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Artificial Intelligence
May 16, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Financial Crime
May 16, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Financial Crime, Financial Services
May 16, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Antitrust View More
May 19, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s independent government economic adviser has called for public submissions on how to boost the country’s productivity, with questions focusing on the impact of regulation on business d... (more story)
May 18, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Ridi, Munpia, Millie's Library and 20 other companies involved in production, publishing, distribution and platform services in the webtoon and web novel sector have been ordered by South Korea's... (more story)
May 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Apple asked a Washington federal judge today to reconsider her previous order allowing a putative class to change the class representative suing the companies over an alleged illegal agreement to... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
May 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Samsung Electronics filed an amicus brief today raising concerns about the remedies sought by the US Department of Justice in an Internet search monopolization trial against Google, saying the pa... (more story)
May 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Litigation alleging that Workday's use of artificial intelligence discriminated against people over age 40 has won approval from a federal judge for preliminary collective certification, allowing... (more story)
May 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Mozilla told a US federal judge today that the Department of Justice’s proposed remedies in a lawsuit over Google’s illegal monopoly in Internet search markets should exempt independent browser d... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
May 19, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Capital One Financial Corporation said Sunday that it completed its acquisition of Discover Financial Services. Capital One announced the merger February 19, 2024, and the combination was approve... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Telecom giant Verizon Communications’ proposed $20 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications was cleared today by the US Federal Communications Commission after a lengthy review. The FCC published its off... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Witnesses that Meta Platforms will call in a monopolization trial are its “own self-interested executives” who “cannot erase” the clear statements made in the social media giant’s own contemporaneous documents... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
May 16, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Online social networks must be forced to have built-in age verification mechanisms, and there should be a minimum age across the EU for accessing such platforms, Greece, France and Spain have urged in a discus... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A federal appeals court has revived Meta Platforms' challenge to the FTC’s bid to reopen a $5 billion privacy settlement as it seeks to impose changes to Facebook’s data practices that, among other things, li... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Video-sharing platform TikTok will see its appeal against a 12.7 million-pound UK data-protection fine for misusing children's data finally reach court on Monday, more than two years after it was issued. The p... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
May 16, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
A battle over AI and copyright in the UK Parliament appears set to continue, with lawmakers in the House of Lords reworking an amendment to the data reform bill to bring more protections to rights holders wher... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Litigation between enterprise software company Envoy Technologies and longtime licensee Cubic Corp. was dismissed yesterday in New Jersey. To succeed on a theory of direct copyright infringement, Judge Stanley... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A motion by HMD Global for judgment on the pleadings that technology directed to sound signal encoding and classification is ineligible for patenting was denied this week. The ruling by a Delaware federal judg... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
May 19, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: A man in New Zealand has been found guilty of attempting to fraudulently claim millions of dollars through the Covid-19 wage-subsidy program and other government support initiatives, following a ... (more story)
May 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Caroline Pham, the acting US Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair, said she plans to leave government once Brian Quintenz, President Donald Trump's nominee for permanent chair, is confirmed by the Senate.
May 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US judge has awarded $352.2 million in restitution to VTB Capital for losses incurred in an investment fraud tied to maritime projects in Mozambique that became known as the "tuna bond" case. T... (more story)
Financial Services View More
May 16, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has prepared a document, obtained by MLex, listing amendments to simplify the proposal for FIDA — the Regulation on Financial Information Data Access — in response to requ... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
France is to propose a label for long-term EU savings products next month aimed at helping mobilize citizens' savings for investment in projects of European interest, MLex has learned. The initiative, recommen... (more story)
May 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority that it oversees issued a joint statement withdrawing their 2019 statement regarding broker-dealer custod... (more story)
Trade View More
May 16, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
The US Court of International Trade today ruled the Commerce Department was correct in its determination that two Chinese companies were circumventing duty orders on solar cells from China by assembling the pr... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Bradley Dress and Zack Budryk
North America
The US Department of Justice will prioritize trade enforcement issues, including tariff evasion, according to a memo that previews a crackdown on trade issues amid US President Donald Trump’s global tariff campaign.
May 16, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
The US Court of International Trade today upheld a Commerce Department finding that Cambodian solar cell imports circumvented antidumping orders against Chinese-produced products.
State Aid View More
May 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Estonian agricultural business Tartu Agro has seen its request to suspend a decision ordering it to pay back illegal state aid — while its main challenge against the recovery order is pending — r... (more story)
May 15, 2025 | Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has sought EU foreign subsidy approval for its plan to take over German chemicals group Covestro, MLex has learned. The European Commission will now have 25 working days to decid... (more story)
May 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has issued its earlier decision to approve French government support to gambling operator Française des Jeux. The commission said — following an in-depth probe and France'... (more story)
Energy View More
May 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Heat pump and solar thermal providers could sell up to 100 million heat pumps by 2032 to energy-poor households across the EU, according to the European Environmental Bureau. Using one third of t... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Helena Freitas
Europe
A newly formed EU hydrogen operators network should make some changes to its statutory documents to bring them into compliance with EU regulation, the European Commission said in an opinion published today. Th... (more story)
May 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Three-quarters of electricity infrastructure projects are set to be commissioned by 2030, according to a report published today from the EU energy regulator ACER. For hydrogen, 33 out of 34 proje... (more story)
Technology View More
May 16, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
US federal and state antitrust officials raised concerns about company practices that aim to hinder enforcement efforts and advised in-house counsel to honestly and proactively engage with the government about... (more story)
May 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies, associations and the public can comment on the EU's proposed European Business Wallet initiative, which will expand the European Digital Identity Framework to businesses and public adm... (more story)
May 16, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Facebook had massive penetration among social media users and network effects that gave the social media platform an advantage over other rivals which was “not easy” for Google+ to copy, a former Google execut... (more story)