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Technology
September 18, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Trade
September 18, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
September 18, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Antitrust View More
September 19, 2025 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Hong Kong-listed real estate agency Midland Holdings said the High Court will issue its judgment this month on the company's judicial challenge against the city’s antitrust regulator. Midland has argued that t... (more story)
September 19, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian Competition Commission, or KPPU, said the policy to limit imports of non-subsidized gasoline have led to fuel shortages and the loss of consumer choice, entrenching state-owned Per... (more story)
September 19, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
The California Law Revision Commission moved a step closer Thursday to recommending changes to state antitrust law, voting to have agency staff draft a tentative recommendation for addressing “single-firm cond... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 19, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
South Korea’s three major broadcasting companies argued in court that Naver illegally used their news content to train its artificial intelligence model Hyper Clova X. Korea Broadcasting Service, Seoul Broadca... (more story)
September 18, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
The US federal energy regulator queried grid operators to better understand how they predict their future electricity needs — a task complicated by increased demand from large loads, such as the data centers n... (more story)
September 18, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe, North America
The US and UK governments have committed to a range of joint initiatives to advance cooperation on AI, civil nuclear and quantum technologies, including regulatory and policy efforts. The Technology Prosperity... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 18, 2025
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to authorize electronic publication of the public comments submitted in the case involving HPE and Juniper Networks rather than "costly" Fed... (more story)
September 18, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
The US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division chief said the number of early termination notices granted to deals so far this year are in the hundreds, sparing companies unnecessary delays for deals that p... (more story)
September 18, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The Spanish government has been given an extra six weeks to reply to formal European Commission concerns over its "discretionary powers" to impose conditions on banking mergers, MLex has learned. The delay wil... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 19, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s science and finance regulators pledged sweeping reforms after cyberattacks on KT and Lotte Card, framing security as the foundation of the country’s digital and AI ambitions. The Mi... (more story)
September 19, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has released for comment a new draft decree guiding the implementation of the personal-data protection law, which was passed in June and is expected to take ... (more story)
September 19, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Data-protection regulators from Japan and the European Union agreed Thursday in Tokyo to extend their mutual adequacy arrangement for data transfers to cover academia and research. Japan’s Person... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
September 19, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
Europe, North America
The US Department of Justice remains vigilant about competition problems arising at the nexus of antitrust and intellectual property, with an agency enforcer sounding the alarm about standards developers misre... (more story)
September 18, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
A 2022 study from the US Patent and Trademark Office, published in the American Economic Journal last month, shows that office policy can help close the gap between men and women in the US patent system. Forme... (more story)
September 18, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
John A. Squires was confirmed to be the new director of the US Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, ushering in new leadership for the office during a streak of controversial policy changes. Squires, an ad... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
September 18, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The US Justice Department announced Thursday that it has declined to prosecute a Bank of America securities unit over alleged market manipulation schemes after the firm disclosed its conduct, cooperated and re... (more story)
September 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: BofA Securities, a North Carolina-based financial institution, has agreed to resolve a criminal investigation involving alleged market manipulation schemes by former traders. As part of the resol... (more story)
September 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Democratic US senators sent a letter to US Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting more information regarding the Trump administration’s oversight of cryptocurrency exchange Binance’s legal obligat... (more story)
Financial Services View More
September 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK finance minister Rachel Reeves will push for trade rules that better help British businesses and push for the use of UK and EU advantages in the global financial system to provide more support... (more story)
September 18, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Millions of pounds taken from Barclays over its financial crime failings by the UK’s financial markets regulator should be used to compensate investors in the stricken WealthTek fund, UK lawmakers have urged t... (more story)
September 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Prudential Regulation Authority is looking to tighten its rules to reduce the risks posed by funded reinsurance, a type of reinsurance where a life insurer transfers both the asset and lia... (more story)
Trade View More
September 19, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said Thursday it will continue its antidumping probe into EU pork products while signaling readiness for dialogue. At a regular press conference, a ministry spokesper... (more story)
September 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Supreme Court of the United States set a Nov. 5 oral argument hearing date for a lawsuit from 12 Democrat-controlled states and five small businesses challenging President Donald Trump's use ... (more story)
September 18, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
European car manufacturers should be allowed to class electric vehicle parts and batteries produced in specific economic zones outside the EU as "made in Europe" under forthcoming local content rules, Renault’... (more story)
State Aid View More
September 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany has been granted state aid approval for a €7.9 billion (around $9.3 billion) expansion in the budget of a scheme to support electricity production from renewable energy sources, the Europ... (more story)
September 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU judges Maja Brkan and José Martín y Pérez de Nanclares have been elected to act as advocates general at the EU's lower-tier General Court. They will provide non-binding legal opinions on cases... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Dutch national Marc van der Woude has been re-elected as president of the EU General Court, while Cypriot Savvas Papasavvas has been re-elected as its vice president, the court said in a statemen... (more story)
Energy View More
September 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU lawmakers from the European Conservatives and Reformists Group and the European People’s Party objected to the EU’s proposed delegated act on a methodology for calculating greenhouse-gas emiss... (more story)
September 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU ministers agreed Thursday on a “statement of intent” as they continue working on a climate plan, or nationally determined contribution, for 2035, member states said in a statement. The documen... (more story)
September 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: European electricity system operators underestimated the benefits of restructuring existing bidding zones in their April study, energy regulator ACER said in a statement on Thursday. Bidding zone... (more story)
Technology View More
September 18, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Antitrust enforcement is a better-suited tool for an emerging area such as artificial intelligence, and premature regulation can hurt industries in early stages of development, Gail Slater, chief of the US Dep... (more story)
September 18, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Pornography websites based anywhere in the EU should have to follow French child-protection rules requiring age checks to block users under 18 years of age for services provided in France, according to a non-b... (more story)
September 18, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s cyberspace regulator is set to enforce artificial intelligence content labeling rules with potential penalties for noncompliance, a senior internet official said while unveiling measures to broaden ado... (more story)