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Antitrust, Technology
December 29, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
December 26, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Technology
December 24, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Antitrust View More
December 30, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
A senior adviser at a top economic think tank under China’s main planning agency has laid out a broad blueprint for governing the platform economy, calling for graded, full-chain and technology-enabled regulat... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Malaysia’s competition regulator has issued a proposed decision alleging that 31 childcare-service enterprises in Kelantan took part in a price-fixing cartel, potentially exposing them to financi... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s competition regulator released a policy report on Tuesday that analyzes competition issues related to the collection and management of data by large businesses and proposes regulato... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Cabinet Council approved a plan Tuesday to restructure the Ministry of National Defense, centralizing and strengthening oversight of the adoption of artificial intelligence across n... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The South Korean parliament’s research unit has called for additional measures to better address social issues arising from the increasing use of conversational services provided by artificial in... (more story)
December 29, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A Texas federal court has granted Eliza Labs' motion to dismiss with prejudice all antitrust claims against X Corp, according to an order filed at the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 30, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan’s antitrust watchdog is set to recalibrate its enforcement in 2026, stepping up protection for smaller businesses and policing Big Tech under a new smartphone law, as debates emerge over how competition ... (more story)
December 29, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Semiconductor firms Axcelis Technologies and Veeco Instruments received foreign direct investment clearance for their planned merger from Ireland on Dec. 10 and from Germany on Dec. 22, according... (more story)
December 29, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Marketing software creators Adobe and Semrush filed their US merger antitrust paperwork on Dec. 18, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission; the companies minimum man... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea said it will tighten and standardize rules for cancelling ISMS and ISMS-P security and privacy certifications after hacking incidents or personal-data breaches, with the new criteria ... (more story)
December 29, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian data protection authority has outlined its strategic direction for the next two years, approving a roadmap of priority themes and updating its regulatory agenda to incorporate the recently enacte... (more story)
December 29, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Social media giants and other online platforms that host user-generated content will be starting the new year puzzling over urgent questions thrown up by an EU Court of Justice ruling that threatens new data p... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 29, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Masimo’s attempt to reinstate a limited-exclusion order to bar the import of Apple watches over patent infringement claims was dismissed in District of Columbia district court last week after the US Internatio... (more story)
December 29, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Cabinet Office is seeking public comment on a draft principles code that would press generative AI businesses to disclose model training and web crawling practices and respond to limited training-data ... (more story)
December 26, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Major copyright cases at the EU Court of Justice — involving generative AI, press publishers and streaming platforms — will likely come to judgment in 2026, testing how far EU law can adapt to platforms’ power... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 29, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins should appear at a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing for the first time since he assumed office in April, said Representative Maxine W... (more story)
December 29, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
With more than two years under his belt, UK fraud agency boss Nick Ephgrave could be forgiven for being quietly satisfied with his time so far at the helm of the Serious Fraud Office. But 2026 will see that ea... (more story)
December 24, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A new UK roadmap for tackling corruption promises to tackle financial crime and dirty money flows, crack down on professional enablers, and speed up Serious Fraud Office investigations with AI. But only signs ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 26, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
While dismissing EU countries’ request for finance-simplification packages, the bloc’s executive arm wants to show that all its legal proposals are aimed at streamlining the rules. The European Commission is, ... (more story)
December 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian Financial Services Authority, or OJK, which oversees the country’s banking and financial services sector, has issued new regulation Number 32 of 2025 on so-called "buy now pay late... (more story)
December 24, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
The vast majority of US banks would enjoy loosened regulatory oversight under a US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency proposal amending 2008 financial crisis rules. The proposal would raise the threshol... (more story)
Trade View More
December 30, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China will adjust tariffs and refine export duties on selected raw materials from Jan. 1, 2026, under a broad tariff-adjustment plan aimed at supporting advanced manufacturing, the green transition and public ... (more story)
December 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s tariff authority said Monday it will implement a revised tariff framework from Jan. 1, 2026, introducing provisional import tariffs on 935 products while keeping tariff-rate quota managem... (more story)
December 29, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s trade remedies authority is notifying interested parties of antidumping measures due to expire between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2026, and will no longer issue separate expiry notices for indiv... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Corsair is set to benefit from €167.8 million in support after the EU approved the state aid from France following an in-depth probe. In a statement, the European Commission said the aid for the ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
More European industries will benefit from compensation under the bloc’s state aid rules as technical guidelines get an update to ensure companies don’t shift activities outside of the EU to countries with wea... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech government's planned €18 million support for three digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, was incompati... (more story)
Energy View More
December 26, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
The administration of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s early AI overhaul has succeeded in reviving momentum after some delay due to domestic politics, but his AI policy agenda now faces tougher regulator... (more story)
December 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission moved to tighten oversight of plastic imports by introducing separate customs codes for virgin and recycled plastics and stepping up monitoring of EU and global markets, l... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
The British Chamber of Commerce has listed 25 recommendations to the UK government in order to improve ties between the EU and UK, five years after the trade agreement between the two regions was concluded. Th... (more story)
Technology View More
December 30, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Live Nation and subsidiary Ticketmaster asked a US federal court to dismiss a "baseless" monopolization lawsuit brought against it by the Department of Justice and a coalition of states and territories, saying... (more story)
December 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Live Nation and subsidiary Ticketmaster asked a US federal judge to dismiss the "baseless" monopolization lawsuit brought against it by the Department of Justice and 40 states and territories. In... (more story)
December 29, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: 4Chan says the US judge overseeing its lawsuit against the UK's Ofcom should not dismiss the suit, arguing that the company has authority to sue the regulatory agency because it does not have the... (more story)