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Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
January 31, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
January 30, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Financial Crime, Financial Services, Technology
January 30, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
Antitrust View More
January 31, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Microsoft is the target of a UK competition-law claim filed by Discount-Licensing, a seller of secondary software licenses. The claim was filed this week, according to court listings.
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Revisions to EU antitrust rules exempting certain technology transfers between competitors from scrutiny are being consulted on by the European Commission. The regulator said the aim of the revis... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Estonia's packaging waste collection and recovery market will be analyzed by the domestic competition authority to get a better understanding of its functioning and the role of the different pla... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 31, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
India plans to host DeepSeek servers, according to a key minister, which would address any potential data privacy concerns surrounding the new Chinese artificial intelligence platform. Electronics and IT Minis... (more story)
January 30, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea's privacy regulator plans to send a request as early as today to the Chinese operator of the DeepSeek generative AI model for information on how it collects and processes data. The Personal Informa... (more story)
January 30, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Two Chinese operators of the DeepSeek generative AI model have been barred from processing Italian users’ data by the Italian privacy watchdog after they claimed that they don’t operate in the country and aren... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online advertising company Outbrain’s acquisition of rival Teads, and the purchase by Teads' parent company of a minority stake in Outbrain, have been cleared by the UK antitrust regulator follow... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Danish brewer Carlsberg has seen the European Commission release the text of its earlier decision to approve the Danish brewer's takeover of soft-drinks maker Britvic. In December, the authority ... (more story)
January 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa have received conditional approval from Singapore to expand the geographical scope of their joint venture, which has been in place since 2016. The Competition and... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU Commission must "fully leverage the powers granted under the Digital Services Act" to ensure online platforms don’t threaten democracy in the EU, 12 member states asked in a letter. Belgiu... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The New Zealand regulator has invited businesses to submit feedback for consideration as it prepares guidance on complying with the proposed changes to the privacy legislation. In a statement tod... (more story)
January 30, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Ken Paxton, the attorney general for Texas, said there needs to be "some type of restructuring" of Google so that it does not control the digital marketplace, and that he isn't interested in merely obtaining m... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Patent Trial and Appeal board invalidated a fiber optics patent held by Inneos for obviousness based on prior art. Opticis filed for inter partes review for US Patent No. 7,198,416 in 2023, w... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The District Court of The Hague has upheld the validity of Astellas Pharma's modified patent in a dispute with Synthon BV. The Dutch medicine producer had challenged the Japanese company's EP 3,7... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Rematec GmbH & Co.'s European patent 2,548,648, which relates to a wood chip grinding mill, has been invalidated by the Unified Patent Court. The case involved an infringement claim by mechanical... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 31, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Commodities giant Trafigura and its former chief operating officer Mike Wainwright have been found guilty on bribery charges, in a landmark verdict handed down by a Swiss court today. The company was charged b... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Fraudster Guy Flintham has been ordered to pay almost six million pounds as part of a confiscation order secured by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority. Flintham was jailed for six years in May ... (more story)
January 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Dutch lender Volksbank has been fined 5 million euros ($5.1 million) by the country's central bank, over anti-money laundering failures. Volksbank had failed to monitor its customers for due-dili... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Innovation, resilience and financial stability will guide the European Banking Authority's work between 2026 and 2028, according to a document published today. The document outlines the EBA’s pla... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European macroprudential framework could be clarified to ensure that the countercyclical capital buffer can be used more flexibly and proactively, according to the joint report published by t... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK-based clearinghouses will be able to access the EU market until June 2028 under a decision adopted today by the European Commission. The decision extends the equivalence regime for UK central ... (more story)
Trade View More
January 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission preliminarily determined that imports of sol gel alumina-based ceramic abrasive grains from China materially injure the US industry.
January 31, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The EU's ambitious trade liberalization agenda is back in motion with recent deals and objectives announced. But policy makers must navigate political headwinds to turn agreements into reality. Poland, leading... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A request by Adrisport SAS and Delta Sport for the European Commission to grant exemptions from the extended, punitive dumping duty on imports of essential bicycle parts from China into the bloc ... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: France can grant 48 million euros of state support to Envision AESC to build a factory for making lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, the European Commission said today. The EU regulator... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Employers hiring people aged under 35 who never had an indefinite job contract or women residing in Southern Italy who haven't been in regular employment in the previous six months, will be exemp... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A full investigation into the sale of the Nürburgring racetrack complex in Germany to Capricorn Nürburgring Besitzgesellschaft, opened in September to reflect a court ruling, is now open for feed... (more story)
Energy View More
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's automotive industry association has said that the amendment to the Energy Industry Act, adopted by the Bundestag today, doesn't fully solve the problem of double taxation where ancillar... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today opened a consultation on candidate energy infrastructure projects seeking to obtain the status of Project of Common Interest or Project of Mutual Interest, as set ou... (more story)
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Cyprus, Hungary, The Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia and Finland must fully transpose EU rules on reporting of air pollutant emission projections, the EU commission ha... (more story)
Technology View More
January 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Google, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, TikTok, Snapchat, LinkedIn and X all took part in a stress test led by Germany's digital services coordinator and the European Commission to assess their risk r... (more story)
January 30, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other communication platforms could face new requirements to combat online child sexual abuse material under the latest compromise text of draft EU regulation. The revised prop... (more story)
January 30, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
BT, Sky, Virgin, Vodafone and others are not fully taking advantage of softer rules on net-neutrality, according to the telecom regulator Ofcom. The watchdog softened its “open Internet” rules – that seek to p... (more story)