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Financial Crime, Financial Services, Technology
November 20, 2024 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Trade
November 20, 2024 | Laine Cibulskis and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Financial Services
November 20, 2024 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Antitrust View More
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)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: French publishing group Madrigall must allow Swiss book trader Payot to directly import its books from France under the conditions in place in the country, the Swiss antitrust authority said. The... (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 joining them over the next three years, finds a report by the Bank of England and th... (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
Europe
MLex Summary: Ticketing company Live Nation Entertainment has won Portuguese approval to buy Ritmos & Blues Produções and Arena Atlântico, with conditions. Ritmos & Blues is a live events promoter in Portugal,... (more story)
November 21, 2024 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Europe
Commercial vehicle group Krone has requested EU clearance to acquire rival Schwarzmüller, according to an update on the European Commission’s register of deals. The watchdog has set a Dec. 19 deadline to decid... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Parties interested in Liberty Media's plans to acquire sole control of Dorna Sports now have ten days to provide comments to the European Commission. Dorna Sports is the organizer and exclusive c... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The Nautical Club of Vouliagmeni has been fined 56,000 euros by the Hellenic Data Protection Authority for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. The club was found to have breach... (more story)
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 20, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's telecom regulator has proposed draft rules to implement an amended law that requires operators of social media and other platforms distributing user-generated content to be responsible f... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
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)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Most UK consumers – 61 percent – reporting authorized push purchase, or APP, fraud have fallen victim to purchase scams, the Payment Systems Regulator said today. Delivery and investment scams we... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK financial watchdog has charged four directors with conspiracy to commit false account and three of them with fraud over a failed credit union. The Financial Conduct Authority said that Ter... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 21, 2024
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The members of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision called for the implementation of the Basel III framework "in full, consistently and as soon as possible," in a meeting this week. The com... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Central Bank's action in 2019 to place Italian bank Banca Carige under temporary administration should be annulled, a non-binding opinion for the EU's top court said today. Advocate ... (more story)
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK car finance industry has been asked for feedback on two options for extending the time they have to provide final responses to complaints over non-discretionary commission arrangements. Th... (more story)
Trade View More
November 21, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of fused alumina from China into the bloc are the subject of a fresh probe opened by the European Commission to find out whether the products have been unfairly dumped, to the detriment o... (more story)
November 20, 2024 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Chinese solar-panel makers Wuxi Suntech Power and Zhejiang Sunflower have lost legal challenges over EU decisions to withdraw them from a price undertaking that allowed them to dodge punitive duties by observi... (more story)
November 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department issued a notice that it has amended the dumping rate for Indian steel pipe and tube exporter Garg Tube to 4.25 percent. The notice followed a final Court of Internation... (more story)
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 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)
November 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Imerys Aluminates Group, a French multinational producer of industrial minerals, lost its legal dispute at the EU’s General Court against the European Commission over the commission's adoption of... (more story)
November 19, 2024
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s energy regulator is set to split from the antitrust regulator under legislation introduced to parliament today designed to modify the competition law to bring about the changes. The l... (more story)
Technology View More
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)
November 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Google must "promptly and fully" divest its Chrome browser to a buyer approved by the US Department of Justice and a Colorado-led coalition of states to remedy the illegal monopoly it holds in th... (more story)