Mastercard settlement puts UK class action lawsuits on trial

• Letter adds new wrinkle to $2.8B NCAA settlement

  Three athletes are calling for major changes beyond those in the pending $2.8 billion NCAA antitrust settlement, including enabling college athletes to bargain collectively.
  
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• McKinsey’s $122mn bribery settlement in South Africa sparks outrage

  Politicians and campaigners say penalty is insufficient as country struggles with corruption
  
  Financial Times - 1d

• UK regulators urged to make City firms report data on ‘class ceiling’

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  Any settlement with Russia has to be ‘just’, says Zelenskyy at Trump meeting

  French president hosts three-way talk with US president-elect, as Ukrainian fears grow over position of incoming administration. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Saturday insisted at a ...
  
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  Judge OKs landmark class action settlement in LGBTQ fertility lawsuit

  A judge approved a landmark class-action settlement this week between Aetna and same-sex couples in New York who said the insurance behemoth discriminated against them and other LGBTQ customers ...
  
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• Mastercard reaches agreement in UK to settle claims of overcharging on fees

  Test case bought on behalf of 46mn credit and debit card customers ends in deal for compensation of about £200mn
  
  Financial Times - Dec. 3

• Microsoft faces £1 billion lawsuit in UK for allegedly overcharging rival cloud firms' customers

  Microsoft was accused of unfairly overcharging customers of rival cloud companies including Amazon, Google and Alibaba Cloud in a U.K. lawsuit filed Tuesday.
  
  CNBC - Dec. 3
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  Microsoft faces £1bn class action case in UK over software prices

  It is alleged the tech giant overcharged companies for its Window Server software, used in cloud computing.
  
  BBC News - Dec. 3

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