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Artificial Intelligence
January 21, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 20, 2025 | Natalie McNelis
Europe
Antitrust
January 20, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Antitrust View More
January 21, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
State-owned miner IREL India has been cleared of excessive pricing allegations. The Competition Commission of India rejected findings by its own investigation arm that IREL's pricing was unfair. The investigat... (more story)
January 21, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan’s main ruling Liberal Democratic Party will amend two subcontract laws to support small and medium-sized enterprises. At a meeting today, the lawmakers agreed to pursue amendments not only to the competi... (more story)
January 21, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
A consolidated investigation into Google's ad-tech practices has been ordered by the Indian antitrust watchdog, combining the latest complaint with existing probes into the tech giant's alleged anticompetitive... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 21, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia,Europe
The AI safety institutes from the UK, Japan, Singapore and South Korea have been jointly assessing the AI models developed by Google and Mistral AI to evaluate their security against vulnerabilities related to... (more story)
January 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: AI productivity tools have been launched by the UK government to speed up civil servants and improve access to public services as part of a plan to stimulate economic growth and set an example to... (more story)
January 20, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Lina Khan has stepped down as chair of the US Federal Trade Commission and intends to depart the agency "in the coming weeks," MLex has learned. Republican Commissioner Andrew Ferguson took over as chair of th... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Italian insurance company Generali and the French bank BPCE today announced their intention to create a joint venture between their asset management operations. The new structure, a "major gl... (more story)
January 21, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Oncology service provider Tamarind Health’s planned acquisition of TalkMed, a publicly listed company in Singapore that also provides medical oncology and other healthcare services under the bran... (more story)
January 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Banco BPM has said it has received official confirmation that the Italian government won't block its planned acquisition of asset manager Anima through the use of its “golden power” — a mechanism... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Council of the EU today adopted the European Health Data Space regulation, with the stated aim to improve individuals’ access to — and control of — their personal electronic health data. The ... (more story)
January 21, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms announced today the launch of Instagram Teens Account in Japan, which enhances parental controls to protect users aged 13 to 17 from harmful content. This initiative follows the in... (more story)
January 21, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has issued policy frameworks to regulate and boost authorized use of public data, a move designed to unlock the value of these data resources amid a digital-economy push by the government. Three document... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Paris Local Division of the Unified Patent Court dismissed NJ Diffusion's request for an in-person hearing to inspect products in relation to its patent dispute with Gisela Mayer concerning E... (more story)
January 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: GEMA filed a lawsuit against Suno AI with the Munich Regional Court, accusing Suno of using the Germany-based music collecting society's copyrighted repertoire of songs without a license to train... (more story)
January 21, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce has expressed regret over the EU's decision to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement mechanism over China's judicial handling of sta... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 21, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Two men convicted of running a fraudulent investment scheme promoting teak plantations in Brazil today lost their bids to appeal both their UK convictions and sentences. Andrew Skeene and Junie Bowers repeated... (more story)
January 17, 2025 | Chris May, Khushita Vasant, Curtis Eichelberger and Clayton Vickers
North America
The US Department of Justice’s antitrust division had more total active civil investigations open in fiscal year 2024 than in any year for nearly a decade, workload statistics released today show.
January 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: As part of a coordinated effort, the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed approximately $2.... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 21, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK finance ministry has said it wants to intervene in the Supreme Court's three-day hearing over a major judgment on the mis-selling of car finance. The ministry fears that an outcome in favor of consumers... (more story)
January 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s plan to boost competitiveness, known as its "Competitiveness Compass" will focus on achieving a deep and liquid capital market, bureaucratic simplification, and clean energy — including ... (more story)
January 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Financial Conduct Authority applied to the Supreme Court for permission to intervene in a hearing over a major judgment on car financing. According to a document dated Jan. 14 and published t... (more story)
Trade View More
January 21, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The EU aims to upgrade its trade relationship with India, following deals with the Mercosur bloc and with Mexico, Ursula von der Leyen said today. This effort to boost bilateral trade relations with India foll... (more story)
January 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU customs authorities have been instructed to register imports of choline chloride from China into the bloc, the EU trade regulator said today. The step is meant to prevent stockpiling and allow... (more story)
January 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU imports of lever-arch mechanisms from China will continue to be subject to punitive dumping tariffs of up to 47.4 percent for five more years, the European Commission said today. The step foll... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Italian region of Campania can order Scai to repay support, based on a recovery decision the European Commission made with regard to Buonotourist, and on account of economic continuity betwee... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Portuguese territory of Madeira has lost its appeal at the EU's top court against the European Commission's order for Portugal to recover tax reductions granted to companies. In 2023, the low... (more story)
January 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU General Court today released summaries of appeals by Ryanair against an earlier decision to readopt Italian support to airlines to compensate them for damages triggered by the Covid pandem... (more story)
Energy View More
January 21, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The decision by US President Donald Trump to leave the landmark Paris agreement to fight climate change is a “truly unfortunate development,” EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra has said in a series ... (more story)
January 21, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Climate change fighters saw new US president Donald Trump order the country's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement to fight climate change. Though the order says the US considers the exit to be ef... (more story)
January 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European gas transmission operators' network is open to receiving feedback on its draft report on hydrogen infrastructure gaps identification for the Ten-Year Network Development Plan 2024. T... (more story)
Technology View More
January 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: In a letter to the European Commission, CCIA Europe, a lobby group representing platforms such as Google, Meta and X, says that Italy's anti-piracy initiative — designed to block access to websit... (more story)
January 20, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to wind back fact checking on Meta Platforms' social-media outlets won’t affect their Australian content ahead of the upcoming federal election, with third-party agreements set to remai... (more story)
January 20, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online retailers in the EU are still engaging in “unjustified geo-blocking” that is limiting consumers’ freedom by restricting their access to online goods and services across the EU, according t... (more story)