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Antitrust
September 15, 2025 | Chris May and Khushita Vasant
North America
Financial Crime
September 15, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Energy
September 12, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Antitrust View More
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An investigation into whether Swisscom's broadband services for business breached antitrust rules has been discontinued, the Swiss Competition Commission said on Tuesday. The regulator's announce... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has stepped up its investigation into Nvidia’s compliance with antitrust law, confirming that the case has moved into a "further investigation" phase as Chinese and US officials held their latest round o... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea inaugurated Ju Biung-ghi as chair of the Korea Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday, where he laid out a sweeping agenda to advance market fairness and structural reform. Ju, an economics... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 16, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Poland has proposed postponing the EU AI Act’s penalty regime for high-risk AI systems by six or 12 months, according to a document seen by MLex. The plan would suspend the article on sanctions but not regulat... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China issued the 2.0 edition of its Artificial Intelligence Safety Governance Framework on Monday during the 2025 National Cybersecurity Week, building on the initial version released in Septembe... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
At the Global Privacy Assembly in Seoul, privacy regulators and experts called for a shift from broad principles to concrete enforcement in governing artificial intelligence, warning that fragmented national a... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 16, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Andrew Boyce
Europe
A new approach to reviewing EU mergers needs to emerge faster, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has said. The regulator’s merger enforcers are currently consulting on new guidelines meant to ... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An initial probe of Accent Wire’s planned buyout of rival manufacturer DR Baling Wire is starting in the UK, the antitrust regulator said. The Competition and Markets Authority said it will decid... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Australia's new mandatory and suspensory merger regime runs the risk of capturing deals and general commercial transactions that pose no competition risks, Australia’s lawyers have warned government in an elev... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 16, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia, Europe
South Korea has formally recognized the European Union’s data-protection regime as equivalent to its own, completing a process that establishes for the first time a reciprocal framework for seamless personal d... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will adopt a series of measures to tighten app governance amid a broader push to protect personal data, a senior official said. Speaking at a forum in Yu... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The Australian government has launched new guidelines to help protect the country against identity fraud. In a statement announcing the new National Identity Proofing Guidelines, Attorney General... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
September 16, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top intellectual property regulator has improved the efficiency and quality of its handling of patent appeals and invalidation requests, new figures released at a conference in Beijing show.
September 16, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America
Switzerland, Sweden, the US, the UK and Singapore rank at the top of global innovation, while China breaks into the top 10, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization. Research and development g... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea has pledged to ease regulatory hurdles for artificial intelligence developers by adopting fair-use guidelines for copyrighted content and revising related laws as early as November. The government ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
September 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A federal jury in Miami, Florida, convicted a US businessman for his role in a nearly five-year scheme to bribe Honduran government officials and to launder money to secure business for a Georgia... (more story)
September 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In a filing, Mexican national Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez argued that the “main character” of his corruption case is his co-defendant, fugitive businessman Mario Alberto Avila Lizarraga. Th... (more story)
September 12, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A Georgia businessman bribed Honduran officials to win business and to get paid on government contracts, prosecutors said Friday in their closing argument of his corruption trial, while the defense said he had... (more story)
Financial Services View More
September 16, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK investors need a clear and predictable regulatory framework to channel billions of pounds into transition finance to help high-emitting sectors decarbonize, the country's minister for financial services says*.
September 15, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European Banking Authority has said it has initiated the appointment process to select a new chair, following José Manuel Campa's surprise announcement of his resignation for family reasons. The new chair ... (more story)
September 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has outlined a set of features for EU countries to adopt when establishing frameworks for Savings and Investment Accounts, in a draft recommendation seen by MLex. The comm... (more story)
Trade View More
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Making Europe one of the leading continents for artificial intelligence is the mission of the next decade, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday. Speaking at a confer... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top legislature has unveiled draft revisions to the Foreign Trade Law that aim to modernize the country’s framework for international commerce while expanding Beijing’s legal arsenal for countering for... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Europe, Middle East
MLex Summary: EU duties to counter subsidization of imports of rainbow trout from Turkey will expire on May 26, 2026, unless EU producers file a substantiated request for a review with the trade regulator, the... (more story)
State Aid View More
September 16, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU should make state aid less burdensome, the Czech Republic said in a document circulated to member states last week and seen by MLex. The note also pleads for making rules more flexible and to have more ... (more story)
September 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has started a full investigation into whether Slovenia’s transfer of assets from the municipality of Ljubljana to pharmacy chain Lekarna Ljubljana complied with EU state a... (more story)
September 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austria has won its legal challenge to Hungary's investment aid for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Paks II power station. In a judgment delivered on Thursday morning, the EU'... (more story)
Energy View More
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU should introduce additional measures to support what remains of Europe’s solar manufacturing base, said the European Solar Manufacturing Council and SolarPower Europe in a letter sent to t... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Oil and gas field output is declining at a faster pace worldwide due to increased reliance on shale and deep offshore resources, the International Energy Agency said in a report on Tuesday. Only ... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission should set a 100-percent purchase target of zero-emission vehicles for corporate fleets in its upcoming proposal on the topic, lobby group Eurelectric said in a paper publ... (more story)
Technology View More
September 16, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s online-safety watchdog has published regulatory guidance for tech companies, designed to help them comply with Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age obligation, which will take effect ... (more story)
September 15, 2025 | Chris May and Khushita Vasant
North America
Unless a US federal judge’s decision on how to address Google’s monopolies over web search and search advertising gets a revamp, antitrust enforcers may have “lost our opportunity to fix this market,” a former... (more story)
September 15, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Two California bills aimed at enhancing online protection for children have passed the state legislature as the current session comes to an end and are heading to the governor for approval.