Topic: U.S. Federal Trade Commission

Transaction Volume Increases At BankBranded ATMs ISO Says

The article reports on the increase in the transaction volume at automated teller machines (ATMs) that carry financial-institution brands in the U.S. Keith Myers of Cardtronics Inc. claims that the bulk of increase in transactions from customers of the branding bank. MARCH ...

Lawmakers Propose Web Ad-Privacy Safeguards

According to The Wall Street Journal, Reps. Rick Boucher, D-Va., and Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., plan to post on their websites a draft of legislation that proposes regulating Internet companies' methods for collecting information about Web visitors and the use of that data ...
Practices with 20 or fewer physicians may be exempt from the " Days later, the Federal Trade Commission reported that enforcement of the "Red Flags" rule would be delayed - for the fourth time in less than two years - until June ...
Practices with 20 or fewer physicians may be exempt from the " Days later, the Federal Trade Commission reported that enforcement of the "Red Flags" rule would be delayed - for the fourth time in less than two years - until June ...

House panel OKs bill creating consumer agency

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel approved a bill on Thursday to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to oversee mortgages and other financial products while strengthening the pro-consumer Federal Trade Commission.The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 33 ...

House panel votes to ban "pay to delay" drug deals

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Friday to ban deals in which drug companies pay generic firms to delay bringing out a cheaper, copycat version of a drug.The House Energy and Commerce Committee, by a voice vote, ...

More on Today’s Antitrust News: Much Ado About Section 2

We previewed the news earlier today, that President Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's antitrust division, Christine Varney, was slated to announce a major shift in the division's approach to enforcement. Varney repudiated a controversial Bush administration report from last September ...
U.S. lawmakers promised to push ahead legislation aimed at cracking down on pretexting despite some objections from telecom carriers and the U.S. Department of Justice.. Nearly all the members of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee pledged to push the ...
The Data Accountability and Trust Act (DATA) was approved by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee last week and could soon be cleared by the House of Representatives. The bill, if passed, would mean all companies have to inform customers of ...