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Financial Services
June 18, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Technology
June 18, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Artificial Intelligence
June 17, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A businessman offering waste-disposal services for healthcare facilities has been fined 60,000 euros for failing to submit information requested during a cartel investigation. The company in ques... (more story)
June 18, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense, or CADE, will rule on three cases in its next session, scheduled for June 25: the proposed acquisition of Hospital Policlínica by Unimed, a g... (more story)
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Consumer Organization BEUC asked Olivier Guersent, the head of the EU Commission's department for competition policy, to enforce stricter transparency standards on competition-relate... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 18, 2025
Africa,Asia,Europe,Latin America,Middle East,North America,Oceania
MLex Summary: The International Energy Agency has announced the establishment of a platform to monitor rising energy use from data centers and AI's interplay with the energy sector. The Energy and AI Observato... (more story)
June 18, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea may suspend the basic AI law’s provision on imposing fines for violators of obligations for some time and draft decrees and rules in such a manner as to make the law heavily prioritize AI developme... (more story)
June 18, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Siding with the prosecuting office of Beijing’s Tongzhou District, a Chinese court has upheld copyright-infringement charges brought by prosecutors in a criminal case against a Fuzhou-based e-commerce company ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: GTCR and the US Federal Trade Commission asked the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to continue the company's deadline to file a response to an amended complaint until June... (more story)
June 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Nippon Steel Corporation, together with its wholly owned subsidiary Nippon Steel North America and United States Steel Corporation, announced that they have finalized their historic partnership.... (more story)
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: US print technology company Xerox has received approval from the European Commission for its plans to take over Lexmark International. The EU merger regulator focused its review on the market for... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has issued a formal warning to Luxembourg, Hungary, and Slovakia for not fully implementing the EU rules on combating child sexual abuse. These countries failed to correct... (more story)
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is taking Bulgaria, Ireland, and Portugal to the EU Court of Justice for not meeting key obligations under the Terrorist Content Online Regulation, a law that requires onl... (more story)
June 18, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
South Korea’s privacy regulator is ramping up efforts to ensure that data issues do not escalate into trade or political disputes, its vice chairman said. The PIPC has been in discussions with the American Cha... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania has received a warning from the European Commission for its failure to bring its national Copyright Act fully in line with the bloc's copyright rules, the EU regulator said today. The sco... (more story)
June 18, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court upheld the lower court’s ruling in a multifaceted case involving patent rights, damages claims and counterclaims between Nippon Steel Technology and a former employee. ... (more story)
June 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Osaka police arrested a man for copyright violations after he manufactured and sold pirated DVDs featuring AI-assisted colorized versions of classic black-and-white films, including Toho's "Godzi... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Toyota said in a securities filing that the US Justice Department has closed its investigation into potential anti-bribery violations related to the automaker's Thai subsidiary.
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sberbank Europe, now MeSoFa Vermögensverwaltungs, has lost its legal dispute at the EU's lower-tier court against the Single Resolution Board regarding the authority's decision not to resolve the... (more story)
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK’s financial markets watchdog will undertake a “lessons learned” exercise over its attempt to change its policy on publicizing investigations. In a communication with lawmakers, the Financi... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Ante Žigman has been appointed as a new member of the management board of the European Securities and Markets Authority, starting on July 6. The Croatian representative replaces outgoing member E... (more story)
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU member states today adopted their position on the revamp of the EU rules on payment services — the revised Payment Services Directive and the new Payment Services Regulation. The new provision... (more story)
June 18, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Sofia Gerace
Europe
The first comprehensive parliamentary inquiry into UK financial sector regulators' progress in driving UK growth and international competitiveness has reported a fundamental concern: it is far from clear that ... (more story)
Trade View More
June 18, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Japanese businesses in China are calling on Chinese authorities to streamline and accelerate approval of export licenses for rare earth and other critical minerals, saying delays risk undermining supply chains... (more story)
June 18, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: New Zealand’s parliament is debating a new law designed to make it easier for New Zealand businesses to receive foreign investment. In welcoming the debate over the Overseas Investment (National ... (more story)
June 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Canada has announced additional sanctions on 77 individuals and 39 entities for Russia-related activity, as well as restrictions on trade of almost 1,000 new items with Russia, listing another 20... (more story)
State Aid View More
June 17, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
European companies in the defense sector won't be held back from building scale by EU merger-control and antitrust rules, the European Commission pledged today while unveiling initiatives to boost EU security.... (more story)
June 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU heads of state and government will stress the importance of further simplifying EU law to bolster the bloc's competitiveness, a draft of a final declaration prepared for the leaders' summit on... (more story)
June 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: There is a risk that public funds from the special infrastructure fund to modernize Germany's rail network may indirectly benefit other areas of railway group DB through cross-subsidization, the ... (more story)
Energy View More
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Poland has been referred to the EU's highest court, the European Court of Justice, by the European Commission for allegedly failing to ensure that members of the public can challenge the absence ... (more story)
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: TotalEnergies submitted the winning 180 million euro bid to develop a wind farm in the North Sea in Germany’s first offshore wind auction of 2025, European lobby WindEurope said. The auction incl... (more story)
June 18, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Multiple failures by power producers and Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica caused the Iberian blackout on April 28, said the country’s energy minister Sara Aagesen at a press conference yesterday. As detaile... (more story)
Technology View More
June 18, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
An advisory group developing the EU’s radio spectrum policy has a “slight preference” for mobile-phone operators using a valuable spectrum band that’s needed for high-speed Internet connectivity that’s fiercel... (more story)
June 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online retail platform AliExpress has breached the EU’s Digital Services Act in relation to its obligation to assess and mitigate risks linked to the dissemination of illegal products, the Europe... (more story)
June 18, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Meta Platforms has admitted the potential for excessive enforcement by its artificial intelligence-driven moderation tools, after thousands of account suspensions on Facebook and Instagram drew political backl... (more story)