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Antitrust
September 08, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Data Privacy and Security
September 05, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Data Privacy and Security
September 04, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo and Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
September 09, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Senior Chinese officials overseeing the smart manufacturing and electronics information sectors on Tuesday struck an upbeat note on how artificial intelligence will affect blue-collar workers, signaling new me... (more story)
September 09, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's top market regulator on Tuesday vowed to step up scrutiny of competition in the food delivery sector, focusing on curbing excessive subsidies that could distort pricing. Speaking at the a... (more story)
September 09, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Google was compelled to produce information to assist Australia’s antitrust watchdog, ahead of the November 2022 publication of an interim report urging the government to establish digital laws to establish a ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Finance firms in the UK have highlighted the need for greater regulatory clarity and regulator-brokered, standardized benchmarks in their use of AI, in feedback to the Financial Conduct Authority... (more story)
September 09, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea will enforce its basic AI law in January 2026 without suspending regulatory provisions, instead introducing a grace period on rules involving fines. The Ministry of Science and ICT released a draft... (more story)
September 09, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Artificial Intelligence-driven companion chatbots will be targeted by new industry-drafted codes to protect children from harmful content, the Australian online safety regulator said. In a statem... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Tuesday issued the public version of its recent decision to clear Interparking’s plan to buy Saba Infraestructuras. In June, the EU merger regulator concluded that the ... (more story)
September 09, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
US medical devices company Intuitive has filed for EU approval to buy its European distribution operations from AB Medica. The European Commission has set an Oct. 10 deadline to decide on the deal.
September 09, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Switzerland-based Novartis AG plans to acquire New York-based Tourmaline Bio, a late-stage clinical biotech company focusing on inflammatory and immune diseases. The deal, valued at approximately... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU must not weaken the rules that safeguard people and the environment, 470 civil society groups, trade unions, and NGOs have urged in the context of the EU executive's deregulation agenda. A... (more story)
September 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Vodafon Greece, or Vodafon – Panafon, has been fined €550,000 ($640,000) by the Greek privacy watchdog for breaking the EU's GDPR privacy and data protection law. Vodafon failed to ensure proper ... (more story)
September 09, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s cyber police opened an administrative probe into Dior’s Shanghai unit after a data leak, with local authorities imposing penalties under the Personal Information Protection Law, according... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
September 09, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Finnish lawmaker Jarno Limnéll tells MLex that Ukraine is a testing ground for modern warfare, pushing Finland to treat intellectual property as a defense asset and place drones at the core of its strategy.
September 09, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top intellectual property regulator said it will tighten examination of patent applications to ensure that only deserving innovations are granted, refusals are well grounded, and examination standards ... (more story)
September 09, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
The Japan Patent Office, or JPO, has rejected a petition by NEXCO Central to invalidate PXZ’s “vehicle guidance system” patent, preserving rights covering electronic toll collection, or ETC, flows at toll plaz... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
September 09, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The UK's white-collar crime agency has recovered £1.1 million from a fraudster's former wife as a result of its first use of an "unexplained wealth order," a tool to force suspected criminals to prove they bou... (more story)
September 09, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A sales executive testified in US court today that he had agreed with his boss, a Georgia businessman on trial for alleged corruption, to pay bribes to Honduran officials for contracts to supply uniforms to th... (more story)
September 08, 2025 | Neil Roland
Europe, North America
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission will explore whether trading platforms authorized by the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, or similar crypto regimes, would qualify for US recognition, acting ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
September 09, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Clarity is needed on updates to UK consumer protection laws, the head of the financial markets regulator told lawmakers today as they pressed him on how car finance firms were able to engage in misconduct by l... (more story)
September 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force announced it will host a public roundtable on financial surveillance and privacy on Oct. 17.
September 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released several bulletins to banks clarifying how it will target politicized debanking in its supervision.
Trade View More
September 08, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, Latin America, North America
The US Court of International Trade remanded a 2023 Department of Commerce review of antidumping and antisubsidy orders on wood moulding and millwork products from China, finding the federal agency should not ... (more story)
September 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A coalition of 12 Democrat-led states filed a brief to the Supreme Court of the United States agreeing with the Trump administration's request for an expedited timeline in a case challenging the ... (more story)
September 08, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today upheld a trade court ruling that sustained a Commerce Department antidumping order review on large diameter welded pipe from Greece, ruling against a Greek... (more story)
State Aid View More
September 08, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea has unveiled a sweeping government reorganization designed to align state functions with President Lee Jae Myung’s core agenda of innovation-led growth, citizen-centered governance an... (more story)
September 05, 2025 | Yonnex Li
Asia
A top antitrust advisor to China's State Council, the country's cabinet, is recommending semiconductor and pharmaceutical companies be required to disclose plans for reducing reliance on government subsidies b... (more story)
September 04, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has lashed out at an EU foreign-subsidy probe into its takeover of struggling German chemical company Covestro, saying red-tape and delays could scupper the deal. The Europea... (more story)
Energy View More
September 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Adopting low-carbon heating alternatives in the UK — such as heat pumps — would deliver lower energy bills, climate think tank E3G said in a recently published paper. By improving performance sta... (more story)
September 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Meeting the EU’s 70-percent cross-border electricity trade requirement could have prevented the energy price spikes that hit southeastern Europe in summer 2024, energy regulator ACER has said in ... (more story)
September 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU shouldn't weaken key sustainability reporting rules as it works to simplify legislation, a group of European academics said Tuesday. Any changes to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting D... (more story)
Technology View More
September 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK telecom companies can enable “direct-to-device” satellite services after regulator Ofcom confirmed it will vary mobile operators’ licenses and introduce new handset exemptions, following an in... (more story)
September 09, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
South Korea’s Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s decision that imposed a $43,000 criminal fine on a Taiwanese company, holding the company liable for technology theft committed by its South Kor... (more story)
September 08, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
PubMatic and Insider, Inc. accused Google of having monopolized the digital advertising technology markets in separate lawsuits filed today in Virginia and New York, with each plaintiff seeking a jury trial, u... (more story)