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Trade
February 26, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
February 26, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Financial Services
February 26, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Antitrust View More
February 26, 2025 | Chris May
North America
RealPage admitted in internal documents that its access to a “data moat” of nonpublic, competitively sensitive information from landlords across the country means it has no “true competitors” among revenue-max... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority has escalated its investigation into state-owned bank Caixa Econômica Federal and the Brazilian Federation of Lottery Companies (Febralot), opening an administrative proceed... (more story)
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)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 26, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
An early draft of a document on the interplay between the EU AI Act and medical device regulations discusses questions that are bound to arise on how the AI law’s requirements will interact with product safety... (more story)
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)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 26, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority ruled that Grupo Sinal jumped the gun regarding seven deals. The cases stem from 14 deals that occurred between 2010 and 2020 that were not properly notified to the authorit... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
The competition authority's Tribunal approved the deal today after a two-month review prompted by a councilor's request in late 2024. Lead councilor José Levi stated the deal in the delivery app market doesn't... (more story)
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)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 26, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
The Brazilian data protection agency is targeting mishandling of data on social media platforms, in soccer stadiums and within drugstores in Brazil. However, the authority’s General Coordinator of Supervision ... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The implementation of the UK Online Safety Act by regulator Ofcom had to ensure the codes that tech companies must follow are “proofed against judicial review,” a junior minister said today after lawmakers que... (more story)
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)
Intellectual Property View More
February 26, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Supreme Court vacated and remanded a $47 million damage award in Dewberry Group v. Dewberry Engineers today, with Justice Elena Kagan writing in a unanimous decision that the district court erred by add... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
In concurrent filings earlier this week, Nvidia took aim at graphical processor unit technology utilized in advanced machine learning and other emerging tech it stands accused of infringing in Texas federal co... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The EU General Court today upheld the validity of Schweppes International Ltd’s “May Tea” trademarks, overturning an EUIPO Board of Appeal decision that had favored Russian company May OOO. The court ruled tha... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A Russian national residing in Portugal was extradited to the United States to face charges related to his alleged role in a scheme to manipulate cryptocurrency markets on behalf of client crypto... (more story)
February 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is targeting six entities based in Hong Kong and China engaged in the procurement of unmanned aerial vehicle components on behalf of ... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, Alena Douhan, announced the publication of the finalized versions of Guiding Principles on Sanctions, Busin... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission extended the compliance dates for a Treasury securities rule by one year for eligible cash market transactions and for eligible repo market transactions.... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU Parliament committee for economic affairs will hold a hearing on March 3 with Miguel Carcaño Saenz De Cenzano, Radek Urban and Slavka Eley, three candidates to join the Single Resolution Board. The nomi... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The "decision paralysis" of individual investors over whether to invest money in Britain is exacerbated by the current regulatory framework, top lender Barclays has said. The bank has urged the F... (more story)
Trade View More
February 26, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Europe
President Donald Trump said today his administration plans to saddle all European Union imports with 25-percent tariffs in another escalation in the trade conflict with the economic bloc. Trump, speaking durin... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU imports of certain cast-iron articles from India and Turkey will face an EU dumping investigation, the European Commission announced today. The move follows a complaint that trade association ... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Jean Comte
Europe
The European Commission unveiled today its first “omnibus” legislative text aimed at cutting administrative costs for companies. But the proposal might face difficulties during the scrutiny process as member s... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
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)
Energy View More
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: 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 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)
Technology View More
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 | 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 | 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)