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Financial Services
October 09, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
Financial Crime, Financial Services
October 09, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Artificial Intelligence
October 09, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Antitrust View More
October 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Google has been designated with “strategic market status”, or SMS, in general search and search advertising, the UK antitrust regulator said. The Competition and Markets Authority said that SMS e... (more story)
October 10, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top economic planning and market regulators have unveiled a tiered enforcement framework targeting “disorderly” price competition, while encouraging industry associations to provide cost references tha... (more story)
October 10, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
As Japan’s competition regulator promotes a new smartphone law designed to open mobile ecosystems that have long been dominated by Apple and Google, domestic companies have so far been slow to explore the busi... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
October 10, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea’s privacy watchdog inaugurated a new chair on Friday, with Song Kyung-hee outlining an agenda that ties stronger personal-data protection to the country’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. In h... (more story)
October 10, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Personal Information Protection Commission said it held an inauguration ceremony on Friday for Song Kyung-hee, who became its third minister-level chair. In her address, Song said she feels a... (more story)
October 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The National Retail Federation's top lawyer said the world’s largest retail trade group is considering an appeal of Wednesday's ruling by a federal judge that New York's Algorithmic Pricing Discl... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
October 10, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation on Friday said it is opening an antitrust investigation into Qualcomm for allegedly failing to notify the agency of its acquisition of vehicle c... (more story)
October 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The antitrust review of Vandemoortele Group’s planned acquisition of Délifrance is starting in the UK. The Competition and Markets Authority said it will decide by Dec. 8 whether the frozen baker... (more story)
October 10, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Funding of mergers and acquisitions by Indian banks is expected to simplify competition scrutiny. Bank debt, unlike private equity or venture capital funding, avoids ceding control or board rights, thereby pot... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
October 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A total of 27 European countries, including all EU member states except Estonia and Belgium, have signed a Danish statement calling for stronger protections for children online. The Jutland Decla... (more story)
October 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Microsoft has been found in breach of EU data protection law by Austria’s data watchdog, according to campaign group Noyb, saying its Microsoft 365 Education suite unlawfully tracked students and... (more story)
October 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Snapchat, YouTube, Apple App Store and Google Play face a DSA information inquiry by the European Commission over child protection measures, the regulator said on Friday. The platform's age verif... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
October 10, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
In a landmark win for drug accessibility in India, a court upheld findings that Roche's Risdiplam patent was "obvious" and invalid, thereby allowing Natco Pharma to sell a cheaper generic for spinal muscular atrophy.
October 10, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
NTTPC Communications has been ordered to disclose subscriber data behind two X accounts that impersonated 47NEWS — one of the first uses of Japan’s new Information Distribution Platform Act on social-media trademark misuse.
October 10, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s leading dairy brand, Yili Industrial Group, has secured a legal victory after a local appellate court upheld a 5 million yuan ($700,000) award against rival Mengniu Dairy in a dispute over similar milk packaging.
Financial Crime View More
October 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is intensifying its efforts against Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical exports by sanctioning more than 50 individuals, entiti... (more story)
October 09, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued answers to four Frequently Asked Questions to clarify certain requirements related to suspicious activity reports.
October 09, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Sofia Gerace
Europe
Former star fund manager Neil Woodford faces a likely wait of more than a year to defend himself against a multi-million pound fine over his collapsed fund, as senior regulators defended their conduct over the... (more story)
Financial Services View More
October 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Securities and Markets Authority on Friday published an updated manual on pre- and post-trade transparency under the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments framework. The manual sets ... (more story)
October 10, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK’s financial regulators have completed the transfer of EU investment firm conduct rules into their domestic rulebooks, paving the way for them to be able to tailor and streamline them for UK markets. The... (more story)
October 09, 2025 | Neil Roland
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
A 2020 Financial Stability Board effort to streamline cross-border payments hasn’t yet translated into “tangible improvements” for end users at the global level, a report by the regulatory coordinator for the ... (more story)
Trade View More
October 10, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Transport announced Friday it will impose “special port fees” on ships owned or operated by US entities from Oct. 14, mirroring US charges on Chinese vessels under a Section 3... (more story)
October 10, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has added Canadian semiconductor research platform TechInsights to its “unreliable entity” list, signaling Beijing’s resolve to protect its domestic chipmakers and assert control over the industry’s deve... (more story)
October 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Punitive dumping duties in place on imports of hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy and other alloy steel from Turkey into the European Union are set to lapse on July 7, 2026, the European... (more story)
State Aid View More
October 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU governments and heads of states are planning an "in-depth discussion on bolstering the Union’s competitiveness" at their summit planned for Oct. 23 and 24, according to a preparatory document ... (more story)
October 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austria has secured European Commission approval for a five-year program to support the security of electricity supply. The measure will start in October 2026 and updates the current network rese... (more story)
October 06, 2025 | Yonnex Li
Asia, Europe
The China Chamber of Commerce to the EU has called for revisions to the European Commission's draft guidelines on the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, raising concerns about the regulator's "balancing test" metho... (more story)
Energy View More
October 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU member states on Friday backed using tax incentives to boost clean technologies and industry under the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal. The move promotes measures such as targeted tax credits and a... (more story)
October 09, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Europe’s trucks — unlike the car industry — are ready to electrify, but charging and grid infrastructure must catch up, Anja van Niersen, chief executive of truck-charging venture Milence, told MLex in an inte... (more story)
October 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Europe’s gas network is expected to stay resilient this winter even if major supplies are disrupted, according to the latest Winter Supply Outlook published on Thursday by Europe’s gas operators’... (more story)
Technology View More
October 10, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Snapchat, Google’s YouTube and Google Play and Apple’s App Store are facing scrutiny from the European Union under the Digital Services Act over how they protect minors online. The commission sent information ... (more story)
October 09, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
A series of trials involving allegations against the world’s biggest social media companies — Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google, and Snap — will take place in California beginning 2026 in federal and state cou... (more story)
October 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A survey of almost 1,900 UK teenagers, done weeks before child protection codes under the country's Online Safety Act took effect, found that 49 percent of girls, and more than a third of respond... (more story)