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Financial Services
November 16, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
November 14, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Trade
November 14, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Antitrust View More
November 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: RWJ Barnabas Health filed a US complaint accusing Hudson Regional Hospital and the CarePoint Litigation Trust of conspiring to illegally monopolize the market for emergency services in Bayonne, N... (more story)
November 17, 2025 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
Italy’s lower administrative court has ruled that Ryanair’s bid to annul a confidential chargesheet in a national antitrust probe was inadmissible, and it rejected a request to suspend the investigation. The j... (more story)
November 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Dynegy and Xcel’s $16 million settlement with Wisconsin consumers of natural gas to resolve price-fixing claims has been granted preliminary approval by a US federal judge.
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 17, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The timeline of any future UK legislation on AI is unlikely to be discussed until after working groups report back on the government’s AI copyright consultation, lawmakers heard Monday.
November 17, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission will propose a postponement of the entry into application of the AI Act's requirements on high-risk AI systems, with a final decision on the exact length — likely to be between 12 and 1... (more story)
November 17, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s largest actors and voice-artists union has teamed up with trading house Itochu and its systems arm to launch what it called the country’s first official voice database, designed to protect performers f... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 17, 2025 | Anna Ferrari
Asia, Europe
Tata Motors's €3.8 billion deal to buy European truck maker Iveco has been cleared by the European Commission after the merger regulator concluded the acquisition would not raise competition concerns. The Indi... (more story)
November 17, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
The planned sale of Warner Bros. Discovery is set to yield preliminary offers this week, with the likes of Netflix and Paramount in the running, but a potential bid by Amazon has triggered questions by promine... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Molex Electronic Technologies’ proposed acquisition of Smiths Interconnect Group is being reviewed under Australia’s new mandatory merger regime. In publishing a questionnaire as part of its Phas... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Rotterdam District Court has asked the EU’s top court to rule on whether WAMCA — the Netherlands’ collective action law — imposes admissibility conditions that go beyond what's allowed under ... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Ryohin Keikaku, the Japanese fashion and lifestyle retailer better known as Muji, said Friday its user data have been implicated in the October ransomware attack on Askul, a major office-supplies... (more story)
November 17, 2025 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
Despite high-profile ransomware attacks in Japan that paralyzed supply chains of a top brewery and a major office-goods supplier in recent weeks, cyber defenses at the country's businesses remain dangerously p... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
November 17, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Supreme Court on Monday left in place a broad interpretation of safe harbor under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for e-commerce sites. Planet Green Cartridges had petitioned the court to ... (more story)
November 17, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Two petitions for writ of certiorari by Gesture Technology Partners were denied Monday at the US Supreme Court in a blow to patentees hoping to extract damages for past infringement. The nonpracticing entity ... (more story)
November 17, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top intellectual property authority has introduced sweeping revisions to its patent-examination guidelines, putting artificial intelligence and digital bitstream-related inventions under closer scrutiny.
Financial Crime View More
November 17, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Julian Aires, a California man, was sentenced to a year of home confinement over his role in a scheme to bribe South African officials on behalf of a services supplier with whom his company had a joint venture.
November 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Justice Department announced five guilty pleas and more than $15 million in civil forfeiture actions against North Korean remote information technology work and virtual currency heist sche... (more story)
November 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a finding and notice of proposed rulemaking that blocked 10 Mexican casinos from the US financial system, deeming... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 17, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK financial watchdog has asked the High Court to lift the suspension on the awarding of the bond consolidated tape, so that it can enter into a contract with selected provider Etrading Software. The suspe... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK life insurers are resilient and can sustain a severe financial market stress scenario, according to the results of the first stress test under the new Solvency UK regulatory regime implemented... (more story)
November 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: AI infrastructure concentration is emerging as a central concern for competition regulators, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said in a series of policy papers. The ... (more story)
Trade View More
November 17, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday upheld a claim from an importer that its special medical foods should be duty-free because they are used to treat ill children.
November 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit supported a claim from importer Nutricia North America Inc. that certain imported products to treat ill children are applicable under a duty-free c... (more story)
November 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Commerce was correct to determine that Turkish government’s subsidies to Nur, a shipbuilder and co-owned affiliate of Kaptan, should not... (more story)
State Aid View More
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Two Czech companies — Úsovsko Agro and Úsovsko Eko — were at the EU's first-tier court on Monday afternoon to contest a European Commission decision that ordered recovery of state aid from large ... (more story)
November 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Zenobē Energy is challenging a subsidy decision made by the UK energy regulator, according to the UK antitrust tribunal. The claimant said the regulatory board for the UK's gas and electricity ma... (more story)
November 14, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
State subsidies from the United Arab Emirates could have allowed Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Covestro to restrict competition by making the companies indifferent to risk and able to engage in “aggressiv... (more story)
Energy View More
November 17, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Denmark announced on Monday it will set at least an 82 percent emissions-reduction target by 2035 compared with 1990 levels. The figure is the lower bound of a range that goes up to 85 percent by 2035. The dom... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Seventy EU projects for recharging and refueling transport infrastructure were awarded more than €600 million ($695 million) in EU funding, the European Commission said on Monday. The funds, to b... (more story)
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback on revised EU rules introducing new binding targets for member states to achieve additional land-based carbon removals by 2030. The proposal sets out n... (more story)
Technology View More
November 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s Digital Services Act largely complements other EU legislation, reinforcing sectoral rules and contributing to a coherent framework for online regulation, according to a European Commissi... (more story)
November 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The American Antitrust Institute and Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws told the US Supreme Court that the president does not wield unrestrained power to remove commissioners at will from th... (more story)
November 14, 2025 | Clayton Vickers and Chris May
North America
A US judge inquired Friday about potentially live investigations into MultiPlan by the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Department of Labor over its allegedly anticompetitive use of pricing a... (more story)