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Apple, Google threaten payments competition, Dutch antitrust watchdog says

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 01 Dec 2020 04:52
  • 05 Feb 2021 08:49
Apple, Google and other powerful tech platforms have been warned by the Dutch antitrust authority not to shut competing payment services out of their ecosystems, as the regulator called for a new EU law to mandate that access alongside changes to banking rules.
"There is a risk that, although they

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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