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DealRisk®, Financial Services, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 01, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Financial Crime, Financial Services
March 31, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
Artificial Intelligence
March 31, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Norwegian competition authority received 151 merger notifications in 2024, the watchdog said in its latest annual report, published today. The reviews for 98 percent of these were concluded w... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Six more construction businesses should be fined for coordinating prices and information exchange with rivals, the Austrian antitrust authority said in a request made to the cartel court. The con... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Attendo Suomi has been fined 1.5 million euros by the Finnish Market Court for obstructing an onsite inspection conducted by Finnish antitrust officials in 2023. The obstruction involved the dele... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 01, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Europe's tech and digital sectors will see a policy paper on the EU’s global digital strategy issued on May 6, according to a European Commission planning document. The paper will explain how reinforcing EU’s ... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
Amid growing copyright issues involving AI, the Korea Music Copyright Association said it will only approve the registration of musical works when applicants give assurances that they did not use AI and that t... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's top safety regulator is urging developers, enterprises and users of large artificial-intelligence models to heighten their awareness of security risks, as more AI systems are being deployed on private ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sweden's antitrust authority has announced new regulations and guidelines for merger notifications, set to take effect on May 26. The update aims to streamline the review process for mergers subm... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has vowed to crack down on disorderly competition and other irregularities in the country’s automotive industry, according to its top economic planning and policy agency. It will strengthen oversight of ... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Brookfield and Pacific Equity Partners-owned Intellihub’s plans to acquire smart-metering provider Powermetric, owned by Shell Energy Operations, is set to proceed, after Australia’s competition ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 01, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: French lawmaker Philippe Latombe is at the EU's first-tier court today, seeking annulment of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Latombe argues that the agreement lacks safeguards for processed dat... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK privacy regulator has clarified its expectations on how public sector institutions should respond to Freedom of Information requests. The Information Commissioner’s Office released new gui... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China is rapidly advancing the revision of its Road Traffic Safety Law, which will be pivotal for the development and commercial use of autonomous driving technology, but the challenges are formidable, accordi... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nokia has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Acer, Asus, and Hisense in Germany and at the Unified Patent Court, alleging their PCs and smart TVs use Nokia’s video coding technologies wit... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
In a ruling that may prompt local governments and non-profits to accelerate efforts to register trademarks for their unique identifiers, the Intellectual Property High Court has overturned a decision by the Ja... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
German luxury-vehicle manufacturer BMW has successfully challenged a trademark in China that it argued bore similarities to its Mini car brand marks, following an appellate decision by the Beijing High People’s Court.
Financial Crime View More
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Representative Maxine Waters, ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, issued a statement denouncing what she called a "takeover" of the Securities and Exchange Commission by ... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Phoebe Seers
Europe
A bid to force the UK government to reveal details of any discussions between crypto exchange Binance and officials, including the former City minister, has been blocked by judges today. This follows an Inform... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Amazon, Barclays, Google, HSBC, Monzo and other big name tech companies and banks have pledged to share live data in a bid to stop fraud. Under the umbrella of the Stop Scams organization, the co... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK claims management companies will see a 250 pound charge to refer a case to the Financial Ombudsman Service come into effect today. If the complaint is found in favor of the consumer they repre... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
The author of an influential UK "future of payments" review has said recent government reforms to sector regulation have gone further than even he imagined. Joe Garner’s review set in motion events that led to... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Proactive risk management, stronger cyber resilience and a close monitoring of global financial linkages are crucial for financial entities to navigate growing geopolitical tensions and cyber ris... (more story)
Trade View More
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU has the “power to push back” against the tariff agenda promoted by the US administration, the European Commission President told EU lawmakers today. Ahead of the reciprocal tariffs expecte... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: South Korea’s regulations on the cross-border transfer of personal data were highlighted as a trade barrier for US companies in the US Trade Representative’s 2025 National Trade Estimate Report. ... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
When the US International Trade Commission asked for input on whether negotiating tactics should factor into the public interest inquiry and exclusion orders are improper in standard essential patent, or SEP, ... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Agricultural business Tartu Agro has filed an appeal at the EU first-tier court to contest the European Commission's order for Estonia to claw back public funding from the company. Last year, the... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nuctech has failed to convince judges at the EU's highest court to put an interim block on evidence gathered during raids carried out under the rules governing foreign subsidies. The company was ... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Chinese companies shouldn’t feel “targeted” by EU rules designed to combat distortive state subsidies from foreign countries, a senior EU official said today. Eddy de Smijter was responding to comments by a re... (more story)
Energy View More
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Power generation from solar registered a new high in March, breaking a record for the third consecutive month, according to data published today by EU electricity industry lobby Eurelectric. Sola... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A US judge in Delaware has granted judgment as a matter of law that technology directed to improved combustion device performance is ineligible for patenting, in a win for General Electric Co. According to the... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Renewable power generation increased significantly in 2024, with a record share of 47 percent of the power mix, while the share of fossil fuels fell to 28 percent, according to the European Commi... (more story)
Technology View More
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will require companies to report more incidents while also allowing the government more flexibility to update regulatory frameworks, says a policy paper ... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Big Tech companies, including Apple, Google and Apple’s Japanese subsidiary iTunes, have been designated under Japan's new law aimed at enhancing competition in smartphone software. The Japan Fair Trade Commis... (more story)
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms told a US appeals court that claims alleging the harmful design of its social media platform features are plainly barred by Section 230 because such claims directly target Meta’s r... (more story)