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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Holly Williams

Probe into Aviva’s £3.7bn deal for Direct Line launched by competition watchdog

An investigation into Aviva’s £3.7 billion takeover swoop for insurance rival Direct Line has been launched by Britain’s competition watchdog.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had kicked off an initial probe into the deal to look at whether it would result in a “substantial lessening of competition” in the sector.

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