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Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security
March 26, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Data Privacy and Security
March 26, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Trade
March 26, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe, North America
Antitrust View More
March 27, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Philippine antitrust and privacy officials have identified a lack of consumer choice in data collection as a key concern during a recent dialogue on social media and search platforms, noting that... (more story)
March 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Kimberly Baumgarten, a former employee of Epic Games, has argued to a federal judge in Washington, DC, that her trial subpoena for the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Meta shoul... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, who was recently fired as Federal Trade Commissioner, told US lawmakers today that she is worried about the fate of a lawsuit the FTC brought against pharmacy benefit managers as no si... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 27, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
North Korea’s leader has ordered its military to make artificial intelligence and the development of unmanned devices the top priority in modernizing the country's armed forces, in a rare direct reference to t... (more story)
March 26, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti
North America
Tech giants OpenAI and Microsoft will continue to face copyright infringement claims, US District Judge Sidney H. Stein ordered today, in three lawsuits alleging that ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot trained il... (more story)
March 26, 2025 | Amy Miller and Emma Whitford
North America
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic can continue using music lyrics to train its large language model, and it has escaped, for now, allegations that its customers facilitated copyright infringement. But ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 27, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Newly unveiled penalty scales for merger-control violations by China’s top competition regulator strike a balance between strictness and leniency, an advisor to China’s cabinet said. The guidelines introduce e... (more story)
March 27, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s competition watchdog has issued draft merger-process guidelines designed to assist dealmakers in understanding how to interact with the regulator over the notification of deals under ... (more story)
March 27, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The Altano International GmbH subsidiary Altano New Zealand’s acquisition of the specialist horse-veterinary practice Matamata Veterinary Services may limit consumer choice in the Waikato region,... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 27, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: An unidentified organization in Pingxiang, located in China's Jiangxi province, received a warning and correction order from the local public security authority for failing to meet data security ... (more story)
March 27, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s mandatory cyber liability insurance policy will get a major overhaul because of low participation among companies and complaints about expensive premiums. The Personal Information P... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Woori Card, a major South Korean credit card company, has been fined 13.5 billion won (about $9.2 million) by the country's privacy regulator for illegally using the personal data of merchant owners without pr... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 26, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
A bipartisan group of Senators reintroduced the Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act today, a bill that would establish a task force between the US Patent and Trademark Office and Food and Drug ... (more story)
March 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board will bifurcate its decision-making process over whether to institute patent challenges, US Patent and Trademark Office Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart announ... (more story)
March 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Microsoft and OpenAI must face US copyright infringement claims filed by The New York Times and other news outlets over AI models, a federal judge ruled. US District Judge Sidney H. Stein denied ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 27, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The founder of tech startup Frank and the firm’s chief growth officer lied to banks about the size of its userbase, the very thing that had made the company valuable, prosecutors said today in their closing ar... (more story)
March 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A civil forfeiture complaint was filed in US federal court alleging that $47 million in proceeds from the sale of nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian petroleum is forfeitable as property of, or a... (more story)
March 26, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Martin Coyle
Europe
Former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes’ argument that Libor permitted traders to take a personal profit into account when submitting borrowing rates is “anathema to the fundamental concept of an independent... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 26, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
Paul Atkins, President Donald Trump’s nominee for US Securities and Exchange Commission chair, and Jonathan Gould, the pick for Office of the Comptroller of the Currency chief, say in prepared remarks to the S... (more story)
March 26, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK government is set to reform Individual Savings Accounts — ISAs — as it seeks to channel retail investment away from cash and into stock-market investments. The finance ministry said in a statement that ... (more story)
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Representatives of EU member states today approved the postponement of the application of certain corporate sustainability reporting and due-diligence requirements, as well as the transposition d... (more story)
Trade View More
March 27, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The US decision to impose 20 percent additional tariffs on Hong Kong products is expected to have a "limited impact" on the city's trade, Acting Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Be... (more story)
March 27, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China has urged the US to stop what it described as its wrongful practices and pledged to take necessary actions to protect the legitimate rights of its companies, following the inclusion of doze... (more story)
March 26, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
The US Commerce Department has determined that certain Indian lined paper products were sold at less than normal value in the US.
State Aid View More
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Parties interested in Finnish support to Helsinki bus operator, Koiviston Auto, formerly Helsingin Bussiliikenne, have until April 28, 2025 to file comments to the European Commission. In 2019, t... (more story)
March 25, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Greek power company Dimosia Epicheirisi Ilektrisimou is at the bloc's first-tier court today to challenge a European Commission decision which found that a preferential tariff, set by an arbitrat... (more story)
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Compensation granted by the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg to Deutsche Bahn's unit DB Regio — for the provision of regional passenger train services between 2002 and 2012 — is in line wi... (more story)
Energy View More
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The second mid-term matching round to coordinate EU gas purchases aggregated 29 billion cubic meters of demand for gas from European companies, and almost 20 bcm were matched, the commission has ... (more story)
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The power supply of the Netherlands must be reliable and sufficient when renewables are not sufficiently available, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets says in a paper about resource ad... (more story)
March 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission presented today a strategy to bolster the EU’s preparedness to handle human-made and natural threats, notably in terms of ensuring the continuity of essential services, st... (more story)
Technology View More
March 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Amy Klobuchar has introduced two bills to sanction conduct in drug markets, one that would prohibit so-called "pay-for-delay" schemes, in which a brand name drug or biological company ... (more story)
March 26, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Online platforms should see the guidelines on trusted flaggers adopted by the end of the year, a European Commission official told MLex today. The public consultation for the draft guidance is set for the seco... (more story)
March 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter spoke before a House subcommittee on commerce over how President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her and Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya undermines... (more story)