Digital terrestrial television (DTT), usually known as Freeview, has been one of the great universal service infrastructures of the UK media landscape. It provides free-to-air access to public service media and commercial TV through a simple, familiar and resilient technology. In recent years, though, viewing habits have changed fundamentally with audiences increasingly watching internet-delivered TV. […]
Control over AI becomes existential for European leaders European tech sovereignty agendas are moving rapidly from political rhetoric to concrete policy, with AI at its centre. Governments increasingly view AI not only as a driver of productivity and economic growth, but also as a strategic capability linked to national security. This, in turn, drives their concerns about Europe’s reliance on foreign providers across the AI stack – from advanced semiconductors and compute capacity to frontier […]
APAC leads the world in digital ID adoption For years, digital identity systems have been an aspirational goal for most of the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Today, these systems have been rolled out across the continent. In the last five years the region has moved away from pilots and towards focusing on utilisation rates and applications for these systems. Early adopters such […]
Six policy trends shaping Europe’s quantum industry For decades, the quantum sector has been the preserve of physicists and research laboratories. Today, quantum is squarely on the European political agenda. In his influential report on the future of European competitiveness, Mario Draghi noted that the quantum sector could contribute up to €850 billion to the […]
Last year, we published a report looking at the value of international tech diffusion to the EU economy. In this follow-up report, Digital services and SME productivity in the EU, we examine how technology diffusion plays out at the firm level. It focuses on the productivity benefits for SMEs from adopting digital tools, using survey data […]
The UK Government has committed to leverage the power of data to support economic growth. The Industrial Strategy set out the ambition to capitalise on the value of UK data, treating it as an economic asset. The recent adoption of the Data (Use and Access) Act has now enabled the implementation of this ambition, establishing the […]
On 17 July, the European Commission launched its public consultation on the Digital Fairness Act, firing the starting gun on what is shaping up to be the most consequential piece of EU digital legislation in President von der Leyen’s second mandate. This upcoming law will seek to update European consumer protection law for the digital […]
The CMA’s new consumer powers are here, with the ability to fine businesses up to 10% of global turnover for breaches.
In our latest blog, "Navigating the CMA’s New, Stronger, Consumer Powers", our experts Karla Perca López, Nick Seaford and Tom Bibby break down what this means for businesses.
In our latest blog, Flint experts Lisa Keuper and Lisa Ross explore how the securitisation landscape is evolving across two very different financial regions: APAC and the European Union. While the EU cautiously navigates regulatory frameworks with a focus on financial stability, markets across APAC show a more dynamic, albeit measured, approach to growth.
“Acqui-hires” – where firms hire multiple employees from the same firm or acquire companies with the primary aim of hiring their employees – are back in the headlines, particularly in the tech sector. Competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic are watching closely. In our latest blog post, Kah Loon Tham, Karla Perca Lopez and Stephen Kinsella discuss the role of competition law in relation to acqui-hires, the tools available to competition authorities and policy-makers, and the implications for businesses.
The UK’s data centre policy and regulatory environment is undergoing a period of rapid transformation. Demand for data centre capacity as part of global AI infrastructure is expected to scale exponentially. The UK government is seeking to establish itself as a global destination for data centre investment, as a route to the growth of the […]
In December Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves went searching for growth in an unusual place – among the UK’s regulators. Each received an early Christmas present in the form of a letter asking for pro-growth ideas. Since then, the Government has mounted pressure on regulators to eliminate barriers and go for growth. First with the […]
