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Financial Services
February 26, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Technology
February 25, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Data Privacy and Security
February 24, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Antitrust View More
February 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Qualcomm welcomed a ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejecting allegations that its business practices and licensing model are anticompetitive under California law. "As t... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
A bill that critics say threatens to cripple the operations of South Korea's communications watchdog — and stall enforcement actions against tech giants like Google and Apple — cleared a key legislative hurdle... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Yonnex Li
Asia
China needs to strengthen its antitrust regulator's independence to better crack down on government-led anticompetitive practices, a long-time advisor to China's cabinet said today. Huang Yong made the remarks... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 26, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Tesla has released an update to its driver-assistance software for selected Chinese customers to provide functions akin to its Full-Self Driving system, indicating it is moving closer to deploying its most adv... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea has published guidelines on data-quality certification processes to boost understanding of the processes and help companies better prepare for applying for the certification, accordin... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
The recent series of groundbreaking events in the artificial-intelligence community has placed South Korea's government under increasing pressure to act swiftly and differently to keep pace with global leaders... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nokia has won unconditional EU approval for its acquisition of Infinera, a US specialist in optical semiconductors. The European Commission said the deal raised no competition concerns, given tha... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
A deal for Coca-Cola to sell a 40 percent stake in its Indian bottling business, Hindustan Coca-Cola Holdings, to the Jubilant Bhartia Group and other investors has been notified to India’s competition regulat... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Japan’s Paloma Rheem Holdings, a leading water heating equipment manufacturer, has received clearance under India's fast-track merger regime to acquire Fujitsu General in a $1.6 billion deal. In the merger app... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms active in the UK received new guidance today on how Ofcom plans to use its information-gathering powers under the Online Safety Act. Following public consultation, the watchdog a... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority, or IMDA, has issued two advisory guidelines for cloud service providers and data center operators to adopt to enhance the resilience of their ser... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Commissioner has published circulars and guidelines detailing the country's new requirements for appointing data protection officers, or DPOs, and mandatory da... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EFTA Court has issued an advisory opinion in a case referred by the Supreme Court of Norway concerning the interpretation of the Trade Secrets Directive. The EFTA Court clarified that the Dir... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court's Munich Local Division ruled that Panasonic would receive only a 40 percent refund of court fees after withdrawing its patent infringement cases against Guangdong Oppo a... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan is establishing clearer guidelines on intellectual property rights for university researchers to ensure effective transfer and utilization of research results, addressing challenges in IP management and ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Kesselman & Kesselman, a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International, agreed to pay $2.75 million to resolve allegations from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board accusing it of ... (more story)
February 25, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Phoebe Seers
Europe
UK sanctions enforcers opened 29 criminal cases into possible sanctions offenses last year, the majority of which are related to Russia, the head of the country’s tax authority has told lawmakers. One case has... (more story)
February 25, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Former Meinl Bank boss Peter Weinzierl has won a temporary reprieve in his fight against extradition from the UK to the US on money laundering charges, as a London court today called for more information befor... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The financial regulations of the EU and the UK must remain aligned, Eero Heinäluoma, a member of the European Parliament, has said. The lawmaker led a delegation to London, where lawmakers met wi... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback on the functioning of commodity derivatives markets and certain aspects relating to spot energy markets. It aims to assess the efficiency of the rules ... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Asset managers in the UK have received a letter outlining the Financial Conduct Authority's priorities for 2025, including increasing investment in private markets, improving firms' resilience, a... (more story)
Trade View More
February 26, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Chassis Manufacturers Coalition has petitioned for the imposition of antidumping and antisubsidy duties on imports of chassis from Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam.
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today unveiled its first “omnibus” package; a set of draft texts aiming to reduce administrative requirements for EU companies. The package amends the Corporate Sustainabi... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Government support to EU companies for green technologies will have an easier ride under a new plan today aimed at boosting domestic industries. EU commissioner Teresa Ribera signaled that markets were changin... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Clean Industrial Deal — the EU's new strategy to decarbonize industry while boosting its competitiveness — was published today by the European Commission. "We know that too many obstacles sti... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Logistics company Zásilkovna is at the EU's first-tier court today, in a move to challenge support granted to Czech Post to compensate it for its universal service obligation. In 2022, the Europe... (more story)
February 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austria’s plan to grant 227 million euros to support AMS Osram with building an advanced chip-manufacturing factory have been approved by the European Commission. The regulator said the support w... (more story)
Energy View More
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Clean Industrial Deal and the Affordable Energy Action Plan should address the regulatory burden, supply chain vulnerabilities and lack of affordable alternatives to current energy carriers, ... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s net-zero technologies are competitive in terms of costs but face a challenging business environment and fierce global competition, according to a European Commission report published tod... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's Action Plan for Affordable Energy — meant to slash energy costs — was today presented by the European Commission. The plan is a key component of the Clean Industrial Deal, and aims at ma... (more story)
Technology View More
February 26, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
X has won a court settlement that guts, as unconstitutional, key provisions of a California social media transparency law, Assembly Bill 587, which required platforms to file reports with the state about how t... (more story)
February 25, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Chris May
North America
Mark Meador, nominee to be the fifth Federal Trade Commissioner, breezed through his nomination hearing today where he pledged a tougher stance against Big Tech abuses and consolidation, enforcement actions on... (more story)
February 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: X Corp. and California Attorney General Rob Bonta have entered a proposed final judgment for a permanent injunction that would block the state from enforcing key sections of a 2022 social media t... (more story)