United States: Cartels, Monopolies

Yesterday, FinCEN announced an ongoing enforcement initiative against more than 100 money services businesses operating along the Southwest U.S. border.

Across several recent cases, antitrust enforcers in Europe have demonstrated an increased willingness to consider novel solutions to close down investigations through commitments (without finding any illegal behaviour or imposing penalties), but still being able to point to real wins to consumers from their interventions...

On October 23, 2025, the French Competition Authority (FCA) issued an informal guidance on the compatibility with competition law of a proposed platform...

Antitrust laws are designed to ensure that businesses compete fairly. There are three federal antitrust laws that businesses must navigate. These include the Sherman Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act...

With growing concerns of a more lax application of antitrust law under the current Trump administration, individual states have continued to look for ways to strengthen their own antitrust regulations.

Early Consent Decrees Shed Light on Trump Administration's Approach to Merger Settlements...

In a recent article, economists from George Mason's Mercatus Center surveyed a persistent but little-noted problem in American labor markets: union monopolies.

The Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association (ABA)'s 73rd Annual Spring Meeting took place from April 2 to April 4, in Washington, D.C. At the conference, over 3,900 registrants from 70 countries...

On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14157, "Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists" (EO 14157).