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Antitrust
September 29, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Trade
September 29, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Financial Crime, Financial Services
September 29, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Antitrust View More
September 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Slovak broadcasters TV Markíza and TV JOJ are the target of an investigation to see if they abused their market power in relation to advertisements, the national competition authority said on Tue... (more story)
September 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An unnamed large international software company has been subjected to a dawn raid as part of a Dutch competition authority investigation into suspected misuse of market power. The regulator said ... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan has unveiled sweeping antitrust guidelines aimed at the country’s powerful talent agencies, broadcasters and record labels. The new rules caution against contract clauses that lock artists into exclusive... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China and African nations have pledged to step up cooperation on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence governance, according to a plan on building a shared future in cyberspace. Released at t... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
In 2025, a cascade of breaches exposed the personal data of millions of South Koreans and allegedly compromised government systems, revealing how the country's rush toward AI leadership left its cybersecurity ... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission's swift revisions to the EU's AI law are justified by the fast pace of the technology while balancing the need to ensure legal certainty and predictability, the head of the commission's... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: German rail-infrastructure specialist Vossloh has secured clearance from France's Autorité de la Concurrence to acquire exclusive control of the Sateba group, the regulator said on Monday. To win... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha
Oceania
A waiver process allowing deals that don’t raise competition concerns to avoid probes under Australia’s rigorous new merger regime is complex, ambiguous and requires excessive information, according to the cou... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China issued its first standardized framework for merger filings on Monday, consolidating scattered guidances into a single official set of rules designed to bring predictability to the country's merger review... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 30, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Companies seeking to transfer personal data out of China will soon be able to take advantage of a new certification regime, following the rollout of a set of national standards that underpins the framework. Ef... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
ColocaTel and FranTech Solutions were ordered in August to remove material including images promoting terrorism by Australia’s online-safety watchdog, correspondence to the internet-service providers reveals. ... (more story)
September 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Asahi Group, Japan’s major beverage company, said a cyberattack has caused a system failure, forcing it to suspend order processing, product shipments and customer service operations. The parent ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
September 30, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese electric-vehicle maker BYD’s reported entry into Avanci’s patent pool as a licensee has been described as a “new starting point” for the globalization of China’s auto industry, according to an article ... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australia’s top economic advisory agency denied recommending changes to the country’s copyright laws that include a text- and data-mining exemption for artificial intelligence in a recent report, in an exchang... (more story)
September 29, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
In a decision penned by US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires — and in a positive sign for the artificial intelligence industry — the USPTO Appeals Review Panel last week warned that the categor... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
September 30, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Correspondence between UK law firm Carter Ruck and a former client — an alleged $4 billion fraudster dubbed the “CryptoQueen” — have thrown light on the suspected use of legal tactics to shut down scrutiny of ... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
South Korea will abolish the crime of breach of trust, long criticized for exposing corporate executives to imprisonment and criminal fines, and replace economic criminal penalties with administrative fines wh... (more story)
September 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The South Korean government on Tuesday unveiled its first set of measures to ease economic criminal penalties as part of its goal to revise 30 percent of such penalties this year. Announced by th... (more story)
Financial Services View More
September 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Monetary Authority of Singapore and four major banks have completed a proof-of-concept sandbox testing quantum key distribution, or QKD, for secure communications in the financial sector. Con... (more story)
September 29, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Federal Reserve is researching the latest wave of payment innovations — including tokenization, smart contracts, and artificial intelligence in payments — to understand how private-sector innovators wil... (more story)
September 29, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Charlie Javice, founder of the tech startup Frank, was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison for defrauding JP Morgan when the bank purchased the company in 2021 for $175 million. When she and he... (more story)
Trade View More
September 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce voiced its opposition late Monday to the US Commerce Department's newly issued “piercing rule,” which extends export-control restrictions to subsidiaries owned 50 per... (more story)
September 29, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
A US chemical producer on Monday filed for antidumping and antisubsidy duties against Turkish and Indian imports of chromium trioxide, which is used for wood preservatives, metal finishing, chrome plating and ... (more story)
September 29, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has issued its final rule rescinding a 2024 regulation on firearm export license requirements. The only aspect of the rule to remain i... (more story)
State Aid View More
September 29, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austria, Belgium and Croatia have received a total of €3.07 billion under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility, the European Commission said on Monday. The funds cover reforms and investment... (more story)
September 29, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea’s National Assembly has passed a sweeping government reorganization bill that dismantles the prosecution service and enacts some of President Lee Jae Myung’s most ambitious reforms, including the r... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Non-EU companies bidding in EU public tenders below €250 million will face increased scrutiny under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, a senior European Commission official has said. The regulator plans to make... (more story)
Energy View More
September 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Four energy-related legislative proposals are scheduled be presented by the European Commission on Nov. 25, during the Nov. 24-27 European Parliament plenary session, according to a commission do... (more story)
September 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Hydrogen can provide long-duration storage and clean backup to replace diesel in Europe’s data centers, as soaring AI-driven demand threatens to overwhelm electricity grids, Hydrogen Europe has s... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
European Investment Bank climate adaptation financing will double to €30 billion for the 2026-30 period, it said Tuesday in its climate roadmap, with funding prioritized for projects aimed at fostering EU comp... (more story)
Technology View More
September 30, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi and Jackson Cooper
Europe
The EU should reform its approach to data centers to make them flexibility assets for the power system rather than a challenge, the Centre on Regulation in Europe, a Brussels-based think tank, said in a study ... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
Europe, North America
Google executives warned that implementing the US Department of Justice’s structural and behavioral remedies proposed as part of an adtech monopolization lawsuit will harm ad publishers and are not just “incre... (more story)
September 30, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
YouTube will pay $24.5 million to US President Donald Trump to settle allegations the platform violated the First Amendment in suspending his account in January 2021.