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Commissions paid to insurance brokers harm competition, Australia regulator says May 20, 2025 | James Panichi

Insurance brokers are once again in the crosshairs of Australia’s antitrust regulator, which has used a submission to an independent review to accuse the sector of being rife with conflicts of interest that hu... (more story)

Mastercard's Australian antitrust case has yet to move beyond discovery May 20, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Australia’s antitrust case against Mastercard remains mired in discovery delays, as the country’s competition watchdog seeks to resolve questions around the waiver of legal-professional privilege over discover... (more story)

South Korea's top delivery service faces on-site inspection by KFTC May 20, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

South Korea’s leading food-delivery service, Baedal Minjok, is undergoing on-site inspection by the country’s competition regulator over allegations of unfair-trade practices. Investigators from the Korea Fair... (more story)

Japan baseball league to get antitrust warning for retaliation against Fuji Television May 20, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s antitrust regulator is set to issue a warning to Japan’s top baseball league for retaliating against Fuji Television Network after the TV station aired a US Major League baseball match at the same time... (more story)

Irico confronts multi-billion-dollar damages fight in US CRT antitrust case May 19, 2025 | Alex Wilts

Irico Group today began facing off against classes of purchaser plaintiffs at a US damages hearing, where a judge appeared to be grappling with how to craft an order over how much the Chinese electronics compa... (more story)

Monopolists' products can be superior, Meta expert says at US FTC trial May 19, 2025 | Chris May

Monopolists sometimes innovate more and offer higher-quality products than a “perfect competitor,” Meta Platforms' economic expert John List told a US federal judge overseeing high-profile antitrust litigation... (more story)

EU, UK finalize talks on new antitrust cooperation deal May 19, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Antitrust watchdogs in the EU and the UK will soon be able to work together more closely after negotiators concluded talks on a formal cooperation deal. A summit today confirmed an end to negotiations that sta... (more story)

Symrise escapes UK probe into suspected fragrance cartel May 19, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

German manufacturer Symrise has seen the UK’s antitrust authority close a probe into the company over its role in a suspected cartel on the market for fragrances. The Competition and Markets Authority said it ... (more story)

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Why Vodafone's network trash talk may trigger Australian antitrust regulator May 20, 2025 | James Panichi

Vodafone Australia launched a broadside at industry leader Telstra this week, claiming that the company was overstating — by a factor of a million square kilometers — the reach of its mobile-phone network. The... (more story)

Will Microsoft’s Teams deal with EU enforcer cause it real pain? It’s complicated May 16, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Questions abound over Microsoft's draft settlement with the EU antitrust regulator today to close its probe into the US tech giant's rollout of its Teams collaboration software. First, will it do the job of ge... (more story)

Trump executive orders on competition put spotlight on federal regulations May 15, 2025 | Clayton Vickers

The US Defense Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration are among the likely targets of a presidential directive mandating the evaluation of anticompetitive government regulation.

Australian minister says competition will play a part in boosting productivity May 15, 2025 | James Panichi

Andrew Leigh has been reappointed as Australia’s competition minister, with added responsibility for boosting the workforce’s weak productivity gains in recent years. In an interview with MLex, Leigh said stro... (more story)

US FTC's Meador advocates 'down the middle' antitrust enforcement May 14, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

US Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador described his competition law enforcement philosophy as “neutral and fair,” meaning neither hostile nor obsequious toward business. Meador promised to find a middle gr... (more story)

EU countries, lawmakers stack support behind SEP bill revival May 14, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

A growing bloc of EU member states is urging the European Commission to reverse its decision to withdraw a controversial SEP regulation. The proposal will now be discussed at the May 22 meeting of trade and ec... (more story)

Brazil's CADE sees victory in recent high-stakes court battles May 13, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

The Brazilian competition authority is feeling confident in court battles initiated by companies challenging preventative measures imposed by the agency, MLex has learned. At the moment, the agency has at leas... (more story)

A hundred days into US FTC under new chairman, don't call leadership regulators May 09, 2025 | Mike Swift and Ilana Kowarski

Last week marked 100 days since the start of Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the US Federal Trade Commission, and while the new chairman has frequently talked the talk of a full-throated Trump populist, the wa... (more story)