{"id":81231,"date":"2017-05-15T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c992eb4680fb4284cc2f396d9ac2bc0a"},"modified":"2017-05-15T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:00:22","slug":"news-story-atm-merger-referred-for-full-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81231","title":{"rendered":"News story: ATM merger referred for full investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On 3 May the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/atm-merger-faces-in-depth-investigation\">refer the merger for a phase 2 investigation<\/a> unless Cardtronics offered acceptable proposals to address these concerns by 10 May.<\/p>\n<p>As Cardtronics has not offered these undertakings, the CMA will now refer the merger.<\/p>\n<p>A decision on the merger will be made by a group of independent panel members supported by a case team of CMA staff. The deadline for the final report is 27 October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>All information relating to the investigation is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/cardtronics-directcash-payments-merger-inqury\">case page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardtronics\u2019 purchase of rival ATM provider DCP is being referred for an in-depth investigation, after the CMA found competition concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}