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Financial Crime
November 21, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security
November 21, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Trade
November 20, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Antitrust View More
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Google has agreed to change the way it seeks users' consent for its services, the Italian competition authority said on Friday. Google's consent request will provide "clearer and more accurate in... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Roffie Kuniawan
Asia
A former Indonesian antitrust commissioner told an interest-rate cartel hearing that the 0.8 percent daily lending-rate cap set by members of the fintech association AFPI could constitute cartel behavior even ... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Yonnex Li
Asia
China's battery-materials sector is attempting to halt a destructive price war by publishing cost benchmarks, a move aimed at bringing transparency to an industry where prices have plummeted 80 percent over th... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 21, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Upstage AI, a startup based in Seoul, San Francisco and Tokyo, announced Friday it received a Japanese government certification for its Japanese-language LLM co-developed with Karakuri, a Japanes... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea’s Ministry of SMEs and Startups recently unveiled a nationwide initiative to help small manufacturers cope with demographic and economic pressures by adopting artificial intelligence. The AI-Based ... (more story)
November 20, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice charged two US citizens and two Chinese nationals in a scheme to illegally ship Nvidia’s advanced semiconductor chips for powering artificial intelligence to China. T... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 21, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
As cabinetmakers MasterBrand and American Woodmark respond to the US Federal Trade Commission’s second request, the companies will find it difficult to evade conversations about national market-share estimates... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
French company Vivendi is due to appear at a closed hearing at the European Commission on Dec. 10 over allegations its media operation influenced that of takeover target Lagardère before the deal was approved ... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Asia, Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has received German foreign direct investment clearance for its takeover of chemical company Covestro, the final approval it needed to complete the €14.7 billion deal. Germany’s ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 21, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Meta Platforms has said it will appeal a Madrid court ruling ordering it to pay about €542 million to 87 Spanish media companies for unfair competition linked to its advertising practices on Facebook and Instagram.
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Valencian International University has been fined €650,000 for breaching the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, the Spanish Data Protection Agency said on Friday. By using a software fo... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms has been ordered by a Madrid commercial court to pay a total of €542 million to a coalition of 87 Spanish media companies, after finding that the company’s advertising practices am... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
November 21, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Computer scientist Stephen Thaler, who tried to name an AI program as the inventor of two patents, has been refused permission to appeal over the refusal of an attempt to instead list himself as the inventor. ... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Expanding beyond trademarks, the EU Intellectual Property Office promises that its new Copyright Knowledge Center can coordinate EU and global copyright initiatives and support transparency, licensing and AI t... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
PlayTech, a developer of online gambling games, has lost permission to have its trade secrets claim against Realtime SIA, a Latvian games developer, heard in the UK after a judge on Friday agreed with an appea... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 21, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Smartmatic's parent company, SGO Corp., was arraigned on charges filed over its alleged role in a scheme to bribe a Philippine official for $182 million in contracts to provide voting machines an... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Securities and Exchange Commission said it was dropping a lawsuit accusing SolarWinds Corp. and its chief information security officer of failing to warn investors about lax cybersecurity standards befo... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A "billion-dollar" money-laundering network active in the UK bought a bank in Kyrgyzstan to evade sanctions on Russia and finance Moscow's Ukraine war effort, UK investigators said on Friday. They were reporti... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Eurosystem central banks saw updated guidance on consolidated banking data published in the EU's official bulletin on Friday. The European Central Bank revised its 2021 framework to include large... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK financial sector has been asked for feedback on the Financial Conduct Authority's approach to set regulatory fees in the coming year. Its annual consultation is followed by further engagem... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The European Commission has formally put into doubt the legality of the Italian government's wide powers to constrain banking mergers. The move follows the harsh conditions imposed by Rome on UniCredit's i... (more story)
Trade View More
November 21, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Commerce Department is requesting information on foreign subsidies of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty. Comments must be submitted by the end of the year.
November 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A coalition of US trailer manufacturers this week petitioned the US Commerce Department to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on Canadian, Mexican and Chinese imports of van-type trailers.
November 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department is requesting input on any countries subsidizing softwood lumber imports from Jan. 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025. Comments must be submitted by Dec. 4 so Commerce can submit... (more story)
State Aid View More
November 21, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst, Andrew Boyce and Lewis Crofts
Europe
The outcome of the EU's foreign-subsidy review of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's Covestro acquisition has few lessons to offer dealmakers in the way of certainty, given that the concessions extracted appeare... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech Republic has won approval for its plans to give a direct grant worth around €450 million to Onsemi, to support the US chipmaker's investment in a new integrated chip manufacturing facil... (more story)
November 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Compensation paid by the Swedish Maritime Adminstration to Stockholms Hamn is state aid if the wholly owned municipal company is an undertaking and the support gives it an advantage, the EU Court... (more story)
Energy View More
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has warned all but one EU member state over their failure to fully transpose the recast Energy Efficiency Directive into national law. The directive, which sets a binding ... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has urged Portugal to fully comply with the EU rules on ecodesign and energy labeling of products. The commission said Portugal has not met its obligations to properly mon... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has urged Poland to fully transpose EU rules simplifying and speeding up permits for renewable energy projects. The revised Renewable Energy Directive required national tr... (more story)
Technology View More
November 21, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Online platforms now have a clear timeline for paying fees to the UK online safety regulator and guidance on qualifications and exemptions, although one final consultation on details of the regime was opened o... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Telecom operators Tre, Telenor and Tele2 have been ordered by Sweden’s telecom regulator PTS to block certain 4G phones that will be unable to reach the emergency number 112 once 2G and 3G networ... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms have a final chance to provide feedback on fees to the UK regulator Ofcom as it opens a consultation on the Online Safety Act’s fees regime. A fourth consultation is open until J... (more story)