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A Metadata Monopoly – Unwrapping Gracenote’s Anticompetitive Clauses

Emily Hatchett Dicembre 16, 2024 Nessun commento

Key Points Gracenote – a provider of entertainment metadata to companies including streaming service providers and automakers – may be engaging in anticompetitive conduct by imposing exclusivity requirements on customers [...]

DoorDash’s Algorithm: A Recipe for Higher Prices

Wanyi Wang Novembre 14, 2024 Nessun commento

Fideres examines the hidden price of dining out.

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Crypto ETFs: Simple Concept, Big Issues

Robert Chang Ottobre 17, 2024 Nessun commento

Crypto ETFs present unique risks to investors. Reliance on risky liquidity providers and market concentration could trigger instability, price distortions, and investor vulnerability.

Skipping The Flight Fantastic

Emily Hatchett Ottobre 4, 2024 Nessun commento

How US airlines abuse their market power around airport hubs to overcharge consumers.

Are Piano Buyers Being Played?

Ludovica Paradisi Giugno 24, 2024 Nessun commento

Fideres's investigation finds that Steinway’s dominance in the market for professional grand pianos might be attributable to anticompetitive deals with schools, concert halls, and artists.

Goldman – Three Years On

Per Axelson Giugno 17, 2024 Nessun commento

In an earlier publication, Fideres analyzed how defendants’ strategies at the 10b5 class certification stage developed following the 2021 and 2023 Goldman rulings. We have extended this analysis to cover [...]

Illegal Moat, Fragile Castle – A Look Into Coinbase’s Anticompetitive Practices

Gabriele Bortolotti Marzo 4, 2024 Nessun commento

Key Points In June 2023, the SEC published a complaint against Coinbase, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange that controls 76% of the market, alleging it violated both the Exchange Act as [...]

After Goldman – Trouble Getting to Class

Steffen Hennig Dicembre 18, 2023 Nessun commento

Key Points Fideres has analyzed a sample of 10b-5 filings to determine the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2021 Goldman ruling. We find that, since the ruling, the percentage of 10b-5 [...]

Jingle Bills, Jingle Bills, Jingle All The Way

Paul Vella Dicembre 12, 2023 Nessun commento

Key Points Fideres’s original investigation uncovers widespread discriminatory conduct in the market for household gas/electricity – affecting 2 million minority households. This Christmas season, households across the UK will be [...]

Goodwill Hunting

Nicolas Tschütscher Novembre 8, 2023 Nessun commento

How forced bank bail-outs in early 2023 have resulted in fantastic gains for the acquirers.

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