Microsoft’s Bing, Edge to Avoid EU’s Digital Dominance Crackdown January 23, 2024 By Stephanie Bodoni and Samuel Stolton Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine, Edge web browser and Advertising services are set to be exempt from strict new European...
X Corp. Loses Fight to End FTC Privacy Oversight November 21, 2023 By Malathi Nayak X Corp. failed to persuade a federal judge to curb the US Federal Trade Commission’s close watch over the social...
SEC Signals It May Curb Climate Rule Ambitions November 20, 2023 By Jarrett Renshaw, Douglas Gillison and Isla Binnie U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials have told lobbyists and corporate executives in recent days that the agency’s long-anticipated...
Communities Can’t Recycle or Trash E-Cigarettes. So What Happens to Them? October 20, 2023 By Matthew Perrone With the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to safely...
US Regulators Push for Recall of 52 Million Air Bag Inflators October 6, 2023 By David Shepardson U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) officials on Oct. 5 told a public hearing that the government should require...
Judge Rules Against Consumer-Watchdog Anti-Discrimination Effort September 11, 2023 By Jody Godoy A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) does not have broad authority to tackle...
Banking Industry Starts to Pick Its Battles Against New Capital Rules August 7, 2023 By Douglas Gillison, Tatiana Bautzer and Nupur Anand Now that regulators in Washington have unfurled a hefty reform package of post-financial crisis capital regulations, banking industry advisers are...
The New M&A Rules That Would Delay Million-Dollar Deals June 29, 2023 By Leah Nylen The US antitrust agencies are requiring firms to turn over much more information about their transactions than before in an...
FDIC Says Tougher Rules Coming for Banks Over $100B in Size June 22, 2023 By Pete Schroeder The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said Thursday that bank regulators are considering applying an upcoming set of...
US Beefs Up Campaign for Accurate Animal Welfare Claims on Meat, Poultry Packaging June 15, 2023 By Dee-Ann Durbin The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it hopes to weed out false or misleading animal-welfare claims on meat and...