminary deal was reached with the UK competition watchdog. The Competition and Markets Authorit...
Tags: CMA, M&A, Merger, StubHub, ViagogoStubHub has welcomed the news that its proposed merger with fellow resale giant Viagogo is back on track after the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) confirmed strict parameters for its appro...
Tags: CMA, Fanfair Alliance, StubHub, ViagogoThe UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) confirmed today (Tuesday) that Viagogo must sell all of StubHub’s business outside North America to satisfy the regulator’s concerns. As repo...
Tags: CMA, StubHub, ViagogoStubHub’s co-founder Jeff Fluhr has urged the UK’s competition watchdog to force Viagogo to fully divest the StubHub business that it acquired earlier this year in a $4.05bn deal. In a letter t...
Tags: CMA, Jeff Fluhr, StubHub, Viagogo
