US FTC chairman may revamp 20-year antitrust, consumer protection orders
By Mike Swift and Khushita Vasant ( June 22, 2026, 12:31 GMT | Comment) -- The chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, has ordered the agency's antitrust and consumer protection staff to scrutinize whether a 1995 FTC policy that settlement orders sunset only after 20 years still makes sense. Compared to other federal enforcers such as the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Department of Justice, the FTC's 20-year policy for consent orders "is not in step with what the rest of the government is doing.”The chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission said the agency’s three-decade practice of setting a default 20-year term on administrative orders for antitrust and consumer protection settlements may be a suit of clothes that no longer fits the agency and the economy....
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