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US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Mark Christie.

Artificial Intelligence

April 17, 2025 | Emma Whitford

North America

Trump seizes on emergency powers with order to meet AI-fueled energy demand
Satellite photo of Europe at night

State Aid

April 17, 2025 | Jean Comte and Lewis Crofts

Europe

EU’s cross-border aid programs need faster processes, governments urge
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.

Data Privacy and Security

April 16, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

US judge blocks Ohio’s social media age-gating law as unconstitutional

Antitrust View More

Japan's order against Google prioritized timely action over monopolization charge

April 18, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

Asia

Japanese antitrust experts have commended the Japan Fair Trade Commission's issuance of a cease-and-desist order against Google, addressing the company's default setting arrangements for search apps. It marks ... (more story)

Beijing market regulator targets Big Data price discrimination, bundling sales

April 18, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: Beijing's market regulator has rolled out multiple measures to address irregularities in online sales, such as “best price guarantees,” during a meeting yesterday with platform companies includin... (more story)

Shipping, auto, real estate, pharma firms confer with SAMR on arbitrary fees

April 18, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia

Seven companies from diverse sectors — shipping, autos, dairy, real estate, electronics, hospitality and pharmaceuticals — have engaged with the country's top competition regulator on arbitrary business fees. ... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

China's NDRC signs cooperation agreements with Vietnam on railways, AI

April 18, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China's National Development and Reform Commission announced today that it has signed two cooperation agreements with Vietnamese authorities. The documents, finalized during Chinese President Xi ... (more story)

China's NDRC inks deals with Cambodia on Belt and Road, AI, industry development

April 18, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China's National Development and Reform Commission yesterday signed three cooperation documents with Cambodian authorities, according to a statement issued by the commission. The three documents,... (more story)

Nvidia CEO reaffirms commitment to China market amid US trade tensions

April 18, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia,North America

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pledged to continue serving the China market during meetings with Chinese trade officials in Beijing, emphasizing the company's efforts to balance competing demands from the US and Chin... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

US OCC publishes letter on conditional approval of Capital One-Discover merger

April 18, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has issued a letter addressing the background of the Capital One-Discover merger, its legal authorization, public comments and conditions to the deal... (more story)

Capital One-Discover merger gets conditional approval from US OCC

April 18, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced that it has conditionally approved the merger of Capital One and Discover. 

US FTC's GTCR-Surmodics challenge joined by Illinois, Minnesota

April 17, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

North America

Illinois and Minnesota have joined the US Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit seeking to block GTCR BC Holdings' $627 million acquisition of Surmodics. The FTC's amended complaint also adds GTCR, LLC as an addi... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

China issues cross-border financial data transfer guidelines to financial institutions

April 18, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: Six Chinese government departments, including the central bank and the Internet regulator, have jointly issued a set of compliance guidelines for financial institutions in a bid to boost and regu... (more story)

China rejects UK drone data concerns, calls for improved bilateral relations

April 18, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: China has never requested, nor will it ever request, companies to collect or store data unlawfully, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian. Lin made the remarks in response to a medi... (more story)

Meta, X face privacy scrutiny over AI training with user data in South Korea

April 18, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

Asia

A privacy complaint from South Korean civil society groups over Meta Platform and X’s alleged unlawful collection of personal data for artificial intelligence training is the focus of a preliminary fact-findin... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Meril denied pause on injunction by UPC appeal court in Edwards suit

April 18, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Europe

The UPC Court of Appeal rejected Meril’s request to suspend an injunction issued against it in a patent infringement case brought by Edwards Lifesciences. Meril argued that the lower court decision was procedu... (more story)

Meril’s request for suspending injunction denied by UPC Appeal Court

April 18, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Meril Life Sciences has failed to pause the Unified Patent Court's earlier decision ordering the medical devices producer to cease-and-desist, recall and destroy products that were found to infri... (more story)

Pharma deals remain viable despite China-US trade tensions, legal expert says

April 18, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia

Biopharma licensing deals and related intellectual property exchanges remain possible even in the context of recent escalating trade tensions between China and the US, Robert Merges, a co-founder of the Berkel... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Celsius Networks founder asks for year and a day in prison in US fraud case

April 18, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Alexander Mashinsky, the founder of cryptocurrency lender Celsius Networks, asked a US judge to sentence him to a year and a day in prison after he pleaded guilty to defrauding his customers. 

Safemoon executive's cryptocurrency fraud case to go to trial, US says

April 18, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The cryptocurrency fraud case against Safemoon LLC executive Braden John Karony has cleared a US government review and will proceed to trial, prosecutors said in a court filing. 

Iranian man charged in US for allegedly operating darknet marketplace

April 17, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Behrouz Parsarad, an Iranian national, was indicted in the US over his alleged role as the founder and operator of Nemesis Market, a dark web marketplace for illegal drugs and criminal cyber-serv... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US Senator Warren decries reports CFPB is laying off almost all staff

April 17, 2025

North America

MLex summary: US Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, decried reports that President Donald Trump's acting US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director sent reduction... (more story)

Ukraine signs memo of intent on minerals deal with US

April 17, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine's first deputy prime minister and minister of economy, said in a statement on X that Ukrainian officials have signed a memorandum of intent that paves the way toward an ... (more story)

Fed requests comment on capital requirements proposal

April 17, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Reserve requested comments on a proposal to reduce the volatility of the capital requirements stemming from the Board's annual stress test results.

Trade View More

USTR sets May 19 hearing for Chinese crane tariff proposal

April 18, 2025

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US Trade Representative Office announced a May 19 hearing for its proposal to charge tariffs on Chinese ship-to-shore cranes and other cargo equipment. USTR said in a Federal Register notice ... (more story)

US CIT sustains resumed antidumping investigation into Mexican tomatoes

April 18, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade has sustained the Commerce Department’s resumed antidumping duty investigations into Mexican fresh tomatoes.

Indian melamine materially injures US industry, USITC determines

April 18, 2025

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission has determined that dumped and subsidized imports of Indian melamine materially injure US industry.

State Aid View More

Norway wins EFTA state aid nod for offshore wind farm

April 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Norway has secured approval by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for its plan to fund a program to develop a wind farm in Utsira Nord, located in the North Sea. The farm will raise renewable energy... (more story)

EU law for state aid exemption needs simplification, member states say

April 15, 2025 | Jean Comte

Europe

The EU General Block Exemption Regulation needs to be simplified, according to comments from several member states seen by MLex. The legal text, which sets out some conditions to exempt state aid from the Euro... (more story)

Spanish renewable hydrogen plan wins EU state aid approval

April 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Spain has won European Commission approval for its plan to spend 400 million euros to boost its generation of renewable hydrogen. Production will be supported through the “Auctions-as-a-Service” ... (more story)

Energy View More

Clarification on ‘omnibus’ law due-diligence checks, fines proposed by Poland

April 17, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Jean Comte

Europe

EU companies caught under the scope of the bloc’s due diligence law could see reduced supply chain obligations and potential fines capped at 5 percent of their net global turnover, according to a Polish propos... (more story)

First compromise text on ‘omnibus’ simplification law presented

April 17, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: EU countries have taken a step forward on the first “omnibus” simplification law covering sustainability and due-diligence reporting duties, with the presentation of a compromise text. Poland, wh... (more story)

Steel, textiles, tires among focus of EU ecodesign, energy labeling updates

April 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Steel and aluminum, textiles, furniture, tires and mattresses are the products to be prioritized over the next five years in ecodesign and energy labeling requirements, according to a working pla... (more story)

Technology View More

US DOJ says Chrome divestiture will 'pry open' search, text ad markets

April 17, 2025 | Clayton Vickers

North America

The US Department of Justice told a federal court that any remedies the court adopts following Google’s monopolization of the search and text ad markets must pry those markets open to restore competition, prim... (more story)

ITIF says US judge's Google adtech ruling fails to appreciate 'platform dynamics'

April 17, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Joseph Coniglio, director of antitrust and innovation for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, said today that US District Judge Leonie Brinkema "took an extremely narrow view of... (more story)

New York AG committed to opening adtech markets after win in Google US antitrust suit

April 17, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The New York attorney general said her team looks forward to continuing the Google adtech monopoly case to help restore competition to online advertising platforms after a US federal judge found ... (more story)