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Jean-Paul Servais

Financial Services

November 05, 2025 | Neil Roland

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America

Credit-default swaps still illiquid, opaque, Iosco says
Data points on a dark screen next to Cambridge Analytica

Data Privacy and Security

November 05, 2025 | Mike Swift and Maria Dinzeo

North America

Meta faces possible privacy suit from Conn. over Cambridge Analytica case
Two flags flapping in the wind, one for Euronext, one for the EU.

DealRisk®, Financial Services, Mergers and Acquisitions

November 04, 2025 | Jean Comte and Andrew Boyce

Europe

Euronext’s Greek deal to test ease of stock exchange consolidation across borders

Antitrust View More

Meatpackers say US beef pricing claims fall short on class certification

November 05, 2025 | Clayton Vickers

North America

Attorneys for JBS, Cargill, National Beef Packing and other meatpackers told a federal judge that several putative plaintiff classes suing them for alleged cattle and beef price fixing each fall short on the d... (more story)

Respite for WhatsApp as Indian tribunal voids data-sharing ban in dominance case

November 05, 2025 | Freny Patel

Asia

The ban on data sharing between WhatsApp and Meta Platforms has been revoked by an Indian tribunal, offering the US social media platform major relief. However, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal not ... (more story)

WhatsApp dominance abuse confirmed, but Indian tribunal overturns 5-year data-sharing ban

November 05, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy update constituted an abuse of dominance, an Indian tribunal ruled on Tuesday. While the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal upheld the penalty imposed by the a... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Gains in physical AI lift South Korea, but dependence on foreign tech a risk

November 05, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo

Asia

South Korea is rapidly positioning itself as a global hub for “physical AI,” forging major partnerships with Nvidia and other US tech leaders to integrate artificial intelligence into manufacturing, robotics a... (more story)

Disney, Warner Bros. consolidate copyright lawsuits against AI company Midjourney

November 04, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Warner Bros. Entertainment and Disney have agreed to consolidate their separate lawsuits accusing generative AI image generator Midjourney of copyright infringement in the Central District of Cal... (more story)

Microsoft backs US DOJ, states' proposed remedies in Google search monopoly case

November 04, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Microsoft filed a brief urging a US federal judge to include generative artificial intelligence products and reject Google’s attempt to continue its anticompetitive multi-year distribution agreem... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

LNM Invest's acquisition of Bai Center can proceed, following New Caledonia green light

November 05, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: LNM Invest has received the green light to acquire Bai Center, with New Caledonia’s mergers watchdog announcing it was “unlikely” that vertical integration of the relevant markets would lead to t... (more story)

Interrupting Metsera bidding process would wrong, Delaware judge says

November 04, 2025 | Wesley Brown

North America

A ruling on a pending motion from Pfizer to block a bid by Novo Nordisk to buy Metsera during the ongoing bidding process would be wrong, according to a Delaware Court of Chancery Judge. Vice Chancellor Morgan... (more story)

Pfizer tells Delaware court it meets requirements to block Novo-Metsera merger

November 04, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Pfizer told a Delaware chancery court that without a temporary restraining order to protect the status quo, Metsera can terminate its merger agreement and proceed with its proposed acquisition of... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Reddit, Kick to be captured by Australia's social-media ban

November 05, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: Online forum Reddit and Australian streaming platform Kick have been added to the list of platforms to be captured by the social-media ban for children under 16, the online safety regulator has s... (more story)

GDPR needs 'risk-based' changes to combat heavy economic burden, study finds

November 04, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU's General Data Protection Regulation has imposed heavy and uneven economic burdens that risk eroding the bloc’s tech competitiveness, according to a new study by Bocconi University’s Franc... (more story)

Platforms face new UK curbs on violent porn in push to expand online safety law’s scope

November 04, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Online platforms hosting pornographic or adult content will face tighter UK rules under plans to criminalize depictions of strangulation and suffocation in the latest expansion of the scope of the Online Safet... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Suno moves to redact transcript of record companies' US copyright hearing

November 04, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Suno requested that a US court redact certain portions of a transcript of an October 10 status conference in a copyright case brought by record labels. The record labels did not oppose the motion.

Apple’s amended US trade secret complaint targets OPPO’s avoided costs

November 04, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

Briefing opens later this month on Apple's bid to enjoin a former sensor-system architect it accuses of trade secret misappropriation. In an amended US complaint Monday, the software giant singled out Chen Sh... (more story)

Getty Images weighs appeal options after UK court losses in Stability AI case

November 04, 2025 | Frank Hersey

Europe

Getty Images has said it is considering its options for appeal after a UK court largely found in favor of Stability AI in the stock image library’s complex case on trademark and copyright infringement. The det... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

FTX's Bankman-Fried faces skeptical US court over claim of unfair fraud trial

November 05, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Europe, North America

A US federal appeals court was skeptical of claims made Tuesday by a lawyer for FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried that his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges stemmed from an unfair trial. “From my readi... (more story)

UK mobile operators agree to block scam calls from abroad within one year

November 05, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

UK mobile network operators including BT EE, VodafoneThree and Virgin Media O2 have agreed to block scam calls from abroad that show up as coming from domestic numbers within one year, the UK government has sa... (more story)

North Korean bank, bankers sanctioned by US for money laundering

November 04, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned eight individuals and two entities for their role in laundering funds derived from a variety of illicit North Korean s... (more story)

Financial Services View More

UK finance ministry puzzles lawmakers over workings of critical third parties law

November 04, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

UK finance ministry officials and the minister for financial services Lucy Rigby were accused of misstating how their own legislation on critical third party designations works as they explained the process to... (more story)

UK FCA is best suited to regulate AML at law firms, lawmaker Rigby says

November 04, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Sofia Gerace

Europe

The UK Financial Conduct Authority is “best suited” to take on anti-money laundering regulation for law firms, senior lawmaker Lucy Rigby said Tuesday. In October, the finance ministry said the FCA would take ... (more story)

Climate, sustainability investments reached €51bn last year, EIB says

November 04, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Investment Bank invested a total of €51 billion in climate action and sustainability last year, the bank said in a press release on Tuesday while presenting its new sustainability re... (more story)

Trade View More

CRRC targeted in EU foreign-subsidy probe of Lisbon Metro tender

November 04, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

Chinese rail company CRRC has triggered an in-depth probe into the potentially distortive effect of foreign subsidies in a tender to expand Lisbon’s metro, MLex has learned. The European Commission suspects th... (more story)

EU lawmakers support new safeguards, tighter oversight of US trade deal

November 04, 2025 | Jackson Cooper and Oscar Pandiello

Europe

Proposals to introduce various mechanisms to protect the EU from aspects of the trade deal agreed with the US in August have received broad support from lawmakers in the European Parliament’s trade committee. ... (more story)

De Gregorio Merino appointed to lead EU Commission’s legal service

November 04, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

Alberto de Gregorio Merino is the new head of the European Commission’s powerful internal legal department. The EU executive announced the appointment Tuesday, saying he will take over from previous incumbent ... (more story)

State Aid View More

EU study shows how the Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework helps investments

November 04, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission issued a document on Tuesday analyzing how the Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework contributes to speeding up investments needed to reach Clean Deal goals. The frame... (more story)

Czech Republic calls to simplify General Block Exemption Regulation

November 03, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU General Block Exemption Regulation, which defines conditions for state aid to be exempted from EU-level approval, must be simplified, the Czech Republic said in a note circulated in Octobe... (more story)

Italian aid for net-zero tech manufacturing capacity in Lazio gets EU approval

November 03, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: An Italian initiative to provide €219 million in direct grants to support manufacturing capacity for the production of net-zero technologies in the region of Lazio has been approved by the Europe... (more story)

Energy View More

Energy-efficiency industry urges stable EU rules for cheaper, greener buildings

November 04, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Europe’s energy efficiency and construction industries have called for stable EU regulation and financing to expand affordable, efficient housing, to create local jobs and to cut energy costs. In... (more story)

Clean aviation, maritime should see €100bn investments by 2035, EU roadmap says

November 04, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi and Luca Bertuzzi

Europe

The sustainable aviation and maritime transport sectors in the EU should receive around €100 billion of investment by 2035, according to the European Commission’s sustainable transport investment plan seen by ... (more story)

Swiss Enet Energy fined €1m for attempting to manipulate Spanish gas market

November 04, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Enet Energy has been fined €1 million by Spain’s energy regulator for attempting to distort wholesale gas prices in eight 2023 trading sessions. In a statement on Tuesday, CNMC said the Swiss-bas... (more story)

Technology View More

Korea-based Android developers file amended US antitrust complaint against Google

November 04, 2025

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The Korean Publishers Association, Korea Electronic Publishing Association and others filed a second amended US complaint accusing Google of unlawfully monopolizing the global markets for Android... (more story)

NetChoice, Chamber of Progress back Google in US Supreme Court fight against injunction

November 04, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: NetChoice and the Chamber of Progress told the US Supreme Court that allowing an injunction against Google to stand would lead to widespread judicial interference not only in the app store market... (more story)

Former security officials, scholars back US Supreme Court reversing Google injunction

November 04, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Former national security officials and scholars told the US Supreme Court that forcing Google to make changes to its app store would fly in the face of precedent by placing the district court at ... (more story)