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Financial Crime, Financial Services, Trade
July 16, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Technology
July 16, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
July 15, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Antitrust View More
July 17, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Price-comparison websites Kelkoo and Foundem have unrealistic demands for disclosure of documents ahead of a trial of their UK antitrust lawsuits over search shopping practices, Google told a UK judge today. K... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Fashion house Pierre Cardin and its licensee Ahlers have seen the European Commission release the public version of its earlier decision to fine them for an illegal agreement. Last year, the EU a... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Shipping companies SAS, Grandi Navi Veloci and MOBY have offered remedies to close an Italian antitrust probe. SAS, which is controlled by shipping group MSC, agreed to sell its 49 percent share ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 17, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
AI companies operating in Slovenia will see the country’s telecom and media authority designated to enforce the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, with three other authorities overseeing issues with insurance, ... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Africa,Asia,Europe,Latin America,Middle East,North America,Oceania
MLex Summary: The world’s leading AI developers are generally improving their risk-management practices, but all still have wholly inadequate frameworks, according to reports by two monitoring bodies. SaferAI ... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
A group of Dutch news media outlets has formed the country's first national collective database to be licensed for training artificial intelligence, a move which aims to avoid them having to sue AI companies f... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: De Watergroep and Farys have won antitrust approval to create the joint venture Waterunie Operator, active in public water supply, on condition that they don't share commercially sensitive inform... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Mitie Group has gained UK national security approval and Irish foreign direct investment clearance for its acquisition of Marlowe. The facilities-management company agreed to buy the fire-securit... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Danish state has won EU approval for its plan to take over the operator of Copenhagen and Roskilde airports. The European Commission said the deal raised no concerns. It investigated whether ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries, students, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and a group of food assistance recipients filed an amended complaint against the US De... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Facebook executives and a group of shareholders reached a settlement today in litigation alleging Facebook prioritized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and other senior leadership over the company’s fiduciary r... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Trive Credit has paid a 180,000 euros fine imposed by the Spanish Data Protection Agency for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The company had failed to comply with the regul... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 17, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court has upheld a lower court ruling that exhibit panels and narrated scripts used in a city-run literary museum qualify as employer-owned works under the country’s work-for... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Global influenza vaccine company Seqirus’ opposition to US pharma giant Moderna’s patent application over a method for producing high-purity mRNA suitable for use in vaccines has been accepted by a delegate of... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
In a recent ruling on a patent-validity dispute, China’s highest court has offered critical clarifications on how to identify individual technical elements in patent claims and how to interpret those claims wi... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Belgium, Spain, Poland and Portugal have been told to transpose changes to EU rules on money laundering regarding administrative penalties and other infringement measures into their national laws... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Businesses grappling with Australia’s new anti-money laundering laws will be expected to maintain a focus on reducing money-laundering risks, despite the challenges posed by the new regime, the c... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong has been acquitted of all charges tied to the 2015 merger of Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T, after South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld earlier rulings t... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: This year has seen a notable increase in complaints in the UK against the Financial Conduct Authority relating to peer-to-peer lending platforms, the Financial Regulators Complaints Commissioner ... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has urged Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Austria, Poland and Sweden to fully transpose EU bank resolution rules into national law. The rules refer to c... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Prudential Regulation Authority — the Bank of England's regulatory arm — has issued its final rules on how UK banks, building societies and other designated firms should manage large exposure... (more story)
Trade View More
July 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade has sustained the Commerce Department's method for calculating the dumping rate assigned to Dutch mushrooms.
July 17, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has determined that hexamine imports from China are being dumped into the US and subsidized.
July 17, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia, North America
Nvidia is deepening its presence in China, resuming sales of its H20 graphics processing units and promoting a new chip tailored for the country's dynamic smart plant and robotics industries. On Monday, the co... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 16, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Jean Comte
Europe
EU powers to block bidders backed by foreign subsidies from distorting public tenders have triggered a surge in workload, but the quality of the submissions and awareness of the rules is unsatisfactory, the Eu... (more story)
July 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies owning forests in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France — as well as the access roads to such forests — will be eligible for direct grants, under a 40 million-eur... (more story)
July 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: France has secured European Commission approval for its plan to grant up to 531 million euros (around $620 million) to La Poste, to compensate the postal operator for the costs incurred in carryi... (more story)
Energy View More
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nine EU member states must appoint an authority responsible for monitoring and enforcing the application of the EU rules on methane emissions, the commission said today. They must also notify the... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today urged Ireland, Latvia and Portugal to accelerate permitting for renewable and infrastructure projects by implementing the revised Renewable Energy Directive. In a pr... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has referred Hungary to the EU’s Court of Justice, for contradicting the bloc’s position on intra-EU arbitrations under the Energy Charter Treaty. Hungary’s unilateral dec... (more story)
Technology View More
July 17, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
A recent US Supreme Court decision allowing states to implement laws requiring age verification to access online pornography is spilling into discussions about social media regulations.
July 17, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Video-sharing platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo and Twitch will have to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act in full from July 25, the same day the media regulator starts enforcing additional measures... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Seven crypto ATMs have been seized in southwest London, and two individuals arrested, as part of a joint operation by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and the Metropolitan Police. The unnamed i... (more story)