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Financial Crime, Technology
November 11, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Trade
November 11, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
November 11, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Antitrust View More
November 12, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australian construction company John Holland Group and the Construction, Forestry, Maritime and Energy Union, a labor union, have voluntarily terminated anticompetitive agreements made in Decembe... (more story)
November 11, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil’s betting industry isn’t just attracting lawmakers — it’s drawing a lineup of enforcement agencies. As Congress advances regulation, the Brazilian competition authority is stepping in alongside the Mini... (more story)
November 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Macedonian Thrace Brewery is Tuesday appearing at an Amsterdam court to push for damages from Heineken, following an antitrust abuse of the Greek beer market. The company said a hearing is taking... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 12, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Every Australian public official will have access to artificial-intelligence tools under a new government plan for the adoption of AI by government departments. In announcing the new AI Plan, Min... (more story)
November 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: AI developers in the UK will soon face new obligations under legislation aimed at curbing child sexual abuse imagery, the government has announced. The measure, introduced as an amendment to the ... (more story)
November 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU businesses should not rely solely on algorithms for hiring and firing decisions, say European lawmakers calling on the European Commission to establish a new bill for protections from “algorit... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 12, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Caterpillar’s proposed acquisition of Australian mining-software company RPMGlobal has sparked a public review under Australia’s new mandatory-notification regime. In an entry on its website, the... (more story)
November 11, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: Brazilian antitrust authority councilor Diogo Thomson de Andrade has requested an in-depth economic analysis of Navemazônia Navegação's acquisition of Waldemiro P. Lustoza (WPL), following challe... (more story)
November 11, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Petlove, a rival to Petz and Cobasi in the pet care market, commissioned a study the results of which pointed to a concerning scenario of higher prices resulting from the merger of its competitors, the two lar... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Data centers, energy providers, transport networks and hospitals will face increased cybersecurity oversight under legislation which is due to be introduced to the UK parliament on Wednesday. The... (more story)
November 11, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google and Snap are asking a US federal court to throw out claims by school districts over their social media apps’ allegedly negative impact on children and teenagers, arguing evide... (more story)
November 11, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
AI chatbots such as ChatGPT occupy a gray area under the UK’s Online Safety Act, regulator Ofcom has admitted, as a senior official sought to clarify how generative AI tools fit within the law. Ofcom's approac... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
November 11, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
California’s Proposition 50 redistricting could unseat two of the few US House members who are consistently active in intellectual property policy — Republican Representatives Darrell Issa and Kevin Kiley — po... (more story)
November 11, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
OpenAI is considering its next steps after a German court found its models infringed copyright by memorizing and reproducing song lyrics contained in the repertoire of the plaintiff, German music rights body GEMA.
November 11, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Panasonic Automotive Systems has taken a license for Sisvel’s Wi-Fi 6 patent pool, agreeing to a $0.50 per device royalty rate.
Financial Crime View More
November 11, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Sofia Gerace
Europe
Building societies and wealth management firms are among UK financial companies not paying enough attention to their financial-crime risks, their sector regulator said on Tuesday. The FCA called for firms to u... (more story)
November 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Ukrainian nuclear power company Energoatom is at the center of a major corruption scheme involving government officials and business people, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Ukrainian police arrested... (more story)
November 11, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A subsidiary of Millicom International Cellular agreed to pay $118 million to resolve a US investigation into bribery of Guatemalan officials, the Luxembourg-based company announced late Monday. The deferred p... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A committee of UK lawmakers has asked the government to set out whether it is content with the framework for UK-EU cooperation on financial services. The request, in a wide-ranging report on the ... (more story)
November 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Mortgage Charter, which includes standards for lenders to help mortgage borrowers at times of higher interest rates, should be retired, the head of the Financial Conduct Authority reiterat... (more story)
November 10, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US market practitioners’ near-term risk concerns have soared with regard to artificial intelligence and higher long-term interest rates during the last six months, a Federal Reserve financial stability survey ... (more story)
Trade View More
November 11, 2025
Asia, North America
Mlex Summary: China has expanded its export controls on precursor chemicals, the Ministry of Commerce said in a joint statement with four other agencies on Monday. The move adds the US, Mexico and Canada to th... (more story)
November 10, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
The US government formally suspended an export-controls rule, aimed largely at China, for a year as part of a trade deal negotiated during President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Asia. When in effect, the rule... (more story)
November 10, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security has removed Chinese company Arrow China Electronics Trading Co., Ltd., and its affiliates, from an entity list. BIS said the company a... (more story)
State Aid View More
November 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved a €700 million Spanish plan to support investments in net-zero technology production. The program, open to companies across Spain until the end of 2028, will ... (more story)
November 05, 2025 | Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
The low-cost airline used a meeting with European Commission officials to reiterate arguments that the French and German governments should recoup state aid disbursed to Air France-KLM and Deutsche Lufthansa d... (more story)
November 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Chinese rail company CRRC is under investigation at the European Commission, on suspicion that its inclusion in a bid to construct part of the metro system in Lisbon may have benefited from forei... (more story)
Energy View More
November 11, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Beijing has unveiled new guidelines linking the country’s fast-growing artificial intelligence and cloud computing sectors with its clean-energy ambitions, calling for greater use of renewable power to run hig... (more story)
November 10, 2025
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: More than half of the countries responsible for the lion's share of global emissions have a total renewable energy pipeline that exceeds their existing fossil fuel capacity, a sign of momentum of... (more story)
November 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A blackout in North Macedonia on May 18 this year was triggered by overvoltage that caused a separation between the country’s transmission networks, according to an expert panel led by the Europe... (more story)
Technology View More
November 11, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Online platforms will see an update in relation to the UK Online Safety Act's register of categorized services published on Wednesday, watchdog Ofcom has said, adding that a judicial review initiated by Wikipe... (more story)
November 11, 2025 | Madeline Hughes and Patricia Figueiredo
Europe, North America
Age assurance technologies to protect children online should be used more widely, a senior official for the UK's communications regulator has told a US audience, arguing that the era of “age-blind” internet is ending.
November 11, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for swift legislative action to curb hate speech and misinformation online, condemning discriminatory remarks based on race and nationality that have spread across s... (more story)