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Trade
September 22, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Asia, Europe
Antitrust
September 22, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
September 19, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Antitrust View More
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs were granted leave to file a second amended complaint against Hanna Holdings over brokerage fees by a US federal judge. Plaintiffs intend to add allegations of a horizontal conspiracy,... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's "opt-out" collective regime — allowing for mass actions with the class signed up from the outset — must be protected, law firm Hausfeld has said in a letter to the UK government. The fir... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
About a third of a key decision-making panel at the UK’s antitrust regulator is scheduled to leave next month, bringing the possibility that the departures may deliver an opportunity for deeper structural chan... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: AI-generated child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, has been identified for the first time on AI chatbots, the Internet Watch Foundation said on Monday. Analysts at the group, a UK-based hotline f... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Two leading EU lawmakers warned the European Commission against rushing amendments to the AI Act, urging instead a stronger centralized enforcement system. The two members of the European Parliament, who are s... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The UK government should strengthen its existing sectoral regulators for tackling AI and avoid an all-encompassing AI bill, said an influential think tank as its new polling shows 38 percent of respondents lac... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 22, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe, North America
German biotechnology company BioNTech has filed its intended acquisition of mRNA treatment designer CureVac for approval in Germany. The national competition authority has one month to decide on the deal. The ... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Kingspan received a new chargesheet from the EU's competition enforcer in a probe into the Irish company's submissions during the review of its abandoned acquisition of Trimo, MLex has learned. In March 2024, ... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Gildan Activewear and HanesBrands have filed paperwork with the US antitrust authorities for their $2.2 billion deal. The companies made a filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act on Sept. 18, setting up an Oct.... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms failed to get full dismissal of US claims filed by Facebook users accusing the social network of helping scammers defraud users with deceptive advertising, breaching its legal and ... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Sachiko Sakamaki
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Privacy-enhancing technologies can be a mitigating factor in data protection fines, but they are no "silver bullet" and could be weakened by developments in computing, the UK's chief privacy regulator told an ... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Lotte Card is under investigation by South Korea’s privacy watchdog after reporting a customer credit-information leak to financial authorities on Sept. 19. The Personal Information Protection Co... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
September 22, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Verizon announced Monday that it's partnering with smartphone manufacturers as well as leading wireless standards contributors to create a 6G innovation forum focused on furthering the development of the upcom... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court has partly sided with Next Innovation in a patent fight against Daiwa House, finding limited infringement while narrowing how far claims can extend under the doctrine of equivalents.
September 22, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Longi Green Energy Technology and Jinko Solar, two of China’s leading photovoltaic companies, have settled their global patent disputes with a cross-licensing deal covering core solar technologies, bringing li... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
September 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US House of Representatives Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has written to PayPal seeking assurances that its new integrations with Tencent’s Tenpay Global—the operator of Wei... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A former senior Polish state official accused of “secretly” helping award tens of millions of pounds' worth of government generator contracts faces 15 years in prison if convicted, prosecutors told a UK extrad... (more story)
September 19, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim, and Representative Maxine Waters, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent raising concerns about the department's decision to not only postpon... (more story)
Financial Services View More
September 22, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The UK and the US are set to explore closer cooperation on digital assets, Britain's finance ministry said on Monday. UK finance minister Rachel Reeves and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hav... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK banks have been asked for feedback on a proposal from the Prudential Regulation Authority, the Bank of England's regulatory arm, to delete 37 individual reporting templates. The watchdog said ... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia, Europe
South Korea’s LG AI Research and the London Stock Exchange Group have launched a financial AI agent that analyzes data, forecasts stock performance and explains results without human intervention. The move hig... (more story)
Trade View More
September 22, 2025
Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has found that hexamine from Saudi Arabia and Germany is being dumped into the US, and hexamine from India is subsidized.
September 22, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia, North America
ByteDance has pledged to move forward with a deal to ensure TikTok remains available to US users, easing pressure on the short-video app after years of political wrangling. The statement came Saturday, a day a... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia, North America
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has cautioned that accepting US demands in ongoing trade talks without safeguards could expose Seoul to economic turbulence on the scale of its 1997 financial crisis, under... (more story)
State Aid View More
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Irish budget airline Ryanair said today that it will turn to the EU courts to fight a European Commission decision deeming unlawful its agreement on airport charges with French regional airport C... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Marketing and airport services agreements signed between the Carcassonne airport and Ryanair between 2001 and 2011 amounted to €1.8 million in incompatible state aid that must be recovered, the E... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Casino operator Merkur Spielbanken has filed an appeal at the EU's first-tier court to contest the European Commission's order for Germany to recoup a capital injection of €64.8 million euros in ... (more story)
Energy View More
September 22, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Lawmakers from the European Parliament’s energy committee are set to vote on the European Commission’s delegated act on low-carbon hydrogen greenhouse-gas emissions on Oct. 16, a Parliament official told MLex.... (more story)
September 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A group of national leaders and energy bodies have issued a joint call for a just and equitable clean energy transition ahead of the COP30 climate conference in Brazil in a joint letter published... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Jackson Cooper and Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe, North America
The quest to realize commercial nuclear fusion energy has intensified with Italian energy giant Eni and America's Commonwealth Fusion Systems announcing a $1 billion power purchase agreement on Monday. The dea... (more story)
Technology View More
September 22, 2025 | Júlia Tar and Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Audiovisual media services, such as Netflix, YouTube and television broadcasters, will be in focus on Wednesday when EU officials discuss how to strengthen child protection rules under the Audiovisual Media Se... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Digital services, particularly AI, pose significant challenges for the news media sector, EU governments believe, pointing to a potential need to expand editorial responsibility to new actors. They urge the Eu... (more story)
September 22, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's State Administration for Market Regulation has launched a formal investigation into Kuaishou's e-commerce operations, delivering a one-two punch to the social-media giant that was simultaneously reprim... (more story)