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Financial Crime
November 21, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security
November 21, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Trade
November 20, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Antitrust View More
November 24, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The Australian government will prioritize drafting legislation to ban unfair-trading practices such as subscription traps and hidden fees, a minister has said. In a statement on Monday, Australia... (more story)
November 24, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
India’s Natco Pharma has defeated US-based FMC Corporation’s bid for an interim injunction by successfully invoking the “Gillette Defense” in an insecticide patent dispute.
November 23, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
South Korea’s competition regulator is set to undergo its largest organizational expansion in decades, with plans to add 167 staff and create a new bureau and a regional office. The Korea Fair Trade Commission... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Whistleblowers can now report suspected breaches of the EU's AI law directly to the bloc's AI Office using a new tool launched on Monday. Individuals will be able to provide information anonymous... (more story)
November 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Qualcomm has secured German competition approval for its takeover of Alphawave IP Group, the watchdog said Monday. The deal had to be cleared, as the buyer had not yet been significantly involved... (more story)
November 24, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea said Monday it will introduce a new “common artificial intelligence infrastructure” that will allow public-sector employees to use selected private-sector AI tools within government n... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Omnicom Group's takeover of Interpublic Group of Companies has been approved by EU merger regulators. The European Commission said that the deal would leave Omnicom with only "moderate" shares on... (more story)
November 24, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Universal Music Group's planned $775 million acquisition of Downtown Music has received formal objections from the EU’s merger regulator, which said the deal may harm competition by allowing the world’s larges... (more story)
November 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Universal Music Group's takeover of Downtown Music has received formal objections from the European Commission. The regulator said it was concerned the deal could harm competition in the market f... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s top judges have been asked to clarify whether an online retailer’s automatic refusal to offer certain payment options —such as “buy now, pay later” or “payment in instalments”— based on ... (more story)
November 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A parliamentary inquiry should be opened on the Information Commissioner’s Office approach following its decision to not formally investigate the Ministry of Defence’s 2022 breach of the data of ... (more story)
November 24, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Meta Platforms and TikTok are facing an appeal by the European Commission after an EU court said the European Commission used the wrong procedure to set supervisory fees under the Digital Services Act, or DSA.
Intellectual Property View More
November 24, 2025 | Nick Robertson
Asia, North America
Law professor Danny Friedmann of Peking University tells MLex that the US and China copyright offices are risking a return to discredited legal standards when assessing generative AI content by emphasizing eff... (more story)
November 24, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China is stepping up its fight against trademark abuse, targeting deceptive labeling, misleading marketing claims and agency misconduct as it shifts its trademark governance from registration to real-world use.
November 21, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office’s acting commissioner of patents wrote in a court declaration this week that the Trump administration designation of patent examiners as performing “national security” work i... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 21, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo, Madeline Hughes
North America
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc. directors have agreed to a $190 million settlement resolving claims that they failed to stop Facebook’s repeated privacy violations and structured an e... (more story)
November 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Facebook executives and a group of Meta Platforms shareholders have agreed to a $190 million settlement in a lawsuit that alleged Facebook prioritized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and other se... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Smartmatic's parent company, SGO Corp., was arraigned on charges filed over its alleged role in a scheme to bribe a Philippine official for $182 million in contracts to provide voting machines an... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 21, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Federal Reserve Governor Philip Jefferson discounted comparisons of artificial intelligence stock swings with the 1990s dot-com boom, saying the current era poses less of a threat to financial stability. “I... (more story)
November 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Reserve announced that it will extend until Feb. 21 the comment period on its proposal to improve stress test model and scenario transparency and accountability.
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Eurosystem central banks saw updated guidance on consolidated banking data published in the EU's official bulletin on Friday. The European Central Bank revised its 2021 framework to include large... (more story)
Trade View More
November 21, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US mushroom industry on Friday urged the International Trade Commission to find that Canadian imports of fresh mushrooms injured domestic growers and packers with dumped and subsidized product.
November 21, 2025 | Zack Budryk and Eliana Hubacker
North America
The administration of US President Donald Trump faces increasing pressure from rising food prices as it develops trade policy, compelling the White House to exempt several products from the tariffs that have b... (more story)
November 21, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Commerce Department is requesting information on foreign subsidies of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty. Comments must be submitted by the end of the year.
State Aid View More
November 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A Polish association of private postal operators, or OZPNOP, has appealed Polish compensation worth €865 million for state-owned postal operator Poczta Polska for its 2021-2025 universal service ... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Asia, Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has received German foreign direct investment clearance for its takeover of chemical company Covestro, the final approval it needed to complete the €14.7 billion deal. Germany’s ... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst, Andrew Boyce and Lewis Crofts
Europe
The outcome of the EU's foreign-subsidy review of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's Covestro acquisition has few lessons to offer dealmakers in the way of certainty, given that the concessions extracted appeare... (more story)
Energy View More
November 24, 2025 | Helena Freitas
Europe
COP30 in Brazil closed with an agreement to scale climate finance to $1.3 trillion annually and triple adaptation funding by 2035, but failed to strengthen language on phasing out fossil fuels. The EU welcomed... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has warned all but one EU member state over their failure to fully transpose the recast Energy Efficiency Directive into national law. The directive, which sets a binding ... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has urged Portugal to fully comply with the EU rules on ecodesign and energy labeling of products. The commission said Portugal has not met its obligations to properly mon... (more story)
Technology View More
November 24, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Influencers, video sharing platforms and online media content providers may face tighter EU rules in the future, as the European Commission reviews the Audiovisual Media Services Directive to better protect mi... (more story)
November 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Audiovisual Media Services Directive will undergo a comprehensive evaluation as the European Commission examines whether its framework still suits an evolving media environment shaped by infl... (more story)
November 24, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Snapchat will begin asking Australian users to verify their age through bank-linked IDs, government identification or facial age estimation technology from this week, as the platform moves to comply with Austr... (more story)