Chopra Order on Big Tech Payment Services Marks New Approach to Power, Privacy, and Data

Open Markets applauds the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for ordering Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Square, and PayPal to disclose information about their payment system practices.

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsOctober 21, 20212021, October 2021, Big Tech, Barry Lynn, Primary Feature, Wins

Sens. Klobuchar and Grassley Lead a Bipartisan Step Forward for Protecting People From Platform Monopolists

Open Markets applauds the introduction of the “The American Innovation and Choice Online Act.”

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsOctober 19, 20212021, Wins, October 2021, Barry Lynn, Politics, Big Tech, Secondary Feature

Open Markets Applauds Waters and FSC for Moving to Protect U.S. Financial Markets from Secretive Billion Dollar Investment Funds

Open Markets celebrates the Financial Services Committee’s passage of a package of bills aimed at bringing new, much-needed transparency to family offices.

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsJuly 29, 20212021, Wins, June 2021, Secondary Feature

With Kanter, Khan, Wu, and the Rest of Biden’s Trustbusting Team, We’re Looking at a New Era of Democracy for All Americans, From the Bottom Up

The Open Markets Institute applauds the Biden administration’s nomination of Jonathan Kanter to run the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsJuly 20, 2021Antitrust Law, Big Tech, Technology & Power, Wins, Primary Feature

Biden Executive Order Marks Important Win for Movement to Protect Workers, Farming Communities, Exporters, and Our Nation’s Security from Monopoly Power

The Open Markets Institute releases a statement celebrating a White House executive order on competition policy aimed at breaking the power of monopolists and calling for a multitude of actions that Open Markets pioneered over the years.

Open Markets Institute Welcomes Alexis Goldstein as Financial Policy Director and Deepak Gupta as Board Member

Open Markets Institute announces new staff member, Alexis Goldstein as new Financial Policy Director, and new board member, Deepak Gupta.

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsJune 25, 20212021, Wins, June 2021, Primary Feature

Open Markets Institute Applauds the House Judiciary’s Bipartisan Passage of Six Antitrust Bills

The Open Markets Institute releases statement applauding Chairman David Cicilline, Ranking Member Ken Buck, and members of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee for voting out of committee a suite of bipartisan bills aiming to rein in Big Tech.

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsJune 24, 2021Antitrust Law, Big Tech, Technology & Power, Wins

With 3 New Hires, Open Markets Institute Ushers in the Next Era of Protecting Working People, Communities, and Democracy from Corporate Consolidation

Open Markets Institute announces three new hires including Managing Editor, Finance Associate and a new position, Chief Economist.

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsMarch 9, 20212021, March 2021, Wins, Secondary Feature

Open Markets Leads in Stopping $1.4 Billion Printing Merger, in a Rare Win for Authors and Publishers

Today, LSC Communications and Quad/Graphics, the two biggest magazine and book printers and distributors in America, abandoned their plans to merge.

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsJuly 23, 20192019, July 2019, Wins, Center for Journalism & Liberty

Rolling Stone: Monopoly Takes Center Stage in the National Conversation; Open Markets Made It Happen

Rolling Stone’s Andy Kroll has featured the Open Markets Institute in a new story about monopoly power’s rising presence on the political agenda, crediting Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn as the intellectual driving force.

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsMarch 12, 20192019, March 2019, Wins

Representatives Jerrold Nadler and David Cicilline Quote from Open Markets Letter in House Debate on H.R. 5645

Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and David Cicilline (D-RI) quoted Open Markets when they spoke out on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 against H.R. 5645, the Standard Merger and Acquisition Review Through Equal Rules Act of 2018.

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