Italy’s competition regulator is tightening the screws on Meta, warning that the company’s latest changes to WhatsApp could choke off competition in the fast-moving AI chatbot market just as it begins to take shape.
The Justice Department is pushing RealPage to unwind the software practices that federal antitrust officials say helped landlords move in lockstep on rent prices, a big shift authorities argue has undermined competition and contributed to surging housing costs for renters nationwide.
Federal banking regulators signed off Tuesday on a rule they say will help large banks stay active in lower-risk markets, especially the critical plumbing of U.S. Treasury trading, without being boxed in by leverage rules that weren’t designed for those activities.
Lowe’s Home Centers is facing a $12.5 million penalty and a sweeping compliance overhaul after federal regulators said the company repeatedly fell short of lead-safety requirements during renovation work in older homes, work that stretched across hundreds of properties nationwide between 2019 and 2021.
Finnair is facing a big setback in a long-running antitrust investigation after Finland’s competition authority accused the airline of repeatedly providing misleading and incomplete information during the early stages of the case.
Poland’s competition authority has opened an antitrust case into Apple, raising fresh questions about whether the tech giant’s privacy controls have given it an unfair edge in the mobile advertising market.
Cbus, one of Australia’s biggest superannuation funds, has been hit with a $23.5 million penalty after the Federal Court found the trustee failed to process thousands of death and disability insurance claims in a reasonable time, in some cases leaving families waiting more than a year for decisions at moments when they needed answers most.