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The head of Australia's competition watchdog said on Tuesday a tribunal overturning its decision to block ANZ Group's (ANZ) A$4.9 billion ($3.2 billion) proposed buyout of Suncorp's (SUN) banking business showed the need for merger law reform in Australia.
The Australian Competition Tribunal on Tuesday said ANZ, Australia's fourth-largest bank by market capitalisation, could proceed with buying Suncorp's banking business despite the regulator blocking the deal in the middle of last year.
"It provides a basis for support for the merger reforms that we have proposed," Australian Competition and Consumer chairperson, Gina Cass-Gottlieb, told Reuters in an interview by telephone.
"Where there are concentrated markets and critical household- and business-facing markets, such as banking services, that are conducive to co-ordinated behaviours, we need to have fit-for-purpose merger review laws so we can make sure we don’t lose competition or ... can promote more competition."
The ACCC has 28 days from Tuesday to lodge a judicial review, but Cass-Gottlieb said it was "too early to tell" if that would occur.
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