Thursday, 1 April 2021

From Open Banking to Open Finance? UK developments

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Following the possibility provided by PSD2 of opening up banking data for third-party access, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority...
Friday, 26 March 2021

Online reviews in numbers – the Trustpilot Transparency Report 2021

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Recently, Trustpilot published, for the first time, its Transparency Report ( here ). This report concerns Trustpilot's activity in 2020...
Monday, 22 March 2021

German study finds no evidence of personalised pricing: does it mean it's really not an issue?

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In our previous post we reported about a recent study published by BEUC containing important recommendations about the future of consumer pr...

New study on consumer protection in the digital age: should the burden of proof in the UCPD be reversed?

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Earlier this month a very interesting report by Natali Helberger, Orla Lynskey, Hans-W. Micklitz, Peter Rott, Marijn Sax and Joanna Strychar...
Sunday, 21 March 2021

Third-party funding of collective actions: is it all that bad?

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Third-party litigation funding refers to an arrangement whereby a third party, who has no other connection to the litigation, finances some ...
Friday, 19 March 2021

Somber CJEU case on package travel - Kuoni Travel (C-578/19)

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(trigger warning sexual violence)   Yesterday, the CJEU issued a judgment in the Kuoni Travel case ( C-578/19 ), in which the Supreme Court ...
Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Facilitating Sustainable Consumption through Private Law - call for papers

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Dr Joasia Luzak (University of Exeter) and Prof Marco Loos (University of Amsterdam) are guest editors of a special issue of an open access ...

A digital Euro?

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Amid the rapid digitalization of our lives accelerated by the current pandemic, the European Central Bank (ECB) in cooperation with the Euro...
Monday, 15 March 2021

Covid-19's impact on consumer behaviour patterns

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Last week the Commission published the new Key Consumer 2020 data following from the Consumer Scoreboard 2020 , which documents the changes...
Wednesday, 10 March 2021

New energy labels start rolling out

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 Since 1 March, a number of household appliances need to be labelled according to a new scale. The change is, in essence, an update of the p...