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Financial Services
April 01, 2025 | Helena Freitas
Europe
DealRisk®, Financial Services, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 01, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
April 01, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Antitrust View More
April 01, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The American Antitrust Institute announced the creation of a new fellowship program for antitrust lawyers, economists, and other competition experts who have recently left the Federal Trade Commi... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
A planned collective action targeting mobile networks Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 over telecom contract "loyalty penalties" isn’t time-barred, the class representative of the litigation told a UK judge today. T... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
MLex Summary: Brazil’s antitrust authority has signed a technical cooperation agreement with the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, according to the country’s Official Journal. The agreement, which was signed on Mar... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 01, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission is currently delaying a decision on whether to propose binding regulations for AI in the workplace. Today, it released a study with inconclusive findings, which was already outdated, an... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Dina Kallay, the global head of antitrust at Ericsson and a former US Federal Trade Commission staffer, has been picked to be a deputy assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Div... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: While current EU law doesn't specifically address the usage of algorithmic management, existing rules like the Framework Directive on Safety and Health at Work, the GDPR, and non-discrimination l... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions 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
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The judge handling the US Department of Justice's lawsuit to block Amex GBT-CWT from merging said he will not change the trial date. The case will begin Sept. 8, as scheduled.
April 01, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Brazilian competition authority has dismissed an administrative proceeding investigating whether Azul and Gol’s codeshare agreement required prior antitrust notification, clearing the airline... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 01, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission staff wrote to operators of websites that sell employer identification number filing and delivery services warning that some of their practices may violate the FTC Act... (more story)
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)
April 01, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK privacy regulator, in the final quarter of 2024, responded within 90 days to only 12.3 percent of the data protection complaints it received, according to a report published today. The Information Commi... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 01, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
With business practices and products facing greater environmental scrutiny than ever, so too are promises to do more to help the planet — or less to harm it. But the threat to companies isn’t limited to legal ... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Europe
Findings by a UK appellate panel that reluctance by Ericsson to enter into an interim cross-license agreement with Lenovo for patents essential to the 4G and 5G WiFi standard is proof of a coercive effort to s... (more story)
April 01, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A US judge yesterday rejected trade secret misappropriation claims against WebMD by Medcenter Holdings and its subsidiaries in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. The dispute was one of the first to address the que... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Representative Maxine Waters, ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, issued a statement denouncing what she called a "takeover" of the Securities and Exchange Commission by ... (more story)
March 31, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Phoebe Seers
Europe
A bid to force the UK government to reveal details of any discussions between crypto exchange Binance and officials, including the former City minister, has been blocked by judges today. This follows an Inform... (more story)
March 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Amazon, Barclays, Google, HSBC, Monzo and other big name tech companies and banks have pledged to share live data in a bid to stop fraud. Under the umbrella of the Stop Scams organization, the co... (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 | 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)
April 01, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department amended the antidumping duty rate for imports of Indian granular polytetrafluoroethylene resin following the Court of International Trade’s determination sustaining Com... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An inaugural EU-Central Asia partnership summit takes place on Friday in Uzbekistan with the presidents of the European Commission and European Council both due to attend. Backed by the Global Ga... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nuctech has failed to convince judges at the EU's highest court to put an interim block on evidence gathered during raids carried out under the rules governing foreign subsidies. The company was ... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Chinese companies shouldn’t feel “targeted” by EU rules designed to combat distortive state subsidies from foreign countries, a senior EU official said today. Eddy de Smijter was responding to comments by a re... (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
North America
MLex Summary: An Arkansas federal judge has permanently blocked Arkansas Act 689, which requires social media companies to verify users' age, from going into effect, NetChoice said. NetChoice had challenged th... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK privacy regulator has clarified its expectations on how public sector institutions should respond to Freedom of Information requests. The Information Commissioner’s Office released new gui... (more story)
April 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will require companies to report more incidents while also allowing the government more flexibility to update regulatory frameworks, says a policy paper ... (more story)