The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned motor finance firms to put away some cash as it continues its investigation into the sector.
03.04.2024 - 08:05 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The competition investigation that is spooking the UK’s fabled TV drama industry looks set to rumble on until at least the end of the year.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has extended the probe into production company cartel behavior by six months and will implement “further investigatory steps and assessment of evidence” between now and October, according to an update posted by the authority. No assumption is being made at this stage that there has been a breach of competition law, we understand, although the CMA continues to say it has “reasonable grounds to suspect one or more breaches.”
No more information was forthcoming about the “investigatory steps” but Deadline is told the CMA has collected a huge amount of evidence and is currently sifting through, while it could still demand more information. For the most part, those being investigated are understood to have been unaware of the extension until it was posted by the CMA. The authority faces no deadlines for these cases and timelines tend to vary, we are told.
The investigation was launched last October into BBC Studios, ITV Studios, Hartswood Films, Hat Trick Productions, Red Planet Pictures, Sister and Tiger Aspect, a collective that has produced some of the biggest British hits of past decades including Sherlock, Dracula, Derry Girls, Death in Paradise, Chernobyl and This is Going to Hurt. Filed under ‘Civil Cartels,’ the investigation is digging into whether production companies have been colluding by informally fixing freelancers’ wage rates. Under UK competition law, this behavior is forbidden and rates either need to be negotiated independently or fixed through formal collective bargaining processes. Concurrent with the
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned motor finance firms to put away some cash as it continues its investigation into the sector.
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Detectives are this afternoon questioning a man on suspicion of murder after human remains were found in a Salford nature reserve.
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Police believe a 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed after an 'altercation' in Moss Side.
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Katie Price has spoken out about taking Gareth Gates' virginity while she was six months pregnant with her eldest son, Harvey. The former glamour model discussed the event on the Anything Goes with James English podcast.
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