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Data Privacy and Security, Financial Services
September 19, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Technology
September 18, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Trade
September 18, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Antitrust View More
September 19, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark’s passenger transport industry has experienced unannounced inspections by antitrust officials over possible illegal agreements, the national competition authority said on Friday. The watc... (more story)
September 19, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia, Oceania
Frustration over limited repair choices and high maintenance costs in China’s fast-growing electric-vehicle market has resurfaced, after an Australian media report questioned whether several Chinese-owned auto... (more story)
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)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 19, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s Cyberspace Administration has issued draft rules clarifying when online platform service providers will be designated as having a large base of underage users or significant influence on minors. The dr... (more story)
September 19, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: A Chinese tech firm that supplies training data for AI models to outside clients has been penalized for violating the Personal Information Protection Law, according to the National Network and In... (more story)
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)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 19, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Innovators and startups will get assurances that EU merger control won’t hold up their deals under revised guidance to emerge next spring, Teresa Ribera said. Bigger companies wanting to grow through M&A can’t... (more story)
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)
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 19, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Messaging platform Telegram’s legal challenge to an infringement notice issued by the Australian online safety regulator, originally set to be heard in October, has been pushed to December, after the watchdog ... (more story)
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)
Intellectual Property View More
September 19, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s intellectual property protection centers will no longer accept patent pre-examination requests from agencies outside a designated list, in a change that officials say is part of efforts to curb low-qua... (more story)
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)
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
MLex Summary: Malaysia has defended its halal certification standards as a “red line” in trade negotiations, Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz said in a speech on Friday. He said US ne... (more story)
September 19, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of threaded tube or pipe cast fittings from China will continue to face punitive dumping duties of up to 57.8 percent at EU borders, the European Commission said on Friday. The same prod... (more story)
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)
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 | 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
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)
Technology View More
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)
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)