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Trade
December 08, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
Technology
December 08, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo, Xu Yuan
North America
DealRisk®, Energy, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 05, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Antitrust View More
December 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 unnamed property management software providers warning them to not hinder the ability of rental property managers and owners to accurately adver... (more story)
December 09, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
EU enforcers' more frequent moves to probe tech companies such as Apple and Google over suspicions they are exploiting customers — and not just excluding rivals — addresses the challenges of modern digital mar... (more story)
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Greece's competition watchdog has carried out surprise inspections at the premises over companies in "electricity generation and wholesale supply." The authority said the raids were part of its o... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 09, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has submitted to Congress a sweeping proposal to regulate artificial intelligence in Brazil. The bill, No. 6237/2025, would create the National System for the Promotion and ... (more story)
December 09, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
More than 100 UK lawmakers have backed a campaign calling on the government to deliver on its commitment to bring draft legislation to regulate frontier AI systems.
December 09, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Iagê Zendron Miola, director of Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority, voiced support for the government’s bill to establish a national system for promoting and regulating artificial intelligence.
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 09, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
The UK Competition and Markets Authority is to review its approach to merger efficiencies, or the benefits that may result from a deal under investigation, in early 2026. The CMA will start by seeking views fr... (more story)
December 09, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Using competition policy to achieve European trade goals could backfire at home, but it could play a role in boosting resilience to shocks and reducing strategic weaknesses, the president of the French competi... (more story)
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: CRH’s acquisition of Gibson is to be investigated by the UK antitrust regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority is seeking views from interested parties until Dec. 23 and hasn’t said when ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 09, 2025
Europe, Oceania
MLex Summary: YouTube says blanket account bans for teens are counterproductive, arguing that they push young people into less safe, unsupervised spaces online and strip parents of key controls. In a blog post... (more story)
December 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin introduced three bipartisan bills that aim to "hold violent criminals accountable and combat the disturbing rise in online child exploitation." They introd... (more story)
December 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III of the Eastern District of Michigan requested additional briefing on Michigan's standing to bring a privacy lawsuit against Roku. The questions he has to c... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 09, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Motorola argued on Tuesday that a UK law intended to counter American assertions of extraterritorial jurisdiction does not prevent it from seeking to enforce a US compensatory damages award for trade secrets i... (more story)
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU heads of state and government aim to reach an agreement on the bloc's budget for 2028 to 2034 "before the end of 2026," according to a draft declaration to be adopted at a summit planned for D... (more story)
December 09, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s patent-linkage system came into sharp relief after a Tokyo court ruled for Bayer, clarifying how patent warnings and regulatory submissions stay shielded from unfair-competition attacks.
Financial Crime View More
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK taxpayers lost £10.9 billion ($14.5 billion) due to fraud on the government's Covid emergency support programs, most of which will be impossible to retrieve, the finance ministry said on Tuesd... (more story)
December 08, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK government has pledged to fight corruption with tougher enforcement, tighter standards across public life and a crackdown on illicit finance amid warnings that national security and public trust are bei... (more story)
December 08, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government on Monday launched a new UK anti-corruption strategy, as it seeks to drive out dirty money and strengthen national security. The government committed to a series of reforms, inc... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK financial sector veteran Sophie Hutcherson has been reappointed to the non-executive board of the Financial Conduct Authority for a second three-year term ending Apr. 16, 2029. The watchdog sa... (more story)
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK authorized open-ended funds will see changes to the liquidity risk management regime under a Financial Conduct Authority consultation released on Tuesday. The watchdog said no fundamental chan... (more story)
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK financial firms have been invited to provide feedback on the UK financial watchdog's plans to update its rulebook following the introduction of the Consumer Duty requiring them to put their cu... (more story)
Trade View More
December 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection has asked the Commerce Department to determine whether Chinese imports of steel billets by the Thai firm Boly Pipe are covered by antidumping and countervailing d... (more story)
December 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Turkish steel concrete reinforcing bar producer Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S. appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit challenging an October Court of Internati... (more story)
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission must step up its action against non-EU e-commerce platforms that don't comply with the bloc's safety and product standards, including urgently introducing a European handl... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Polish State-owned company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe may receive government aid worth around €42 billion to build and run a new nuclear power plant in Lubiatowo-Kopalino, the European Commissio... (more story)
December 09, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Lewis Crofts
Europe
The EU won’t repurpose its trade instruments or the Foreign Subsidies Regulation but will apply them through an economic-security lens, senior officials have said. Denis Redonnet said on Tuesday that tools bui... (more story)
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved a €1.5 billion Italian plan to expand cleantech manufacturing capacity, supporting the objectives of the Clean Industrial Deal, which is the EU’s strategy to ... (more story)
Energy View More
December 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU lawmakers and governments have reached a deal on measures aimed to ease companies’ sustainability obligations, notably the simplification of the directives on corporate sustainability reportin... (more story)
December 08, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Action by US government authorities against the merger of the Constellation Energy and Calpine power companies demonstrate a focus on the monopolization of nondiscretionary budget staples such as electricity.
December 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the state's merger settlement with power generators Constellation Energy and Calpine, alongside the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, "helps en... (more story)
Technology View More
December 09, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK telecom providers won’t face a ban on mid-contract price rises, a government minister told Parliament on Tuesday, despite intensifying scrutiny of telecom pricing by the government and the sector regulator.... (more story)
December 09, 2025 | Mike Swift
Europe, North America, Oceania
Government social media age restrictions, such as the one coming into force this week in Australia, or broad content-moderation laws such as those in the EU and the UK, are impossible in the US because they ar... (more story)
December 09, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Tighter cooperation on AI, digital identity systems and media independence was agreed at the first digital partnership council held between the EU and Canada. The partnership aims to increase the... (more story)