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Antitrust
April 04, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Financial Crime
April 04, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Financial Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade
April 04, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Antitrust View More
April 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Five businesses, including Axioma Medical, Soul Medical, Irika Knitting, Bonina Trading and Smart Mind Solutions, active in the market for medical products and equipment used in disease preventio... (more story)
April 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Veterinary clinics in Norway have been raided by the domestic competition authority, the watchdog said today, citing suspicions of illegal cooperation as a reason. The office said it seized relev... (more story)
April 07, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Korea Fair Trade Commission is soliciting research proposals to address inconsistencies in how fines are calculated under the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act, Fair Transactions in Larg... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 07, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU approaches to artificial intelligence in foreign policy and defense are to be formalized with an “AI in Security and Defense Implementation Roadmap.” This initiative, led by the bloc's diplomatic arm, will ... (more story)
April 07, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
In his first major public event since the country's president was removed from office late last week, the science minister reaffirmed the government's intention to keep regulations to a minimum in the subordin... (more story)
April 07, 2025
Europe
Consumer associations and non-profit organizations sent a letter to the European Commission today expressing concerns about the decision to withdraw the AI Liability Directive and asking to immediately start t... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: ABC Medicover Holdings has received clearance from the Polish antitrust authority to acquire control of sixteen companies of the CityFit group, the watchdog said today. But the approval is condit... (more story)
April 07, 2025 | Jean Comte and Andrew Boyce
Europe
The Italian lender, Mediobanca, has labeled the takeover attempt by its rival, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, as hostile and hopes to have it rejected. However, the deal is unlikely to raise competition concerns d... (more story)
April 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today released the public version of its earlier decision to approve plans by energy storage group VTTI and Italian grid operator Snam to acquire joint control in the dome... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 07, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Apple’s challenge over the UK government's use of a national security law to request access to users’ encrypted data won’t be held in secret, a court in London decided today. The government was seeking to have... (more story)
April 07, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Júlia Tar
Europe
Messenger services such as Meta Platforms' WhatsApp are seeing a new, slightly amended draft on the law on detecting child sexual abuse material after the last proposal in January failed to gain enough support... (more story)
April 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Questions sent from the Brussels appeals court asking whether the right to erasure enshrined in the EU's General Data Protection Regulation applies when an individual seeks to have a baptismal re... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 05, 2025 | MLex Staff
North America
The top competition officials of the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission boycotted the main event — the 2025 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting — but held forth in separate venues as antitrust figu... (more story)
April 05, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
OpenAI and Microsoft had reason to investigate and uncover copyright infringement by users of their artificial intelligence tools, a US judge in New York said, explaining why he allowed lawsuits filed by The N... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert and Flavia Fortes
Latin America, North America
Motorola and Ericsson settling their patent dispute does not mean that the Brazilian competition authority won’t investigate the case and apply antitrust sanctions to the companies. To avoid a probe and potent... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 07, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Major UK lender Lloyds Bank has endured broad criticism for its handling of a major episode of fraud at HBOS — despite it occurring before Lloyds bought the struggling rival bank in 2008. But it continues to f... (more story)
April 04, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A luxury condominium in a Trump Organization building in New York is part of a US criminal investigation, the government said in a motion to stay its effort to seize the apartment over corruption allegations. ... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: OKX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has seen its European subsidiary OKCoin Europe fined 1.05 million euros by Maltese regulators for anti-money laundering failures. Th... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 07, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey has been appointed as chair of the Financial Stability Board, the world's financial stability watchdog. He will hold the role while remaining gov... (more story)
April 07, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK government plans to ease regulations for alternative investment fund managers by establishing lighter rules for small and mid-sized funds. The proposal, open for feedback until June, suggests streamlini... (more story)
April 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK alternative investment managers have been asked for feedback as the finance ministry and the Financial Conduct Authority have pledged to implement more "streamlined" and "proportionate" rules ... (more story)
Trade View More
April 07, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Beyond goods, the EU's retaliatory plan against US President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs should also target US services to strengthen its negotiating position, French and German trade ministers said to... (more story)
April 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU has offered a “zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods” in negotiations with the US on an alternative to tariffs, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today. She said... (more story)
April 07, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU companies hurt by US tariffs need to see the EU-Mercosur trade deal ratified swiftly to support them, German and Spanish ministers said today. Meeting in Luxembourg, national trade ministers also called for... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has published a public version of its decision to clear, under foreign subsidy rules, United Arab Emirates-backed telecom company e&’s acquisition of telecom assets from C... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Investments into the generation of biofuels and renewable fuels of non-biological origin will get a boost in Greece, under a government plan worth 300 million euros that won state aid approval to... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Poland’s plan to grant 1.5 billion euros of state support to reinsure transport in Ukraine has been approved by the European Commission. The EU’s state aid regulator said the program would contri... (more story)
Energy View More
April 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU energy chief Dan Jørgensen is meeting with nuclear industry representatives today to discuss opportunities and challenges for the sector in Europe. The discussion will focus on the industry's ... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The EU will strengthen its climate-related relations with Central Asia, elevating those relations to a strategic partnership, the president of the Council of the EU António Costa has said. This p... (more story)
April 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU Commission announced today a investment of 12 billion euros in Central Asia to support “transport, critical raw materials, clean energy and digital connectivity.” The package, framed under... (more story)
Technology View More
April 07, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea needs to respond very carefully to US reciprocal tariffs while prioritizing its national interests, because the policy initiative looks set for possible adjustment through negotiations and there ar... (more story)
April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Gail Slater, chief of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice, said she supports bringing in economists and giving them a seat at the table when the leadership makes enforcement and litigation deci... (more story)
April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Gail Slater, the antitrust chief of the US Department of Justice, said companies in the artificial intelligence space who seek exemption from antitrust laws by pleading their importance to national security pu... (more story)