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Financial Services
April 15, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
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Antitrust, Technology
April 15, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Data Privacy and Security
April 14, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Antitrust View More
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: ZD Trhový Štěpánov has been fined more than 1 million Czech koruna ($45,000) by the Czech competition authority for abusing its significant market power and engaging in unfair commercial practice... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australia’s competition enforcer appears ready to pull the trigger on enforcement targeting Google over its dominance of Internet search markets, with a focus on pre-installation deals reached with mobile-phon... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Public Procurement Service has revised its criminal-referral request guidelines to exempt leniency applicants and companies that cooperated with antitrust investigations from referr... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea has issued updated guidelines on the introduction of hyperscale artificial intelligence tools at administrative and public institutions, containing the latest principles to follow for... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: A group of lawmakers from the party that holds a majority in South Korea’s legislature has proposed a bill to revise the Military Service Act to allow young men to work at artificial intelligence... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
Amid growing attention to the concept of AI sovereignty, South Korea’s KT Corp has announced the successful completion of a project to establish an LLM platform specifically tailored for Thailand, which also i... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's top merger-control regulator concluded 177 merger reviews in the first quarter of 2025, unconditionally approving 174, while three cases were withdrawn. During the period, the number of u... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The move by global infrastructure developer Acciona to acquire the East Rockingham Waste to Energy Program, which is currently in receivership, is being reviewed by Australia’s competition regula... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippine Competition Commission today announced its annual adjusted merger-notification thresholds, which increased to 8.5 billion pesos ($150 million) in terms of size of party and 3.5 bil... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 16, 2025 | Roffie Kurniawan
Asia
Indonesia’s new online child protection regulation aims to guide children in using technology safely and responsibly, not to prevent their access to the Internet, according to the Ministry of Communication and... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's Internet regulator plans to intensify efforts to handle reports of illegal online activities such as doxxing and the trading of personal data, according to its list of priorities for the year. Last yea... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Committee, or PDPC, has confirmed a personal data breach involving HomePro, a large home goods store, detected by the PDPC Eagle Eye Monitoring Center’s proact... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Aiming to harmonize the protection of creative works with industrial use, the Supreme Court of India delivered a significant judgment yesterday on the overlap between intellectual property regime... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, North America
South Korean biotech company ToolGen has won a patent-invalidation case in Japan, where Japan’s patent office invalidated a genome-engineering technology patent held by The Broad Institute, the Massachusetts I... (more story)
April 16, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Global electronics giant Philips and Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo have reached a settlement in their telecom standard-essential patent dispute in India, ending a five-year legal battle. The settlement,... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 15, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: A Peruvian court found the country's former president Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, guilty of money laundering and sentenced them each to 15 years in prison. They took illegal cont... (more story)
April 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, is demanding answers from Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and chief executive of Meta Platforms, on the company’s reported ef... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Former Meinl Bank boss Peter Weinzierl has seen his bid to overturn his extradition to the US on money laundering charges refused after a UK judge dismissed his appeal. Judge Adam Johnson said there were no gr... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK financial services providers, as well as consumers, have been asked for feedback on a second consultation from the Financial Conduct Authority, which seeks to simplify the disclosure requireme... (more story)
April 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency publicly released a letter sent to its supervised institutions regarding unauthorized access to OCC e-mail systems. The OCC said it immediately di... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has said its supervisory focus is changing, now that the deadline has passed for banks and insurers to embed its operational resilience rules. In a blog post ... (more story)
Trade View More
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: More than 4,000 alerts of dangerous non-food products were reported in 2024 — a record high — according to the European Commission’s latest Safety Gate study presented today. Cosmetics topped the... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's customs administration has convened a meeting with import-export companies and industry and trade associations, during which attendees voiced support for China's countermeasures against t... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s Deforestation Regulation will be adjusted to reduce red tape and “ensure a simple, fair and cost-efficient implementation” for both companies and authorities, the European Commission ann... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Norway has secured approval by the EFTA Surveillance Authority for its plan to fund a program to develop a wind farm in Utsira Nord, located in the North Sea. The farm will raise renewable energy... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU General Block Exemption Regulation needs to be simplified, according to comments from several member states seen by MLex. The legal text, which sets out some conditions to exempt state aid from the Euro... (more story)
April 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has won European Commission approval for its plan to spend 400 million euros to boost its generation of renewable hydrogen. Production will be supported through the “Auctions-as-a-Service” ... (more story)
Energy View More
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is gathering feedback from energy-intensive industries to inform the upcoming "Industrial Decarbonization Accelerator Act." This initiative aims to enhance sustainable and... (more story)
April 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The rules for promoting sustainable aviation fuels, through a support mechanism established and financed by the EU Emissions Trading System, were today published in the EU's Official Journal. The... (more story)
April 15, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US President Donald Trump initiated an investigation into imports of critical minerals under section 232. Trump signed an executive order today that requires the US Department of Commerce to revi... (more story)
Technology View More
April 15, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is likening his use of rulemaking power to limit children’s access to online adult content to barring the purchase of age-restricted materials like tobacco. But laws att... (more story)
April 15, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Media Matters, a watchdog group that assailed the content moderation practices of X Corp., opposed a motion to dismiss a US litigation against the company, saying that the court has already ruled... (more story)
April 15, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Social-media sites and other online platforms with UK users face a deadline of tomorrow to assess how likely they are to be accessed by children, ahead of online safety regulator Ofcom publishing final codes o... (more story)