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Data Privacy and Security
August 12, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Technology
August 12, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Data Privacy and Security
August 11, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Antitrust View More
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: BKR, the operator of Burger King in South Korea, has been fined 300 million won (about $220,000) and issued corrective orders by the country’s competition regulator for forcing franchisees to pur... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's lithium industry should resist cuthroat "involution-style" competition that drives down prices and erodes service quality, the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association's lithium divis... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Epic Games’ antitrust court win over Apple and Google this week is an example of how private enforcement of competition laws can complement public enforcement and has the potential to enhance det... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The de facto transition team for South Korea’s new president today unveiled 123 national policy goals to pursue over the next five years, including plans to spur artificial intelligence, biotechn... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Malaysia today unveiled its first National Cloud Computing Policy, a “whole-of-nation” strategy to accelerate digital transformation through a sovereign, secure, inclusive and sustainable cloud e... (more story)
August 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Apple responded to accusations by Elon Musk that it gives preferential treatment to OpenAI on its App Store, saying the store is designed to be fair and "free of bias." An Apple spokesperson said... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
August 13, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Greater flexibility for the deal-value threshold is warranted to protect small Indian companies from global tech giants. A parliamentary committee report warned that the current fixed threshold of $240 million... (more story)
August 12, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Representatives from Brazil’s executive and legislative branches, along with major rival Petlove, raised concerns over a potential approval of the merger between Petz and Cobasi, the two leading companies in B... (more story)
August 12, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
The US Justice Department supports the US Department of Transportation’s tentative decision to not renew antitrust immunity for the alliance between Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico, according to a comment submi... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: US chipmaker Micron is pulling out of the global mobile NAND-memory market amid challenging financial performance and decelerating growth, a spokesperson said in a written statement to MLex. The ... (more story)
August 12, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Meta Platforms moved to overturn the recent historic jury verdict that the digital ads giant violated California's wiretapping law by collecting the personal data of women who used the Flo Health period-tracke... (more story)
August 12, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
US appeals court judges raised questions of whether state attorneys general have control over documents possessed by other state agencies and can obtain them as evidence in carrying out enforcement activities ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
August 13, 2025 | MLex Staff
North America
US design-software specialist Figma has reached a global settlement with Singapore-based rival Motiff, resolving intellectual property disputes between them, the two companies announced on Wednesday.
August 12, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The controversial firing of former US Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter is raising questions over the Copyright Office’s proper role within the federal government and the legality of her firing, and evok... (more story)
August 12, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
The question of US court jurisdiction over requests for fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory license terms to portfolios containing foreign standard essential patents could be before the US Court of Appeals ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
August 12, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Do Kwon, cofounder and former chief executive officer of Terraform Labs, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit commodities fraud, securities fraud and wire fraud, and one count of c... (more story)
August 12, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Terraform Labs cofounder Do Kwon pleaded guilty today to two fraud counts stemming from a $40 billion collapse of his decentralized financial empire, according to court records. Kwon was charged ... (more story)
August 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The use of technology tools in anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism supervision has improved data quality, enhanced collaboration, and led to more efficient risk identi... (more story)
Financial Services View More
August 11, 2025
North America
A US Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City research paper says the GENIUS Act establishing a framework for stablecoin regulation could increase demand for US Treasuries but only by reducing loans to the economy.... (more story)
August 11, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
Terraform Labs cofounder Do Kwon is expected to plead guilty to charges stemming from a $40 billion collapse of his decentralized financial empire, according to a notice posted today to the court docket. He wa... (more story)
August 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Europe's banking sector remained robust in the first quarter of 2025 despite an increased cost of risk, the European Banking Authority said today. The common equity tier 1 ratio for EU and Europe... (more story)
Trade View More
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce announced in a preliminary ruling that imports of rape or colza seeds from Canada were being dumped in China, causing material damage to the domestic industry. The mi... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s industry and finance ministries have decided today to launch an anti-dumping investigation into hot-dipped galvanized steel coils, sheets and strips — equipped with anti-rust protection —... (more story)
August 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
The US Court of International Trade today sustained a 2024 Commerce Department final antidumping determination on boltless steel shelving units prepackaged for sale from Thailand in a ruling against US manufac... (more story)
State Aid View More
August 12, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission opened a public consultation on the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, the legal text that allows the executive to scrutinize — and possibly to place conditions on or veto —... (more story)
August 11, 2025 | Jean Comte and Lewis Crofts
Asia, Europe
Companies receiving foreign subsidies haven't secured much clarity on when their merger deal or public procurement awards risk being called in for review by the European Commission. The institution's draft gui... (more story)
August 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Interested parties have until Sep. 5 to provide input on technical updates of the Emissions Trading System state aid guidelines. The European Commission started the review to address the fact tha... (more story)
Energy View More
August 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Commitments by four major US semitruck manufacturers to end an agreement to reduce the output of internal combustion-engine trucks protect competition while advancing President Donald Trump’s mis... (more story)
August 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sweden and Lithuania have been granted additional time to decide on cross-border electricity price risk hedging, energy regulator ACER said in a statement today. The decision concerns strategies ... (more story)
August 12, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
The EU's plan to phase out Russian gas imports by 2027 may look feasible on paper, but legal and industry experts warn that implementation will be far more complex. Terminating long-term gas contracts under fo... (more story)
Technology View More
August 13, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Khushita Vasant
North America
American Express’s requirements for merchants that accept its credit cards raise prices for consumers and block competition for merchants, class action plaintiffs argued in their opening statement at a civil a... (more story)
August 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission closed its investigation into whether several truck and engine manufacturers and their trade association violated antitrust laws by entering the “Clean Truck Partn... (more story)
August 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Elon Musk accused Apple of behaving in a manner that "makes it impossible" for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach the number one spot on the Apple App Store. In a series of posts on X, Musk s... (more story)