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Financial Crime
November 21, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security
November 21, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Trade
November 20, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Antitrust View More
November 22, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Internal Zillow documents presented as evidence during antitrust litigation brought by Compass Inc. over access to home-listing data essential to the entire residential real estate industry showed that Zillow ... (more story)
November 22, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Google pushed back on arguments by users of its mapping products trying to revive antitrust claims that center on the Google Maps terms of service, with a lawyer for the tech giant telling a three-judge panel ... (more story)
November 22, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
A Virginia federal judge Friday expressed concerns about the US Department of Justice’s proposed remedy to break up Google’s digital advertising technology business, questioning the government about how much t... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 21, 2025 | Mike Swift and Maria Dinzeo
North America
Controversial artificial intelligence tools including Clearview AI facial recognition have become key tools for the FBI, the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board said in a report that discloses the a... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Federal Reserve Governor Philip Jefferson discounted comparisons of artificial intelligence stock swings with the 1990s dot-com boom, saying the current era poses less of a threat to financial stability. “I... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Design software provider Figma was accused of illegally using users’ data for training artificial intelligence for its own benefits, including boosting market valuation, in a new US lawsuit filed in California.
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 22, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
JC Medical and its parent company, Genisis Medtech, were “all aligned in avoiding" the government notification process for JC Medical's acquisition by Edwards Lifesciences, according to an internal text submit... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
As cabinetmakers MasterBrand and American Woodmark respond to the US Federal Trade Commission’s second request, the companies will find it difficult to evade conversations about national market-share estimates... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
French company Vivendi is due to appear at a closed hearing at the European Commission on Dec. 10 over allegations its media operation influenced that of takeover target Lagardère before the deal was approved ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US federal judge denied Meta Platforms’ request to disqualify Rita Singh, an expert for the plaintiff in a lawsuit over Meta’s collection of users’ biometric data, because Meta had engaged in d... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Jam City has agreed to a $1.4 million settlement to resolve allegations that it collected users’ personal information for targeted advertising without giving consumers a straightforward way to opt out.
November 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Jam City, a company that creates games based on popular shows including Frozen and Harry Potter, will pay $1.4 million to resolve alleged violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, Attorn... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
November 21, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office’s acting commissioner of patents wrote in a court declaration this week that the Trump administration designation of patent examiners as performing “national security” work i... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Computer scientist Stephen Thaler, who tried to name an AI program as the inventor of two patents, has been refused permission to appeal over the refusal of an attempt to instead list himself as the inventor. ... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Expanding beyond trademarks, the EU Intellectual Property Office promises that its new Copyright Knowledge Center can coordinate EU and global copyright initiatives and support transparency, licensing and AI t... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 21, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo, Madeline Hughes
North America
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc. directors have agreed to a $190 million settlement resolving claims that they failed to stop Facebook’s repeated privacy violations and structured an e... (more story)
November 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Facebook executives and a group of Meta Platforms shareholders have agreed to a $190 million settlement in a lawsuit that alleged Facebook prioritized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and other se... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Smartmatic's parent company, SGO Corp., was arraigned on charges filed over its alleged role in a scheme to bribe a Philippine official for $182 million in contracts to provide voting machines an... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Reserve announced that it will extend until Feb. 21 the comment period on its proposal to improve stress test model and scenario transparency and accountability.
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Eurosystem central banks saw updated guidance on consolidated banking data published in the EU's official bulletin on Friday. The European Central Bank revised its 2021 framework to include large... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK financial sector has been asked for feedback on the Financial Conduct Authority's approach to set regulatory fees in the coming year. Its annual consultation is followed by further engagem... (more story)
Trade View More
November 21, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US mushroom industry on Friday urged the International Trade Commission to find that Canadian imports of fresh mushrooms injured domestic growers and packers with dumped and subsidized product.
November 21, 2025 | Zack Budryk and Eliana Hubacker
North America
The administration of US President Donald Trump faces increasing pressure from rising food prices as it develops trade policy, compelling the White House to exempt several products from the tariffs that have b... (more story)
November 21, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Commerce Department is requesting information on foreign subsidies of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty. Comments must be submitted by the end of the year.
State Aid View More
November 21, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Asia, Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has received German foreign direct investment clearance for its takeover of chemical company Covestro, the final approval it needed to complete the €14.7 billion deal. Germany’s ... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst, Andrew Boyce and Lewis Crofts
Europe
The outcome of the EU's foreign-subsidy review of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's Covestro acquisition has few lessons to offer dealmakers in the way of certainty, given that the concessions extracted appeare... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech Republic has won approval for its plans to give a direct grant worth around €450 million to Onsemi, to support the US chipmaker's investment in a new integrated chip manufacturing facil... (more story)
Energy View More
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has warned all but one EU member state over their failure to fully transpose the recast Energy Efficiency Directive into national law. The directive, which sets a binding ... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has urged Portugal to fully comply with the EU rules on ecodesign and energy labeling of products. The commission said Portugal has not met its obligations to properly mon... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has urged Poland to fully transpose EU rules simplifying and speeding up permits for renewable energy projects. The revised Renewable Energy Directive required national tr... (more story)
Technology View More
November 21, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Immediate questions about the European Commission's plans to revise its digital laws to make them simpler and cut red tape dominated a key annual Brussels gathering of data protection professionals. But while ... (more story)
November 21, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Online platforms now have a clear timeline for paying fees to the UK online safety regulator and guidance on qualifications and exemptions, although one final consultation on details of the regime was opened o... (more story)
November 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Telecom operators Tre, Telenor and Tele2 have been ordered by Sweden’s telecom regulator PTS to block certain 4G phones that will be unable to reach the emergency number 112 once 2G and 3G networ... (more story)