With the Competition and Market Authority’s Retail Banking Market Investigation due to conclude by August 2016, this is an ideal opportunity to assess the potential impact of the report. This lecture will outline the findings of the investigation, the intended effect of the remedies, and take a wider look at the future for the retail (more…)

Behavioural economics has become a key part of policy-making in recent years, and a number of UK regulators have drawn on its insights in their regulatory decisions. There has particularly been a focus on customer signalling and the guidance of customer behaviour, especially in light of both the retail banking and energy market CMA investigations. (more…)

The CMA’s final report in June represented a significant moment of change for how the energy market works, with a series of remedies to increase competition and customer engagement across the industry. This lecture will outline what the impact of the CMA’s remedies will be, and how the future regulatory landscape will look. Speaker: Dermot (more…)

The water industry is entering an exciting period of change, with non-domestic competition arriving in 2017 and ongoing talk of domestic competition for 2020. Alongside this upstream competition remains a key focus for Ofwat over the next few years. This lecture will explore how these changes will affect the way the industry works, and what (more…)

The telecoms market is in a period of transition both in the UK and across Europe, with the Ofcom Strategic Review and wider concerns around consolidation and convergence prompting a change in policy towards the industry. With the growing importance of digital in the modern world this is a critical issue for continued success in (more…)

How is Blockchain technology liberating individuals and communities across the developing world? What are the new trends, products, ideas in the sharing economies realm, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO’s), other online and intentionated communities? Learn from the founders and directors, two truly global eminences, of some of the world’s largest political, non-governmental organizations that provide services (more…)