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November 29, 2024 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust
November 29, 2024 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Financial Services
November 29, 2024 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Antitrust View More
November 29, 2024 | Chris May
North America
MLex Summary: Johns Manville Corp. won't be granted a new trial after a US federal jury found the company liable for violating the Sherman Act by engaging in anticompetitive threats to withhold its products fr... (more story)
November 29, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Mexico's competition authority said it respects the will of Congress of the Union, which approved a reform to dissolve the Mexican Economic Competition Commission, or Cofece, to reform the consti... (more story)
November 29, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Epic Games and Apple are “at or close to an impasse” in a discovery dispute over Apple’s attempt to claw back 305 purportedly privileged documents, Epic told a California federal judge while accu... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 29, 2024 | Frank Hersey
Europe
OpenAI’s deal with GEDI Gruppo Editoriale to buy access to the archives of the group’s news titles to train its artificial intelligence models is in doubt, as Italy’s data regulator warns it could breach EU da... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The chair of the European Data Protection Board has replied to the director of the EU’s AI Office, noting that consistency and cooperation with other regulatory authorities is a strategic priorit... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Gruppo GEDI, an Italian newspaper publisher, has received a formal warning from the country’s data watchdog over its plan to sell its archive to OpenAI for training its artificial intelligence mo... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 29, 2024 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
Google has submitted more information to the Brazilian competition authority regarding its license and release agreement with Character AI as officials investigate a potential gun-jumping violation for failing... (more story)
November 29, 2024 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense approved Brasil Tecpar's acquisition of Nova Rede, analyzing potential impacts on fixed broadband, fixed telephony, data centers and wholesale telecommunic... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: EasyJet, International Airlines Group and Air France-KLM have received European Commission approval as "suitable remedy takers" for the concessions offered by Lufthansa and the Italian Ministry o... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 29, 2024 | Nicholas Wallace
Europe
A Romanian court has asked EU judges to clarify whether a publisher that emails a daily newsletter to customers who sign up for a free account needs to obtain consent under the bloc's data-protection rules. Th... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The local government of Turin, northern Italy, has been fined 50,000 euros by the national Data Protection Authority, for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The city had publi... (more story)
November 29, 2024 | Freny Patel
Asia
Google's handling of real money gaming app listings on the Play Store has led the Indian antitrust authority to raise concerns over the use of alleged unfair business practices. The Competition Commission of I... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK financial industry has seen the Financial Conduct Authority publish an updated version of its Financial Crime Guide. The regulator said the changes focus on areas where firms wanted additi... (more story)
November 29, 2024 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Commodities giant Trafigura and a former top executive will face off in a Swiss court on Monday over allegations that five million euros in bribes were paid to an Angolan official linked to Sonagol through an ... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: UK fintech lender Wise has said it takes its anti-money laundering controls "very seriously," following reports that it faced scrutiny from the National Bank of Belgium. Wise said recommendations... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: European banks remain robust and with strong capital positions while facing slow economic growth and downside risks due to geopolitical tensions, according to the latest risk assessment report by... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The Prudential Regulation Authority has designated 14 UK banks as systemically important. The list includes Barclays, Citigroup Global Markets and Credit Suisse International. The watchdog also i... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Small domestic deposit takers in the UK have seen the Prudential Regulation Authority issue the final mechanism by which firms can join the Interim Capital Regime. The ICR will enable eligible fi... (more story)
Trade View More
November 29, 2024 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU and Mercosur companies will have to wait for the trade agreement between the two trading blocs to be sealed, with disagreements over environmental clauses still remaining despite more talks today, MLex has ... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Heidi Alexander has been named the new UK transport minister. Formerly the deputy Mayor of London, Alexander led the city's work on transport between 2018 and 2021, and will lead the work on the ... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The World Trade Organization members today agreed to appoint incumbent Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to a second term as Director-General. Her second four-year term, which was approved at a special General... (more story)
State Aid View More
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies involved in electric-vehicle charging and hydrogen-vehicle refilling have details of a European Commission proposal to include these technologies under the scope of the Measuring Instru... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Storage technologies in Bulgaria will be eligible for direct grants under a government plan worth 590 million euros aimed at backing investments in electricity storage facilities that was cleared... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: DB Cargo, a unit of the state-owned German railway operator Deutsche Bahn, can have 1.9 billion euros in support from the German state, the European Commission said today. The authority assessed ... (more story)
Energy View More
November 29, 2024 | Stefano Porciello and Jean Comte
Europe
Han ten Broeke is set to lead the cabinet of Wopke Hoekstra, the commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth. He recently said that improving existing technologies like gasoline and diesel engines to c... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: EU member states, required to refill their underground gas storage facilities to 90 percent by Nov. 1, 2025, have been set five intermediate refilling goals, starting in February. The targets set... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today published a set of technical clarifications on various elements of the EU Taxonomy, a classification system to identify environmentally sustainable economic activiti... (more story)
Technology View More
November 29, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has asked TikTok for additional information about how it is mitigating the risk of election interference in the context of elections in Romania on Dec. 1. The EU's executi... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: A monitoring panel at the Japanese industry ministry that is examining large digital platforms’ relations with business users in online malls, app stores, and digital ads said in a draft report t... (more story)
November 29, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: A Japanese government panel is proposing legal measures to introduce an active cyberdefense system. The panel said operators of key infrastructure should report security incidents and attacks on ... (more story)