Big tech regulatory crackdown: How much of a threat does it pose to investors?

‘Risks might not be fully priced in’

The years ahead are set to offer a much more challenging environment for big tech, industry experts have warned, with increased regulatory scrutiny aiming to clip their wings coming from both sides of the Atlantic.

In the US, large tech firms are facing the first major effort by Congress to regulate big tech since the inception of the internet: the antitrust bill known as the American Innovation and Choice Act, which has received bipartisan support in the House and Senate. Across the pond, the EU passed new rules to rein in the power of the tech titans in July - the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act -which aims to crack down on what it defines as anti-competitive behaviour from mainly US technology businesses. "Silicon Valley now faces a two-pronged attack from the EU and leading ...