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Trade
November 20, 2024 | Laine Cibulskis and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Financial Services
November 20, 2024 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Technology
November 20, 2024 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Antitrust View More
November 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Google’s motion to dismiss amended US antitrust claims alleging that it monopolized the markets for general search services and general search text advertising via various distribution agreements... (more story)
November 20, 2024 | Clayton Vickers
North America
An Illinois federal judge said she will grant a move by proposed class of PVC pipe purchasers to subsume a new complaint filed by Erie County, New York, and other public and private drinking water and sewer pr... (more story)
November 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Pfizer has been fined 62 million pounds and Flynn Pharma fined 6.7 million pounds by the UK competition court over epilepsy-drug pricing behaviors, with the sanctions largely matching those levie... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology on the impact of digital hiring assessments — such as AI-powered assessments and other automated employment decision systems — on disabled work... (more story)
November 20, 2024 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Meta Platforms has vowed to bring the “same level of AI innovation” to Europe as it does to the rest of the world, a company spokesperson has said. It is working with the Irish data regulator on its concerns o... (more story)
November 20, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: The EU's AI Office and Singapore's AI Safety Institute will start to co-work, under an agreement signed today that will strengthen their cooperation in promoting the innovation, development and r... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: EasyPark’s planned acquisition of Flowbird Group has received unconditional approval by France's Autorité de la Concurrence, the office said today. The watchdog focused its review on the upstream... (more story)
November 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Swedish pharmacy operator Apotekstjänst Sverige has lost its appeal against the national competition authority’s decision to block its acquisition of rival Svensk Dos from Oriola, according to a ... (more story)
November 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Gerresheimer, a packaging maker for drugs and cosmetics, has received approval for its plans to acquire control of rival Bormioli Pharma, but subject to conditions, the Austrian competition autho... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 20, 2024 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The French privacy watchdog says it has asked EU competition enforcers to look at how to deal with mobile web apps that force users to create accounts to access their services, such as buying movie tickets. Th... (more story)
November 20, 2024 | Jakub Krupa
Europe
Microsoft-owned platform LinkedIn has appealed an Irish decision and 310 million-euro fine over the company’s processing of personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising and behavioral analysis, MLex ... (more story)
November 20, 2024 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The Irish Data Protection Commission, the EU’s lead privacy watchdog for Big Tech, plans to issue two “big” decisions by the end of the year, a commissioner said today in an interview with MLex. The Irish auth... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Michael F. Easley, Jr., US attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announced efforts to combat transnational money laundering, including the creation of the Illicit Finance Task Forc... (more story)
November 20, 2024
North America
MLex Smmary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil complaints against Gautam Adani and Sagar Adani, executives of Adani Green Energy Ltd., and Cyril Cabanes, an executive of Azure Power Global ... (more story)
November 20, 2024 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang, owner of the private investment firm Archegos Capital Management, was sentenced today to 18 years in prison for engaging in a market manipulation scheme that led to the firm’s collapse ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 20, 2024 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
FTX co-founder Gary Wang was the first to cooperate in the US fraud probe of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange and, as the last defendant to be sentenced, he received a term of time served.
November 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Supervisory Authorities — the European Banking Authority, the European Securities and Markets Authority and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority — published the... (more story)
November 20, 2024
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: In a disclosure to investors, BIT Mining reported its recent settlement with the US government over violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Trade View More
November 20, 2024 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Chinese solar-panel makers Wuxi Suntech Power and Zhejiang Sunflower have lost legal challenges over EU decisions to withdraw them from a price undertaking that allowed them to dodge punitive duties by observi... (more story)
November 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department issued a notice that it has amended the dumping rate for Indian steel pipe and tube exporter Garg Tube to 4.25 percent. The notice followed a final Court of Internation... (more story)
November 20, 2024
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has has issued antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders on ferrosilicon from Russia.
State Aid View More
November 19, 2024 | Natalie McNelis
Europe
Intermediate Capital Group and Imanes have sought EU foreign-subsidy clearance for a change in control over French frozen food retailer Picard. The European Commission has until Dec. 19 to decide on the deal, ... (more story)
November 15, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania has secured clearance for its plans to grant 790 million euros in public support to Societatea Complexul Energetic Valea Jiului to help it cover the costs arising from the shutdown of fou... (more story)
November 15, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Poland has received European Commission approval for its plans to compensate State-owned postal operator Poczta Polska with around 865 million euros for its universal service obligation covering ... (more story)
Energy View More
November 20, 2024
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Hydrogen Europe and the Green Hydrogen Association (GH2 India) signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to boost collaboration and promote the hydrogen sector across both regions. This partners... (more story)
November 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Imerys Aluminates Group, a French multinational producer of industrial minerals, lost its legal dispute at the EU’s General Court against the European Commission over the commission's adoption of... (more story)
November 19, 2024
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s energy regulator is set to split from the antitrust regulator under legislation introduced to parliament today designed to modify the competition law to bring about the changes. The l... (more story)
Technology View More
November 20, 2024 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Social media platforms' activities in relation to online safety are “one of the most serious issues of our time," the UK's technology minister told lawmakers today after publishing details of a set of new stra... (more story)
November 20, 2024 | Jet Damazo-Santos
Asia
Indonesia’s Ministry of Industry says it will act swiftly on Apple’s proposal to invest $100 million in the country over the next two years in order to get a ban on its latest smartphone lifted. The offer is s... (more story)
November 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Social media algorithms' interaction with generative AI and the spread of harmful and false content online will see parliamentary scrutiny in the UK as lawmakers want to further probe the misinfo... (more story)