But the OFT chose not to refer the market to the Competition Commission - a decision welcomed by the banks.
It also plans to refer the market to the Competition Commission, after it found "deep-rooted" problems in how payday loan companies compete.
Greifeld acknowledged the growing market competition that seemed to propel each deal forward, though he insisted Friday that the Nasdaq-Instinet transaction already was well on its way before the NYSE deal.
New rules were introduced in 2005 but in 2012 the OFT threatened to refer the warranties market to the Competition Commission.
Designers operating solely in the contemporary market find the competition is fierce.
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Because of the private market competition, and incentives for seniors to choose lower cost plans, Part D costs have run 40% below projections.
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Because of the private market competition, and incentives for seniors to choose lower cost plans, costs of that program have come in 41% below projections.
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The competition watchdog said "there are competition problems in the audit market", and added that it could ask the Competition Commission to conduct a detailed investigation, because the "statutory test" for a reference to the Commission had been passed.
While the retail market is open to the vagaries of high competition and eventual commoditization of the market, enterprises generally enter into multi-year contracts and are therefore less prone to changing vendors as often as retail buyers do.
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Existing telecom operators expressed concern that a state-funded player in the market could distort competition and damage the growth of services.
We estimate a slight decline in its market share as we feel that the entry of ARM technology in the PC market will intensify competition for the existing players.
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Despite the increasingly crowded market, the competition among banks for bond-sale work isn't likely to soften.
Common errors are misjudging the size of the market and underestimating the competition.
The OFT's decision to refer the car insurance market to the Competition Commission is a provisional one.
Halifax's 19% share of the mortgage market will increase slightly but it has no presence in the small business market which is worrying the competition authorities.
Opening the market to foreign competition offers a good excuse to eliminate the restrictions on out-of-state companies that exist due to state licensing laws.
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As tablets eat into the PC market, and the tech market in general, competition will ramp up.
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On the plus side, the same market forces driving the competition for top new talent are also spurring the search for hot, young entrepreneurs with cool ideas to back.
While MIPS appears to have gained some ground in that market, the company is facing renewed competition in the consumer electronics market that has long been its strongest business, where rival ARM has been gaining ground.
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Intel has succeeded in taking a share of the NAND chip market, but faces competition from market leaders in the sector including Samsung and Toshiba.
The advantage for the hedge funds in the mortgage market lay in the inefficiency of that market and the lack of such fierce competition as existed in the much larger universe of macro hedge funds.
Although Boeing and Airbus dominate the global narrow-body jet market, the competition is making gains.
The "zigzag" movement of prices rising and falling in short order was normal, she said, and a sign of the intense price competition on the market.
For savers who accept rates will not beat inflation, there is some cheer in the level of competition in the market, according to one price comparison website.
The biggest is the degree of competition in the market, which governments have generally encouraged by allowing the construction of rival infrastructure to the telephone network, usually in the form of cable networks.
The minute value stands still is the very minute the market adapts and your competition will begin to erode the value you worked so hard to create.
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What I find really interesting about this is how the cartel v. market competition differences entirely change who gets all of the money from the game (s).
You might think that the invisible hand of market competition would have solved these problems, that the prospect of higher income from improved practices would have encouraged change.
Where geographic isolation had protected the Hartford market from competition, telecommunications made distance irrelevant.
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