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Antitrust
May 15, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Trade
May 15, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Trade
May 15, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
Antitrust View More
May 16, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's top market regulator will intensify efforts to combat what it describes as destructive 'involution-style' competition practices, with the timing of its plans indicating a focus on the heated rivalry in... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
The Japan Fair Trade Commission has unveiled draft implementation rules for the upcoming smartphone-software competition law and opened them for public consultation. Modeled after the EU’s Digital Markets Act,... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea's major furniture companies have been found guilty on appeal in a sweeping bid-rigging case involving 2.3 trillion won (about $1.6 billion) worth of apartment furniture contracts. The Seoul High Co... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
May 16, 2025
Asia,Europe,North America
MLex Summary: Trade ministers from the US, China, and 19 other member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum unanimously adopted a joint statement today at their meeting in South Korea. There... (more story)
May 16, 2025
Asia,North America
MLex Summary: In response to the US’s latest worldwide restrictions on the use of Huawei's artificial intelligence chips, China said the US must immediately correct its wrongdoings, and vowed that China would ... (more story)
May 15, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Issues around copyright ownership dominated a hearing today on US authors' request to certify a proposed class action accusing Anthropic of illegally using their work to train its large language model Claude. ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
May 16, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Facebook had massive penetration among social media users and network effects that gave the social media platform an advantage over other rivals which was “not easy” for Google+ to copy, a former Google execut... (more story)
May 16, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australian insurer Insurance Australia Group has announced it will enter into a strategic alliance for the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia to provide general insurance products for loc... (more story)
May 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms asked a US federal court today to enter judgment in its favor as part of an ongoing monopolization trial in a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, saying the agency has... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
May 16, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, is facing a growing wave of class actions following a massive data breach affecting more than 24 million of its users — nearly half of South Korea’s populati... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Targeted advertising and location tracking by apps and businesses are among the issues about which Australia’s privacy regulator is seeking feedback from children, young people and parents as it develops the c... (more story)
May 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: A hospital in Chongqing, China, was summoned by the local Internet regulator due to deficiencies in its cybersecurity management, according to a statement from the Chongqing Internet Information ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
May 15, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A bid by Natera Inc. to short-circuit inter partes review of its oncologic testing patent should be denied, petitioner NeoGenomics Laboratories told the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board yesterday, because Nate... (more story)
May 15, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Uncertainty for artificial intelligence developers and the UK’s creative sector continues as the executive chamber once again stripped changes from a data reform bill intended to protect rights holders from sc... (more story)
May 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: ARPC LLC, manufacturer of Fridge Defend products, filed a petition with the US International Trade Commission alleging 10 Chinese companies violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act by importing ref... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
May 16, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australian digital-currency exchange provider Cointree has been fined A$75,120 ($48,268) over its alleged failure to submit timely suspicious-matter reports to the financial-crime watchdog. In a ... (more story)
May 16, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs, the Financial Markets Authority and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand have published an updated version of their anti-money laundering and counter-terr... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
An Internal Revenue Service agent traced former Safemoon chief executive Braden John Karony’s purchases of cars, homes and other assets to removals from a liquidity pool at the center of his US fraud trial.
Financial Services View More
May 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority that it oversees issued a joint statement withdrawing their 2019 statement regarding broker-dealer custod... (more story)
May 15, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Meta Platforms and other tech giants looking ahead to UK guidance on preventing fraudulent advertising online have a mixed message after the regulator responsible today refused to recognize the tight delivery ... (more story)
May 15, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Andrew Boyce
Europe
The EU review of Italian bank UniCredit’s plan to buy national rival Banco BPM has been extended by two weeks, to June 19, after a national authority asked the European Commission to transfer the probe. The It... (more story)
Trade View More
May 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China has urged the US to cease the imposition of Section 232 tariffs on imported automobiles, steel and aluminum, as well as to halt the Section 232 investigation into imported pharmaceuticals, ... (more story)
May 15, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The case against Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm can proceed to trial after clearing a government review into whether it was consistent with new US Justice Department policy toward certain cryptocurrency c... (more story)
May 15, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
US Customs and Border Protection this week announced an investigation of possible antidumping duty evasion of two importers of Chinese oil country tubular goods. The probe concerns allegations that Commercial ... (more story)
State Aid View More
May 15, 2025 | Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has sought EU foreign subsidy approval for its plan to take over German chemicals group Covestro, MLex has learned. The European Commission will now have 25 working days to decid... (more story)
May 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has issued its earlier decision to approve French government support to gambling operator Française des Jeux. The commission said — following an in-depth probe and France'... (more story)
May 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission will review the state aid instruments available to governments to support the building or renovation of homes, as part of an Affordable Housing Action Plan expected in 202... (more story)
Energy View More
May 15, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Crimes against climate and the environment could now be legally pursued under the "Convention on the Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law" adopted yesterday by the Council for Europe, the interna... (more story)
May 15, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Global oil demand growth is expected to slow for the remainder of this year due to economic challenges and record electric vehicle sales, the International Energy Agency says today in its monthly... (more story)
May 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Utilita Energy has settled its antitrust damages claim against PayPoint, according to an order from the UK's specialist antitrust court. The lawsuit concerns an alleged abuse of dominance over th... (more story)
Technology View More
May 16, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
A US judge told BiT Global today that her “inclination” was to dismiss the company’s antitrust lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
May 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK digital identity market has grown steadily over the past four years and now generates more than 2 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) annually, a government report has found. But policy and regu... (more story)
May 15, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
TikTok breaches rules in the EU’s Digital Services Act on publishing an advertisement repository, the European Commission said in preliminary probe findings today. ByteDance's video-sharing platform doesn’t pr... (more story)