News analysis - OFT: Competition investigation ends in a 'damp squib'
Following a tip off from insurer RSA, the Office of Fair Trading looked into whether an Experian data analysis tool could create the potential for price fixing. Mairi MacDonald reports on the results of the lengthy investigation.
Experian has been enduring the unpleasant experience of being made an example of by the Office of Fair Trading. Last week, the OFT revealed that one of Experian's data analysis tools has been the
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