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Financial Services
April 01, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
Antitrust
April 01, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America, North America
Financial Services
April 01, 2025 | Helena Freitas
Europe
Antitrust View More
April 02, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Today’s antitrust ruling by Australia’s top court confirms the orthodoxy of competition law, suggesting that for a cartel to be established, both parties need to engage with one another and arrive at clear und... (more story)
April 02, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Japan Fair Trade Commission has created two new positions in preparation for the upcoming smartphone software competition law. Masaya Sakuma has been appointed as the director general for dig... (more story)
April 02, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s competition watchdog has announced that an updated mandatory Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, setting rules for retailers and wholesalers on supplier contract negotiations, is now in... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 02, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China is planning to integrate artificial intelligence technologies into its intellectual property regulatory framework, with the aim to improve efficiency in patent examinations and accelerate the use of pate... (more story)
April 02, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
A California bill that would create an accreditation framework for the growing number of artificial intelligence safety auditors is moving forward in the state legislature. The California Assembly’s Privacy an... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Former US Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu advocated today for broad patent and copyright protections for artificial intelligence works on Tuesday, criticizing prior guidance from his successo... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 01, 2025 | Chris May and Emma Whitford
North America
DuckDuckGo, a third party in landmark antitrust litigation against Google brought by the US Department of Justice over monopolization of search and search advertising markets, told federal lawmakers that the s... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority has approved Marquise’s purchase of Vera Cruz in the market for non-hazardous waste treatment and disposal. After a detailed review, the Administrative Council for Economic ... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Power company Constellation Energy's proposed acquisition of rival Calpine Corp. has drawn protests from the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel and the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate despite the mer... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 02, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Frustration with Big Tech’s “inaction” in reining in harmful social media content boiled over at a hearing today in the California legislature, where lawmakers pressed the tech industry for consistently stonew... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Despite the flurry of action on federal legislation to protect children online, the Trump administration’s decisions impacting the US Federal Trade Commission have stalled other initiatives to address the issu... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Non-Facebook users suing parent Meta Platforms over the use of website tracking tools by healthcare providers are seeking to expand the scope of the case to include the use of the technology by more entities b... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 01, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A law firm was sanctioned for the second time in six days when a federal judge in California yesterday declared patent infringement litigation filed on behalf of Koji IP “truly extraordinary.” The Ramey Firm a... (more story)
April 01, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Thomson Reuters opposed ROSS Intelligence’s request for an immediate appeal of a judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement of certain Westlaw headnotes and against ROS... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Mike Swift and Emma Whitford
North America
The New York Times and other news organizations are urging a federal judge to require OpenAI President Greg Brockman to undergo extended depositions in lawsuits over OpenAI's use of copyrighted works for AI tr... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 01, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions have asked for an additional two-week adjournment of their corruption trial. The request for the delay appears to have been made in a letter filed Friday... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an advisory to assist financial institutions in identifying and reporting suspicious activity related to the fina... (more story)
April 01, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, in coordination with the US Justice Department targeted a network of six entities and two individuals based in Iran, the United Arab... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 01, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The chair of the Single Resolution Board, Dominique Laboureix, said that policymakers should be careful not to weaken the rules regulating what happens when a bank fails. He said these were important to preser... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK financial services providers have been warned that improvements are needed in their processing of children’s data, in a report by the national privacy regulator. The Information Commissioner’s... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK claims management companies will see a 250 pound charge to refer a case to the Financial Ombudsman Service come into effect today. If the complaint is found in favor of the consumer they repre... (more story)
Trade View More
April 01, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Africa, North America
US Commerce erred in determining that the Moroccan government’s payroll tax refund constituted a de facto countervailable subsidy while calculating the antisubsidy duty rate for Moroccan phosphate fertilizers,... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
A major herbicide producer today called for the US International Trade Commission to determine harm to its business due to dumped imports of a key ingredient, 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-D), from China... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Africa, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade remanded the Commerce Department’s 2020-2021 review results for the antisubsidy duty order on phosphate fertilizers imported from Morocco.
State Aid View More
April 01, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has filed its plan to buy German chemicals group Covestro to the EU competition regulator for approval. The European Commission has set an initial May 12 deadline to decide on the 14... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
China Harbour Engineering has been thrown out of a tender to build a tunnel in Poland, after the European Commission scrutinized the impact of foreign subsidies on the bid, MLex has learned. The regulator also... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Agricultural business Tartu Agro has filed an appeal at the EU first-tier court to contest the European Commission's order for Estonia to claw back public funding from the company. Last year, the... (more story)
Energy View More
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission opened a public consultation on its updated rules on monitoring, reporting and verification of emissions related to the implementation of the Carbon Offsetting and Reducti... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today proposed a targeted amendment to the EU's emissions regulation for new cars and vans. The amendment offers the automotive industry flexibility in meeting the 2025 em... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Power generation from solar registered a new high in March, breaking a record for the third consecutive month, according to data published today by EU electricity industry lobby Eurelectric. Sola... (more story)
Technology View More
April 01, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
The EU's top competition official said today that officials and tech companies were on a "learning curve" when it came to compliance with the EU's regulation for gatekeeper digital platforms and that this coul... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The tech trade association NetChoice got its biggest win yet in court yesterday when a federal judge in Arkansas granted a permanent injunction barring the state’s age verification law from taking effect.
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex summary: A 5 million euro call for proposals to expand the European Network of Fact-Checkers, as part of the European Democracy Shield initiative, was announced today by the European Commission. The effor... (more story)