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European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security and Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency Maros Sefcovic at the General Affairs Council on Dec. 17, 2024.

Trade

May 15, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska

Europe

US outlines demands to EU in ongoing trade-deal talks

Trade

May 15, 2025 | Zack Budryk

Asia, North America

International economic group projects trade uncertainty will drive down growth

Antitrust View More

China's SAMR chief vows to tackle 'involution' amid food-delivery rivalries

May 16, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia

China's top market regulator will intensify efforts to combat what it describes as destructive 'involution-style' competition practices, with the timing of its plans indicating a focus on the heated rivalry in... (more story)

JFTC unveils draft rules for upcoming smartphone-software competition law

May 16, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

Asia

The Japan Fair Trade Commission has unveiled draft implementation rules for the upcoming smartphone-software competition law and opened them for public consultation. Modeled after the EU’s Digital Markets Act,... (more story)

South Korean furniture giants found guilty on appeal in massive bid-rigging case

May 16, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Asia

South Korea's major furniture companies have been found guilty on appeal in a sweeping bid-rigging case involving 2.3 trillion won (about $1.6 billion) worth of apartment furniture contracts. The Seoul High Co... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

China vows decisive action amid US restrictions on Huawei AI chips

May 16, 2025

Asia,North America

MLex Summary: In response to the US’s latest worldwide restrictions on the use of Huawei's artificial intelligence chips, China said the US must immediately correct its wrongdoings, and vowed that China would ... (more story)

Anthropic, US authors debate copyright ownership issues at class certification hearing

May 15, 2025 | Amy Miller

North America

Issues around copyright ownership dominated a hearing today on US authors' request to certify a proposed class action accusing Anthropic of illegally using their work to train its large language model Claude. ... (more story)

Ferguson says US FTC needs more resources to enforce intimate deepfakes law, AI agenda

May 15, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

The Federal Trade Commission will need new funding and technical infrastructure to enforce a pending federal ban on non-consensual AI-generated pornography, Chairman Andrew Ferguson told lawmakers today, warni... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Facebook was 'not easy' to copy due to network effects, former Google+ executive says

May 16, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Facebook had massive penetration among social media users and network effects that gave the social media platform an advantage over other rivals which was “not easy” for Google+ to copy, a former Google execut... (more story)

IAG's bid for RACWA will require Australian clearance, insurance company says

May 16, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: Australian insurer Insurance Australia Group has announced it will enter into a strategic alliance for the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia to provide general insurance products for loc... (more story)

Meta Platforms asks US court for judgment against FTC midway through monopoly trial

May 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms asked a US federal court today to enter judgment in its favor as part of an ongoing monopolization trial in a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, saying the agency has... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

SK Telecom faces mounting class-action lawsuits over massive data breach

May 16, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

Asia

SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, is facing a growing wave of class actions following a massive data breach affecting more than 24 million of its users — nearly half of South Korea’s populati... (more story)

Australian children's privacy code may tackle targeted ads, location tracking

May 16, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Oceania

Targeted advertising and location tracking by apps and businesses are among the issues about which Australia’s privacy regulator is seeking feedback from children, young people and parents as it develops the c... (more story)

China Chongqing hospital summoned over cybersecurity lapses, patient-data risks

May 16, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: A hospital in Chongqing, China, was summoned by the local Internet regulator due to deficiencies in its cybersecurity management, according to a statement from the Chongqing Internet Information ... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

NeoGenomics opposes US PTAB discretionary denial, citing public health concerns

May 15, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

A bid by Natera Inc. to short-circuit inter partes review of its oncologic testing patent should be denied, petitioner NeoGenomics Laboratories told the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board yesterday, because Nate... (more story)

UK data bill AI ‘ping-pong’ to change course as government invokes spending limit

May 15, 2025 | Frank Hersey

Europe

Uncertainty for artificial intelligence developers and the UK’s creative sector continues as the executive chamber once again stripped changes from a data reform bill intended to protect rights holders from sc... (more story)

ARPC petitions USITC to investigate refrigeration equipment from China

May 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: ARPC LLC, manufacturer of Fridge Defend products, filed a petition with the US International Trade Commission alleging 10 Chinese companies violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act by importing ref... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

New AML/CFT guidelines clarify audit timeframes, New Zealand authorities say

May 16, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs, the Financial Markets Authority and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand have published an updated version of their anti-money laundering and counter-terr... (more story)

Ex-Safemoon executive’s cars, home buys traced by US agent to liquidity removals

May 16, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

An Internal Revenue Service agent traced former Safemoon chief executive Braden John Karony’s purchases of cars, homes and other assets to removals from a liquidity pool at the center of his US fraud trial.

Tornado Cash co-founder’s cryptocurrency case can proceed to trial, US says

May 15, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

The case against Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm can proceed to trial after clearing a government review into whether it was consistent with new US Justice Department policy toward certain cryptocurrency c... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US SEC, Finra withdraw joint 2019 statement on broker-dealer crypto custody

May 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority that it oversees issued a joint statement withdrawing their 2019 statement regarding broker-dealer custod... (more story)

Meta, other platforms get mixed message over UK code banning fraudulent ads

May 15, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Meta Platforms and other tech giants looking ahead to UK guidance on preventing fraudulent advertising online have a mixed message after the regulator responsible today refused to recognize the tight delivery ... (more story)

Unicredit-Banco BPM sees EU review lengthen due to national request

May 15, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Andrew Boyce

Europe

The EU review of Italian bank UniCredit’s plan to buy national rival Banco BPM has been extended by two weeks, to June 19, after a national authority asked the European Commission to transfer the probe. The It... (more story)

Trade View More

China urges US to end Section 232 measures, calls for equal dialogue

May 16, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China has urged the US to cease the imposition of Section 232 tariffs on imported automobiles, steel and aluminum, as well as to halt the Section 232 investigation into imported pharmaceuticals, ... (more story)

CBP announces antidumping evasion investigation into tubular goods importers

May 15, 2025 | Zack Budryk

Asia, North America

US Customs and Border Protection this week announced an investigation of possible antidumping duty evasion of two importers of Chinese oil country tubular goods. The probe concerns allegations that Commercial ... (more story)

Silicon metal from five countries under US microscope for duties

May 15, 2025 | Bradley Dress

Asia, Europe, North America

Two US metallurgical companies argued before the US International Trade Commission today that they have been harmed by five countries dumping and subsidizing imports of silicon metal, a grey and semi-conductiv... (more story)

State Aid View More

Adnoc seeks EU foreign subsidy clearance for Covestro deal

May 15, 2025 | Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst

Europe

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has sought EU foreign subsidy approval for its plan to take over German chemicals group Covestro, MLex has learned. The European Commission will now have 25 working days to decid... (more story)

Française des Jeux sees EU decision in French state aid case published

May 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has issued its earlier decision to approve French government support to gambling operator Française des Jeux. The commission said — following an in-depth probe and France'... (more story)

State aid rules for housing to be reviewed by EU Commission

May 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission will review the state aid instruments available to governments to support the building or renovation of homes, as part of an Affordable Housing Action Plan expected in 202... (more story)

Energy View More

Globally-binding tool to fight environmental crimes adopted by Council of Europe

May 15, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

Crimes against climate and the environment could now be legally pursued under the "Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law" adopted yesterday by the Council for Europe, the interna... (more story)

Global oil demand set to slow amid economic issues, record EV sales, IEA says

May 15, 2025

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

MLex Summary: Global oil demand growth is expected to slow for the remainder of this year due to economic challenges and record electric vehicle sales, the International Energy Agency says today in its monthly... (more story)

Utilita Energy, PayPoint settle over UK dominance-abuse claim

May 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Utilita Energy has settled its antitrust damages claim against PayPoint, according to an order from the UK's specialist antitrust court. The lawsuit concerns an alleged abuse of dominance over th... (more story)

Technology View More

BiT Global cryptocurrency antitrust suit likely to be dismissed, US judge says

May 16, 2025 | Alex Wilts

North America

A US judge told BiT Global today that her “inclination” was to dismiss the company’s antitrust lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.

UK digital ID market has room to grow, but regulation remains a concern

May 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK digital identity market has grown steadily over the past four years and now generates more than 2 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) annually, a government report has found. But policy and regu... (more story)

TikTok could face fine for EU Digital Services Act ad transparency failings (update*)

May 15, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

TikTok breaches rules in the EU’s Digital Services Act on publishing an advertisement repository, the European Commission said in preliminary probe findings today. ByteDance's video-sharing platform doesn’t pr... (more story)