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November 21, 2024 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Financial Crime, Financial Services, Technology
November 20, 2024 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Trade
November 20, 2024 | Laine Cibulskis and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Antitrust View More
November 21, 2024
Middle East
MLex Summary: Mastercard and Visa are under investigation by the Turkish antitrust authority over whether they engaged in exclusionary practices in card scheme and digital wallet service markets. The watchdog ... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The Dutch antitrust authority has closed a probe into suspicious agreements between a large supplier of IT equipment and its distributors and retailers, which looked into sales prices. The regula... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Remedies to alleviate competition concerns arising out of merger deals are to be reviewed by the UK competition regulator, the watchdog's chief executive will say today in a speech. Sarah Cardell... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Three quarters of UK financial services companies are using artificial intelligence, with a further 10 percent planning to join them over the next three years, a report by the Bank of England and... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
A key subcommittee of South Korea’s parliament has adopted a unified draft of what would become the country’s framework law on artificial intelligence governance, significantly increasing the likelihood of the... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s privacy regulator plans to unveil final drafts of two important documents by the end of this year — an artificial intelligence privacy risk assessment and management model, and a re... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 21, 2024 | Jon Menon
Europe
LetterOne, an investment firm founded by Russian oligarchs, may challenge an appeal ruling today that validated its forced sale of regional broadband provider Upp under the UK’s national security law. LetterOn... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Russian oligarch-backed investment firm LetterOne has lost its UK court appeal over the forced sale of a broadband provider, in the first challenge to a decision made under the UK’s national secu... (more story)
November 21, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Communications Chair Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will depart the commission on January 20, the day President Donald Trump is set to take office.
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 21, 2024 | Madeline Hughes
North America
US Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel announced today that she will leave the agency on Jan. 20 as President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
November 21, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Justice Department announced the seizure of PopeyeTools, an illicit website and marketplace dedicated to selling stolen credit cards and other tools for carrying out cybercrime and fraud. ... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Jakub Krupa
Europe
The UK government will seek an early meeting with incoming EU justice commissioner Michael McGrath to discuss the EU-UK data adequacy review ahead of its expiry next year, the UK technology minister said today... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: UK companies shouldn't be guaranteed deferred prosecution agreements as part of a "radical" change in policy needed to crack down on corporate wrongdoing, a UK report said today. The Institute of... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Isobel Dos Santos, once known as Africa’s richest woman, and Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch accused of bribery, were both sanctioned by the UK government today as part of a dirty money crackdown. The mea... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Martin Coyle and Phoebe Seers
Europe
"High-volume, low-value" payment frauds are slightly up, but more serious "fear-based" scams are down since UK banks and payment providers came under a new repayment regime six weeks ago, a NatWest executive s... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 21, 2024 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU should wait to see how the upcoming Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation will be concretely applied, before thinking about tweaking EU rules in this sector, member of the European Parliament Ondrej Kovar... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Plans set out last October to regulate cryptoasset activity in the UK will be implemented in full, the minister in charge of financial services confirmed today. The government will also implement a regulated a... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The International Organization of Securities Commissions published a consultation report on pre-hedging practices today. The document provides for a definition of pre-hedging and proposes a set o... (more story)
Trade View More
November 21, 2024
Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission has determined that US industry is not materially injured by imports of aluminum extrusions from China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia,... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has issued antidumping duty orders on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China and Japan, as well as an antisubsidy duty order on printing plates from China.
November 21, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department announced that it is entering negotiations to invest up to $300 million in advanced semiconductor packaging research projects.
State Aid View More
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Italian measures in favor of Cineca, a non-profit consortium, whose members include the Ministry of Education and Research as well as universities and institutions in the country, don't constitut... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania has won state aid approval for its plan worth 578 million euros to fund the reduction of a power levy rate for energy-intensive businesses, which promotes electricity from renewable sourc... (more story)
November 19, 2024 | Natalie McNelis
Europe
Intermediate Capital Group and Imanes have sought EU foreign-subsidy clearance for a change in control over French frozen food retailer Picard. The European Commission has until Dec. 19 to decide on the deal, ... (more story)
Energy View More
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Hydrogen Europe and the Chilean Hydrogen Association, H2 Chile, have signed a memorandum of understanding to foster industry cooperation on clean hydrogen deployment and trade. The partnership ai... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Jakub Krupa
Europe
UK will look at flexibilities in the zero-emission mandate to help manufacturers meet its targets amid growing disconcert over the pace of Britain's transition to electric vehicles, the government suggested. T... (more story)
November 20, 2024
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Hydrogen Europe and the Green Hydrogen Association (GH2 India) signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to boost collaboration and promote the hydrogen sector across both regions. This partners... (more story)
Technology View More
November 21, 2024 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan's telecom regulator today proposed draft rules to implement an amended law requiring operators of social media to be responsible for removing harmful content. Influential social media platforms, such as ... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Apple told a US federal court today that the Department of Justice and multiple states suing the iPhone maker for allegedly monopolizing the smartphone market are seeking to evade well-established Supreme Cour... (more story)
November 21, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Google said the US Department of Justice's "staggering" remedy proposal in the search monopolization lawsuit would hurt consumers and America’s global technological leadership as it that seeks "d... (more story)