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Technology
July 07, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Antitrust
July 07, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Jean Comte
Europe
Financial Crime, Financial Services
July 07, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Antitrust View More
July 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Global food giants Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge Limited, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus Co. and others have been the primary beneficiaries of “lax competition policy and enforcement” and trade rules fav... (more story)
July 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Henry Liu, the former director of the US Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, has rejoined Covington as antitrust co-chair, the firm said in a statement. At the FTC, Liu led a team o... (more story)
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Waste management company Brantner has been fined 180,200 euros ($211,472) by the Slovak competition authority for abusing its dominant position by charging the towns of Martin and Vrútky a signif... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 07, 2025
Africa,Asia,Europe,Latin America,Middle East,North America,Oceania
MLex Summary: Leaders of the BRICS countries issued a statement on AI alongside the overall declaration from the 17th BRICS summit, which gave AI governance a significant place on the agenda for the first time... (more story)
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s code of practice for general-purpose AI models should increase its public transparency measures that have been limited in the final iteration of the text, a group of civil society organi... (more story)
July 07, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea’s parliament has approved the government’s supplementary budget bill that is mainly focused on spending to boost the economy but also includes about $150 million worth of fresh funding to support t... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: More than 200 independent record labels and trade associations have denounced Universal Music Group’s acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings, in a letter to the European Commission. The signatori... (more story)
July 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Capgemini, a global business and technology transformation partner, has agreed to buy WNS, a leading digital-led business transformation and services company, for $3.3 billion in cash. The compan... (more story)
July 07, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, or CCCS, has conditionally cleared a proposed commercial cooperation between Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines after accepting commitm... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Alexa voice-assistant users suing Amazon for alleged wiretapping may bring class action claims for damages under Washington’s Consumer Protection Act, a US judge ruled. Those who didn't register ... (more story)
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online tracking rules in the UK are being updated to reflect the Data (Use and Access) Act under new draft guidance published by the Information Commissioner’s Office today. The privacy regulator... (more story)
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online advertising in the UK — to users who haven’t granted consent — could be allowed under a new approach proposed today by the national privacy regulator. The Information Commissioner’s Office... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 07, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
A Chinese court has ruled in favor of e-commerce giants Taobao, Tmall and Taobao Software in a landmark unfair competition case centered on data rights and trade secrets — marking a significant step forward fo... (more story)
July 07, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Japan Patent Office reported that in 2024, patent and design filings increased while trademark filings declined year-on-year. According to its annual report released today, the final patent r... (more story)
July 07, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Sumitomo Chemical Company has emerged victorious in a trademark dispute after the Delhi High Court dismissed a suit filed by Coromandel Indag Products India Ltd., citing lack of legal standing. The court ruled... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Financial services firms should only treat those in the UK who hold “truly prominent positions” as politically exposed persons for the purposes of its money laundering regulations, their regulato... (more story)
July 04, 2025 | Sofia Gerace and Martin Coyle
Europe
A former Janus Henderson analyst who made almost a million pounds by illegally trading in stocks including Daimler and Jet2 was today jailed for six years in a London court.
July 04, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Two men who bombarded investors with cold calls in a crypto scam that netted them 1.5 million pounds ($2.1 million) have been jailed for more than 11 years in total today in the latest case of a growing trend ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The approval process for Lloyd's managing agents, which are responsible for managing groups of investors in the Lloyd's of London insurance market, is set to be streamlined after the Financial Co... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's investment firms and trading venues are being consulted to remove the Systematic Internaliser regime for bonds and derivatives. The regime regulates investment firms dealing on their own... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Financial and non-financial companies may be exempt from certain reporting obligations under the EU’s classification system for sustainable economic activities, known as the EU Taxonomy, the Euro... (more story)
Trade View More
July 07, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Social-media platform X Corp. has successfully overturned a post removal notice issued by Australia’s online safety regulator, after a tribunal ruled that the content did not meet the legal threshold for cyber... (more story)
July 07, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia, Europe
China has announced countermeasures targeting EU companies and products in the medical device sector, escalating tensions in an ongoing trade dispute. The Ministry of Finance issued a statement on Sunday outli... (more story)
July 07, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Malaysia has decided to impose provisional anti-dumping duties ranging from 3.86 percent to 57.9 percent on imports of galvanized steel coils or sheets and galvanized iron coils or sheets origina... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: PGI Spain, along with other companies including Berry Superfos and RPC Envases, have appealed a previous court defeat over a Spanish and Portuguese measure to back the input costs of fossil-fuel ... (more story)
July 02, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has seen the European Commission resume its foreign subsidy probe into the state-owned company's takeover of German chemicals group Covestro, following a five-week suspension. Th... (more story)
July 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain and Cellnex Telecom have lost their legal challenge to a European Commission decision that ordered Spain to recoup illegal state funding from digital terrestrial TV operators. Spain backed ... (more story)
Energy View More
July 07, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
The EU is aiming to introduce a new framework for nuclear power suppliers and buyers to negotiate long-term contracts known as power purchase agreements by the end of 2026, European Commissioner for Energy and... (more story)
July 07, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Low-carbon hydrogen producers should see the EU’s new methodology and rules for calculating their greenhouse-gas emissions tomorrow morning, an EU official told MLex. To be presented as a delegated act under t... (more story)
July 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today opened a public consultation on an overhaul for EU car labeling rules. The regulation aims to provide European consumers with accurate information about cars’ fuel u... (more story)
Technology View More
July 07, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea’s antitrust regulator has finalized sanctions against the country’s three mobile carriers, slashing the combined fine to 96.3 billion won (about $70.4 million) from an earlier proposed 114 billion ... (more story)
July 04, 2025 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
Google has been challenged before the European Commission and the British competition authority in an antitrust complaint for abuse of its AI summaries in online searches. A group of publishers and tech justic... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany’s data protection authorities said today that operators of critical infrastructure should be able to use a single reporting process for cybersecurity incidents under the EU’s new NIS2 dir... (more story)