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Financial Services
April 15, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
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Antitrust, Technology
April 15, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Data Privacy and Security
April 14, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Antitrust View More
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Malaysia Competition Commission, or MyCC, has accused 22 childcare-service providers of involvement in a price-fixing agreement in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. In a statement announcing the pro... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Adidas Korea and its franchise owners have signed a settlement agreement to resolve a long-running dispute over what the owners claimed as the forced closure of stores during Adidas’ restructuring in 2022. The... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has launched a special campaign to tackle the abuse of administrative power, running from April to December this year. The focus of the initiat... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 15, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
Worried that the country could lose in the global AI race, South Korea's government finalized an enlarged supplementary budget bill worth 12 trillion won ($8.43 billion) that includes plans to secure more AI c... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Artificial intelligence is a strategic and economic asset, and the US must adopt an “unapologetic America First" approach to protect and promote the technology, especially against China, Michael Kratsios, the ... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s government announced today the final details of its supplementary budget bill worth 12 trillion won ($8.43 billion) to support the artificial intelligence and high-end semiconductor... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippine Competition Commission today announced its annual adjusted merger-notification thresholds, which increased to 8.5 billion pesos ($150 million) in terms of size of party and 3.5 bil... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Petz and Cobasi’s main rival has made a second effort to participate in the deal review, arguing to Brazil’s competition watchdog that the deal is harmful to a fair competition environment. But the two merging... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Wesley Brown
Asia, North America, Oceania
Omnicom and Interpublic Group have received clearance for their proposed deal from regulators in five countries, including China, CEO John Wren announced in an earnings call today.
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Committee, or PDPC, has confirmed a personal data breach involving HomePro, a large home goods store, detected by the PDPC Eagle Eye Monitoring Center’s proact... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Xu Yuan
Middle East, North America
A US federal judge imposed wide-ranging restrictions on WhatsApp and NSO, the owner of the spyware Pegasus, over what evidence they are allowed to use in an upcoming trial to determine how much NSO owes for il... (more story)
April 15, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US President Donald Trump initiated an investigation into imports of critical minerals under section 232. Trump signed an executive order today that requires the US Department of Commerce to revi... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 16, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
ByteDance’s short-video platform Douyin, known as TikTok’s sister app in China, has secured a victory in safeguarding its artificial intelligence model designed for transforming real pictures into comic-style ... (more story)
April 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: While Lord & Taylor EComm's central claims of breach of contract and fraud against Circle Business survived a motion-to-dismiss, US Northern District of California Judge Naomi Buchwald said L&T ... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Lord & Taylor EComm was denied indemnification yesterday from a judgment it faces for selling Gucci counterfeits in a US suit against its supplier. A Southern District of New York judge also held that Lord & T... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 15, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: A Peruvian court found the country's former president Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, guilty of money laundering and sentenced them each to 15 years in prison. They took illegal cont... (more story)
April 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, is demanding answers from Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and chief executive of Meta Platforms, on the company’s reported ef... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Former Meinl Bank boss Peter Weinzierl has seen his bid to overturn his extradition to the US on money laundering charges refused after a UK judge dismissed his appeal. Judge Adam Johnson said there were no gr... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency publicly released a letter sent to its supervised institutions regarding unauthorized access to OCC e-mail systems. The OCC said it immediately di... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has said its supervisory focus is changing, now that the deadline has passed for banks and insurers to embed its operational resilience rules. In a blog post ... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European Commission launched a consultation on April 15 to gather feedback on obstacles to capital markets integration across the EU. Insights from financial sector participants are intended to help shape ... (more story)
Trade View More
April 16, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Nvidia said in a US SEC filing that the US government informed it on April 9 that the H20 chip would require a license to be exported to China and on April 14 told Nvidia those rules would be in ... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China and Vietnam have vowed to jointly oppose hegemonism, power politics and unilateralism, according to a joint statement between China and Vietnam released yesterday. Key areas of cooperation ... (more story)
April 16, 2025
North America
MLex summary Computer chip giant Nvidia announced a $500 billion investment in the US. The company said in a blog post it will build over the next four years AI infrastructure in the US, including two supercom... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway has secured approval by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for its plan to fund a program to develop a wind farm in Utsira Nord, located in the North Sea. The farm will raise renewable energy... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU General Block Exemption Regulation needs to be simplified, according to comments from several member states seen by MLex. The legal text, which sets out some conditions to exempt state aid from the Euro... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has won European Commission approval for its plan to spend 400 million euros to boost its generation of renewable hydrogen. Production will be supported through the “Auctions-as-a-Service” ... (more story)
Energy View More
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today opened a public consultation on specific draft rules under the Euro 7 emission standards, which limit exhaust emissions and introduce requirements for battery durabi... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback on the functioning of its "Innovation Fund," a funding program aimed at promoting innovative net-zero technologies. The program is financed by revenues... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Europe is the fastest-warming continent, with 2024 being the hottest year on record, according to a report published today by the EU Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological... (more story)
Technology View More
April 15, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is likening his use of rulemaking power to limit children’s access to online adult content to barring the purchase of age-restricted materials like tobacco. But laws att... (more story)
April 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Media Matters, a watchdog group that assailed the content moderation practices of X Corp., opposed a motion to dismiss a US litigation against the company, saying that the court has already ruled... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Social-media sites and other online platforms with UK users face a deadline of tomorrow to assess how likely they are to be accessed by children, ahead of online safety regulator Ofcom publishing final codes o... (more story)