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Financial Services
November 16, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
November 14, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Trade
November 14, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Antitrust View More
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Three contractors active in civil engineering in The Netherlands have been inspected by the national competition authority, to see if they entered into illegal agreements in relation to a municip... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: France's TotalEnergies was today fined €115.8 million for its role in a cartel that constrained competition in the supply of petrol on the French island of Corsica. Fuel station operator Rubis wa... (more story)
November 17, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s market regulator has urged internet platforms to move beyond a “land-grabbing” approach to competition and abandon the belief that excluding or restricting competition benefits the last ones standing. ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 17, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s largest actors and voice-artists union has teamed up with trading house Itochu and its systems arm to launch what it called the country’s first official voice database, designed to protect performers f... (more story)
November 17, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
A Shanghai court has issued the city's first ruling on copyright claims tied to artificial intelligence prompt words, finding that the plaintiff’s prompts on Midjourney lacked originality and did not qualify a... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s parliamentary research agency has urged the government to step up efforts to ease growing conflicts between copyright holders and artificial intelligence developers over the increas... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 17, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
The planned sale of Warner Bros. Discovery is set to yield preliminary offers this week, with the likes of Netflix and Paramount in the running, but a potential bid by Amazon has triggered questions by promine... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Molex Electronic Technologies’ proposed acquisition of Smiths Interconnect Group is being reviewed under Australia’s new mandatory merger regime. In publishing a questionnaire as part of its Phas... (more story)
November 14, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission will require Valvoline and private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Fund to divest 45 oil-change shops to get antitrust approval for their $625 million asset sale. Main Street Auto... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Rotterdam District Court has asked the EU’s top court to rule on whether WAMCA — the Netherlands’ collective action law — imposes admissibility conditions that go beyond what's allowed under ... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Ryohin Keikaku, the Japanese fashion and lifestyle retailer better known as Muji, said Friday its user data have been implicated in the October ransomware attack on Askul, a major office-supplies... (more story)
November 17, 2025 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
Despite high-profile ransomware attacks in Japan that paralyzed supply chains of a top brewery and a major office-goods supplier in recent weeks, cyber defenses at the country's businesses remain dangerously p... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
November 17, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top intellectual property authority has introduced sweeping revisions to its patent-examination guidelines, putting artificial intelligence and digital bitstream-related inventions under closer scrutiny.
November 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Mexican technobanda group Banda Maguey secured a settlement in its trademark and copyright litigation Friday against former members who were operating in the US. Attorney David Martinez of Robins Kaplan tells ... (more story)
November 14, 2025 | Charlotte Westphal
Europe
A UK court-ordered interim license won’t hinder patent enforcement elsewhere because other jurisdictions can make their own determination of whether the license is valid, Amazon told the EU Unified Patent Cour... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a finding and notice of proposed rulemaking that blocked 10 Mexican casinos from the US financial system, deeming... (more story)
November 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Georgia businessman Carl Zaglin should serve at least 15 years in prison after being convicted of paying bribes to Honduran officials for police uniform supply contracts, US prosecutors told a judge.
November 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Accounting and legal firm TMF Management has been fined €130,500 by Dutch prosecutors for failing to file reports over suspected money laundering to the authorities. TMF failed to report two unus... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK life insurers are resilient and can sustain a severe financial market stress scenario, according to the results of the first stress test under the new Solvency UK regulatory regime implemented... (more story)
November 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: AI infrastructure concentration is emerging as a central concern for competition regulators, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said in a series of policy papers. The ... (more story)
November 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's prudential watchdog is seeking views on facilitating life insurers' access to alternative forms of capital that do not stem from direct issuance equity or debt. The discussion paper by t... (more story)
Trade View More
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Pakistan Ethanol Manufacturers Association has filed an appeal at the EU's first-tier court, challenging the EU's move to remove preferential EU tariff access for non-fuel ethanol imports fro... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China and Switzerland held the third round of talks in Beijing from Nov. 11 to 14 on upgrading their free trade agreement, according to China's Ministry of Commerce. The two sides made positive p... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Beijing said it has agreed to meet Dutch officials for talks in China over the Nexperia semiconductor dispute, but urged the Netherlands to come with a meaningful and constructive solution. “We h... (more story)
State Aid View More
November 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Zenobē Energy is challenging a subsidy decision made by the UK energy regulator, according to the UK antitrust tribunal. The claimant said the regulatory board for the UK's gas and electricity ma... (more story)
November 14, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
State subsidies from the United Arab Emirates could have allowed Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Covestro to restrict competition by making the companies indifferent to risk and able to engage in “aggressiv... (more story)
November 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has won conditional EU foreign subsidy approval for its takeover of German chemicals group Covestro. The European Commission said commitments offered by ADNOC addre... (more story)
Energy View More
November 17, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The world's leading utility companies have pledged to increase spending on energy transition investments to a total of more than $1 trillion in the decade to 2030, led by the Utilities for Net Ze... (more story)
November 14, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Power companies Eurowind Energy and European Energy have complained to EU regulators that the Danish government's plan to provide up to €7.4 billion euros to support the construction of offshore wind farms is ... (more story)
November 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission should urgently modernize grid regulation to unlock critical infrastructure investments and accelerate the energy transition, Eurelectric said in a paper published Friday.... (more story)
Technology View More
November 14, 2025 | Clayton Vickers and Chris May
North America
A US judge inquired Friday about potentially live investigations into MultiPlan by the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Department of Labor over its allegedly anticompetitive use of pricing a... (more story)
November 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A group of 207 members of US Congress told the Supreme Court that where the text of the Constitution does not expressly resolve a separation-of-powers issue, it should look to the practical const... (more story)
November 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Removed board members from independent federal agencies and scholars filed a brief with the US Supreme Court in support of Rebecca K. Slaughter’s challenge to her removal from the Federal Trade C... (more story)