On 5 April the European Commission published a report on “EU loan syndication and its impact on competition in credit markets”. The study focused on loan syndication in six EU Member States. It suggests that there are few areas where loan syndication processes in themselves could represent a risk to competition law. However, it does identify some features of the syndication process that could lead to anti-competitive outcomes, although the authors consider these risks to be low in most cases.
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