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Data Privacy and Security, Technology
March 31, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 28, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Trade
March 28, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: International Construction Products’ $100 million jury verdict against Caterpillar Products over its tortious interference with an agreement between ICP and IronPlanet, an online marketplace for ... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Apple's 150 million-euro French antitrust fine today has been welcomed by the associations that lodged complaints against the tech giant with the country's competition regulator. The association... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
A mass claim targeting mobile networks Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 over "loyalty penalties" must be approved for trial, the class representative of the litigation told a UK judge today. The plaintiff is seeking... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Civil society organizations have issued an urgent warning on the EU Code of Practice for AI models, saying that the latest version doesn’t sufficiently protect fundamental rights and children. Th... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The exposure of South Koreans to one or more types of artificial intelligence products and services has continued to increase rapidly, with the latest survey finding that 60.3 percent of the coun... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese authorities plan sweeping enforcement campaigns this year to safeguard personal information, focusing on illegal data collection and its use in widely used service products and everyday scenarios, the ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Detroit-based Rocket Companies said it will acquire Dallas-based Mr. Cooper Group in an all-stock transaction with an equity value of $9.4 billion. Rocket Companies is a fintech platform that pro... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Liberty Media’s proposed takeover of motorcycling championship MotoGP is just days from the pivotal point where the European Commission will have to either escalate its probe with formal objections, or drop it... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The deal among China Steel Corporation, Taiwan petroleum industry company CPC corporation, ChungHwa Telecom company, semiconductor company ASE Technology Holding, semiconductor manufacturer Unite... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 31, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK lawmakers today criticized the government for reportedly asking Apple to give it access to users’ encrypted data through a notice served under the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act. The California-based company... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Companies seeking accountability from EU institutions should be encouraged by a recent opinion from the EU’s top court, which says WhatsApp should be allowed to directly appeal a decision made by an umbrella g... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The "Virtual Worlds Toolbox," an online resource to help citizens navigate virtual environments, was presented today by the European Commission. The toolbox explains how virtual worlds work and o... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
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 | Nick Robertson
North America
Intellectual Ventures II became one of the first parties to cite a new memo allowing more discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board due to staff cuts, with the firm asking the board to deny th... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Mylan Laboratories’ generic version of Janssen Pharmaceuticals’s schizophrenia medication Invega Trinza is likely to infringe a Janssen patent, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Friday i... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
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)
March 31, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Banks and payment providers in the UK will soon be asked to provide metrics to financial services regulators on the levels of “on us” Authorized Push Payment fraud they are reimbursing, MLex has learned. “On u... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Clarifying the scope of the EU's securitization regulation, broadening the definition of public securitization, and simplifying transparency and reporting requirements are some of the recommendat... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has proposed maintaining the current rules on liquidity requirements for certain financial transactions, namely short-term securities financing transactions. Under current... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Sofia Gerace
Europe
The Bank of England’s regulatory arm has proposed raising the deposit protection limit of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, or FSCS, which pays out when a bank or building society fails, to 110,000 p... (more story)
Trade View More
March 31, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The European Commission plans to present the EU-Mercosur trade deal for ratification to EU countries and lawmakers before the summer break. The legal review is nearly complete, and an economic impact assessmen... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department determined that countervailable subsidies are being provided to Indian producers and exporters of hard empty capsules.
March 31, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Hungary plans to back Chinese electric-vehicle producers and US producer Tesla in their appeals against EU anti-subsidy duties on imports of electric vehicles made in China, MLex has learned. It is understood ... (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
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)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nord Stream 2 challenged the ruling of the bloc's General Court over the EU's revised gas directive, which it lost in November. The legal dispute refers to the extension of the application of cer... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's environment chief Jessika Roswall and the UN Environment Program executive director Inger Andersen today agreed on further cooperation on environment and climate issues, at a meeting in ... (more story)
Technology View More
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Updates to the UK’s current satellite filing rules were proposed today under new plans by telecom regulator Ofcom. Proposed changes include stricter requirements for satellites in the low Earth o... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Democracy Shield, an initiative that takes a broad approach to the protection and promotion of democracy in the EU, is now open for public feedback, according to the website of the E... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia's president has ratified a government regulation on the governance of electronic systems for child protection. Key provisions include risk classification of digital platforms, age-based... (more story)