What Does the CMA Do? A Guide to the UK’s Competition Regulator
The CMA enforces UK competition law, controls mergers, investigates markets and regulates digital platforms. Guide to CMA powers, penalties and the new SMS regime.
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Ofcom’s Plan of Work 2026/27: What It Means for Telecoms Investment and Transactions
Ofcom’s Plan of Work 2026/27 shapes telecoms investment, altnet consolidation and compliance. Analysis of what it means for operators and dealmakers.
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UK Fibre Consolidation: What the Nexfibre Deal, the SSP and the Access Review Mean for Transactions
The Nexfibre-Netomnia deal, the government Statement of Strategic Priorities and Ofcom Telecoms Access Review 2026-31 together set the framework for UK fibre infrastructure transactions. What advisors and investors need to know about deal structuring in a consolidating market.
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New UK foreign investment law to impact telecoms, digital and data transactions
Summary By the end of 2021, many corporate transactions in the communications, data infrastructure, artificial intelligence, satellite and space technologies sectors (and some others) will be subject to mandatory notification to, and national security review by, the UK government. Implementation timetable The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (“Act“) became part of UK law on…
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US restrictions sound death knell for Huawei?
This article was published in August 2020 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. The US has updated its rules to prevent Huawei’s access to commercially available chips that use US technology in a move that could sound the death…
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UK excludes Huawei from 5G
UK excludes Huawei from 5G and broadband networks: the UK Government has announced a U-turn on Huawei’s involvement in 5G networks, following a meeting of the National Security Council, that will delay 5G rollout by two to three years and increase costs by up to £2 billion.
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Goodbye from Watching the Connectives
To all my readers, thank you and goodbye. This blog is now an ex-blog.
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UK’s Financial Conduct Authority issues guidance on cloud
On 7 July 2016, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued finalised guidance for authorised UK financial institutions use of cloud services. In a marked contrast to some other jurisdictions’ approach, this guidance is issued against a policy backdrop of FCA’s ‘Project Innovate’ which is a initiative to foster innovation and competition. The FCA say:
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Governing development finance organisations: measuring development impact
Governance is important for both private and public sector organisations. For development finance organisations (such as IFC, CDC, Africa Development Bank and Asia Development Bank) which are publicly funded and invest in developing countries it is critical. A key part of governance is measuring the development impact that they have through setting goals and measuring the…
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Hong Kong privacy regulator recognises ISO/IEC 27018
This guest post is written by @matthew1hunter and @aisling1odwyer. Regular readers of this blog will know we have been tracking the impact of ISO/IEC 27018:2014 –Code of practice for protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds acting as PII processors (ISO/IEC 27018). We see this as the go-to standard for customers of public…
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Korea leads the world with cloud law encouraging cloud use
This article was published in April 2015 and reflects the regulatory position at that time. For current guidance on this topic, contact Bratby Law or see our latest insights. On 3rd March 2015, Korea passed the world’s first cloud-specific law, with the stated aim of driving the adoption of cloud computing in Korea. But what…
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ISO 27018 – the international standard for protecting PII in the public cloud – Where are we now?
Since its release in August 2014, ISO 27018 is becoming well established as the “go to” standard to help cloud customers to comply with their privacy obligations when using public cloud services. Privacy regulators recognise and refer to the new standard. Cloud customers are using it in their RFP requirements and in their assessments of…
