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Financial Crime, Financial Services
March 31, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
Artificial Intelligence
March 31, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
March 31, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Antitrust View More
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Attendo Suomi has been fined 1.5 million euros by the Finnish Market Court for obstructing an onsite inspection conducted by Finnish antitrust officials in 2023. The obstruction involved the dele... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea’s top food delivery app Baedal Minjok is under investigation by the country’s antitrust watchdog for allegedly abusing its dominance by scrapping a fixed-fee advertising service in favor of a prici... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has vowed to crack down on disorderly competition and other irregularities in the country’s automotive industry, according to its top economic planning and policy agency. It will strengthen oversight of ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 01, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
Amid growing copyright issues involving AI, the Korea Music Copyright Association said it will only approve the registration of musical works when applicants give assurances that they did not use AI and that t... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's top safety regulator is urging developers, enterprises and users of large artificial-intelligence models to heighten their awareness of security risks, as more AI systems are being deployed on private ... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's legislature recognizes the need for artificial intelligence regulation but sees no immediate urgency for a comprehensive law, a senior official from the country's top legislative body told a forum in B... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sweden's antitrust authority has announced new regulations and guidelines for merger notifications, set to take effect on May 26. The update aims to streamline the review process for mergers subm... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Brookfield and Pacific Equity Partners-owned Intellihub’s plans to acquire smart-metering provider Powermetric, owned by Shell Energy Operations, is set to proceed, after Australia’s competition ... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Clients and competitors said tortillas and multigrain bread lack direct substitutes in the bread market, in responses submitted to Brazil’s competition authority as part of its review of Bimbo’s acquisition of... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 01, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Officials working on European Union privacy policy briefed their Australian counterparts in 2023, assisting them with the revamp of the country’s privacy laws and providing suggestions on how to regulate targe... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Hong Kong's privacy regulator has issued an enforcement notice on ImagineX following a data breach that affected a total of 127,268 individuals. ImagineX, which manages membership programs for pa... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Hong Kong's privacy regulator has released a checklist helping organizations guide employees on the use of generative artificial intelligence. The guidelines or policies developed internally by o... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 01, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
German luxury-vehicle manufacturer BMW has successfully challenged a trademark in China that it argued bore similarities to its Mini car brand marks, following an appellate decision by the Beijing High People’s Court.
April 01, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s oldest and largest copyright collective for musical works has decided not to approve the registration of musical works created using artificial intelligence technology. The Korea Mu... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
US Patent and Trademark Office acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart told MLex that changes to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s discretionary denial process will help the board use fewer resources and focus o... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Representative Maxine Waters, ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, issued a statement denouncing what she called a "takeover" of the Securities and Exchange Commission by ... (more story)
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)
Financial Services View More
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission will present its proposal on the review of the EU securitization framework on June 17, according to its agenda published today. This legislative review is one of the initi... (more story)
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)
Trade View More
April 01, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: South Korea’s regulations on the cross-border transfer of personal data were highlighted as a trade barrier for US companies in the US Trade Representative’s 2025 National Trade Estimate Report. ... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
When the US International Trade Commission asked for input on whether negotiating tactics should factor into the public interest inquiry and exclusion orders are improper in standard essential patent, or SEP, ... (more story)
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative has published the 2025 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers.
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 | 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
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)
Technology View More
April 01, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Big Tech companies, including Apple, Google and Apple’s Japanese subsidiary iTunes, have been designated under Japan's new law aimed at enhancing competition in smartphone software. The Japan Fair Trade Commis... (more story)
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms told a US appeals court that claims alleging the harmful design of its social media platform features are plainly barred by Section 230 because such claims directly target Meta’s r... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The largest online platforms, including the likes of Meta Platforms, TikTok and Google, were collectively charged 58 million euros by the European Commission for its supervision of the EU digital rulebook in 2... (more story)