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Data Privacy and Security
January 15, 2025 | Mike Swift and Chris May
North America
Antitrust
January 15, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 14, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Antitrust View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: AB InBev is the target of a formal investigation opened by the Belgian antitrust enforcer over whether the Leuven-based brewer engaged in illegal cartel agreements or abused its market power, the... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Two construction businesses in Czechia are now under investigation by the national competition authority, to see if they engaged in a cartel. The suspected conduct concerns an illegal agreement i... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Rulings by Switzerland's Court of Arbitration for Sport must be able to face a “full review” by national courts in EU member states, according to a legal opinion prepared for the bloc’s top court... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: News agency Agence France-Presse and Mistral AI, a leading developer of general-purpose AI models, have signed a global partnership to feed AFP’s daily editorial production in six languages to Mi... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The EU lawmakers involved in the working group dedicated to monitoring the implementation of the AI Act have defined the tentative work program for the first half of 2025, focusing on the code of practice for ... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The action plan for 2025-2028 of France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés prioritizes artificial intelligence, minors’ rights, cybersecurity and everyday digital uses. The ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK antitrust probe of American Express Global Business Travel Group’s planned acquisition of CWT is to be extended by six weeks to enable the regulator to evaluate submissions and any further... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Viavi Solutions is considering making an offer for the Spirent Communications’ high-speed ethernet and network security assets that are being auctioned as part of Keysight Technologies’ efforts to get antitrus... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Inbar Preiss
Europe
Companies producing technology in the EU need to see the end of a “really bad” legislative proposal on Standard Essential Patents if the bloc is to stop “shooting itself in the foot” over innovation and R&D, t... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Negotiations for an agreement between Europol and Brazil to allow for the exchange of personal data in the fight against serious crime and terrorism were finalized at technical level on Oct. 18, ... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Football club FC København has received approval from Denmark’s Data Protection Agency to use automatic facial-recognition technology at its matches. The club’s April 2024 request included proces... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms operating in the UK received guidance today on age assurance from the online safety regulator Ofcom. Self-declaration methods were considered not effective. Publishers of pornogr... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court's Vienna Local Division has ruled that Strabag Infrastructure & Safety Solutions infringed on Swarco Futurit's European Patent 2,643,717, and ordered Strabag to cease all... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Coinbase and the European Union Intellectual Property Office were heard by the EU's General Court today over their trademark-related dispute. Coinbase seeks to annul a 2023 decision by the EUIPO’... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court's Appeals Chamber allowed Avago and Tesla to withdraw infringement and nullity counterclaims related to European Patent 1,612,910. The court declared the cases closed, or... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 15, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The chief executive officer of Australia's competition regulator is set to depart and join the financial regulator in a senior leadership position. In an announcement today, the Australian Compet... (more story)
January 15, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Block was fined $80 million by regulators from 48 states over failures in its anti-money laundering compliance program at Cash App, its digital money-transfer platform.
January 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Srimanikandan Ramamoorthy, the star cooperating witness in the bribery case of two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions, is expected to travel to the US to testify at trial in Marc... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU banking sector has until April 16 to provide feedback to the European Banking Authority's draft guidelines on environmental, social and governance scenario analysis. The guidance focuses o... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Financial Stability Board today released a report on the assessment of climate-related vulnerabilities, which contains an analytical framework and toolkit to assess those vulnerabilities. The... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Sofia Gerace and Jean Comte
Europe
A newly created EU industry committee is set to advise the bloc on how to shorten its trade settlement cycle from two days to one — a target known as T+1. The committee will kick off its work on Jan. 22 with a... (more story)
Trade View More
January 16, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
The hefty EU dumping and countervailing duties totaling nearly 80 percent on Chinese electric bikes will stay in place for a further five years, MLex has learned. The European Commission has concluded that ext... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
The EU steel safeguard needs to be significantly tightened to bring urgently needed relief to the bloc’s steel industry, says a proposal seen by MLex. Eurofer, the industry lobby, is asking the European Commis... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: PVH Group, the parent company of clothing brands Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, has been found to be involved with "inappropriate conduct" concerning Xinjiang matters, according to a preliminar... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Italian region of Campania can order Scai to repay support, based on a recovery decision the European Commission made with regard to Buonotourist, and on account of economic continuity betwee... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Portuguese territory of Madeira has lost its appeal at the EU's top court against the European Commission's order for Portugal to recover tax reductions granted to companies. In 2023, the low... (more story)
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU General Court today released summaries of appeals by Ryanair against an earlier decision to readopt Italian support to airlines to compensate them for damages triggered by the Covid pandem... (more story)
Energy View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The industrialization of the EU automotive sector should be based on market rather than penalties, and a “reality check” and “realignment” of the Green Deal is needed, the European Automobile Man... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nuclear power build-up worldwide is being led by China and Russia, the International Energy Agency said in a report. Chinese and Russian designs are used in all but four of the 52 reactors that s... (more story)
January 15, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US and Norway issued a report presenting the two countries’ shared understanding of the non-market policies and practices of certain third-party countries that may distort critical mineral markets.
Technology View More
January 16, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Google Korea argued before a Seoul court today that its child location tracking service "Family Link" complies with South Korean law by obtaining parental consent, challenging regulatory sanctions that demand ... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos
Asia
Singapore is expanding its online-safety measures to app stores, which will soon have to implement age-assurance measures — including through artificial intelligence — to prevent children from accessing inappr... (more story)
January 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Starting March 31, major app-distribution services such as Apple's App Store and Google Play Store will have to comply with a new Singapore code requiring them to verify the age or age range of u... (more story)