Meta Platforms can expect a bruising 2023 when it comes to data protection enforcement in Europe and the USA.

Legislative and enforcement changes that lie ahead within financial services and fraud.

Officials around the globe grapple with the challenges of cryptocurrency and ledger-based technology.

Several antitrust battles between the European Commission and Big Tech likely to come to a head in 2023.

Matthew Newman explains why the enforcement of the EU’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act is likely to be dominating MLex’s coverage in 2023.

Meta Platforms faces another bruising year of global data protection enforcement in 2023

Fiona Maxwell outlines what she expects will be the most important areas of interest for her reporting in 2023.

European Commission post-Brexit proposal to repatriate the EU’s clearing activity

EU proposal initially targeted at tearing euro-clearing business away from London seems to have changed course

Insights from the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022

Key themes and take aways from the IAPP conference in Brussels

FTX filed for bankruptcy and freeze all withdrawals

Binance, has written to lawmakers in the UK to assure them it was not responsible for the downfall of its rival FTX.

EU to approve a common negotiating stance on the proposed EU implementation of updated global prudential banking standards

UK Competition and Markets Authority to oppose Meta’s controversial acquisition of gif database Giphy

Meta Platforms’ acceptance of a UK order to unwind its Giphy deal this week puts an end to more than two years of wrangling

Norsk Hydro seems to have been taken by surprise by the regulatory speedbumps

Norsk Hydro’s Alumetal deal, EU heightened vigilance about large companies snapping up smaller, innovative competitors.

Two directors at Belgium’s Data Protection Authority has highlighted the challenge faced by EU

Digital economy presents new scenarios for competition policy for which regulators and courts need "novel" and "creative" approaches

UK’s economic crime laws, handing more power to fraud enforcers, represents a big step in the fight against dirty money

UK collective action regime that pursues damages for businesses and consumers over alleged competition-law infringements

European Commission announced it had blocked the $8 billion Illumina-Grail merger.

MLex crunches the data on how the EU’s pioneering privacy law has been enforced.

EU GDPR — the bloc’s landmark privacy legislation — is now held up as a global regulatory standard

The rise of Liz Truss to the UK highest elected office has the potential to reshape the country’s regulatory landscape.

Illumina says the findings of the US administrative law judge invalidating the FTC bid to block its acquisition of Grail

EU price ceiling on gas is among a series of emergency measures that the bloc's energy ministers have asked

Illumina will likely eventually have to unwind its acquisition of Grail as a result of the EU merger regulator’s block on it

EU’s Illumina-Grail merger review has been a procedural rollercoaster

DPA's leadership split along the lines of the country's two main language communities

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss won the race to be next prime minister

UK financial regulators face an uphill battle to maintain their independence with the announcement of Britain’s new Prime Minister

EU's ability to fight climate change will be tested this autumn as negotiations between lawmakers and governments on important emissions files

European businesses are looking at 6G developments, even when the rollout of 5G networks is moving at a slower pace

Dealmakers anxious that the UK’s tough new national-security investment screening regime would be vulnerable to overreach

Data protection authorities across the EU seems increasingly troubled by political motives that delay the appointments of their top officials.

The European Commission is marshaling the troops to ensure enforcement of the Digital Markets Act

The promise of Brexit, the United Kingdom’s controversial departure from the European Union

Prosecution in Italy of oil and gas giants Shell and Eni over allegations of bribery in a $1.3 billion Nigerian oil-license

American Data Privacy and Protection Act, US lawmakers were inspired by privacy principles in Europe’s GDPR

EU will view any legacy of anti-virus technology through the prism of the tight standards set by its GDPR

The increasingly political debate over insurance capital cuts in the UK post-Brexit is set to become a top-agenda item

The prosecution of Shell and Eni in Italy over allegations of bribery over a $1.3 billion Nigerian oil license deal

A controversial data protection fine against a Dutch football television channel has been overturned

Department of Justice’s drawn-out criminal prosecution of chicken suppliers over cartel claims has come to an end

EU’s recently approved foreign subsidies instrument will test the ability of the European Commission

An interesting power dynamic is developing between the government, insurers and the central bank’s prudential regulator.

EU review of Illumina’s $8 billion takeover of cancer-testing company Grail could move quickly now that Court has spoken

Illumina may have been the first, but it likely won't be the last company caught by the EU merger regulator’s recent

The future of European sport will be invoked at back-to-back EU court hearings on skating and football.

A row over UK insurance rules looks set to be the first post-Brexit test of the power dynamics

Shell and TotalEnergies's to store carbon dioxide in old gas fields, working together to help the environment.

Enforcers of EU’s GDPR raised questions about whether the bloc’s landmark privacy legislation remains fit for purpose

Data breach that affected US bank-holding company Capital One was one of the largest in US history

Broadcom's $61 billion move to buy VMware has seen concerns flagged to the EU competition regulator

EU-based websites mustn't use Google Analytics because of rules against transferring personal data to the US, the Italian privacy watchdog ruled.

Enforcement of the GDPR against Big Tech is failing, and called for a more centralized approach.

With its new probe against Vifor Pharma, the EU's antitrust enforcer is heading into new territory

Planned EU rules to police foreign subsidies contain a last-gasp provision for companies that find themselves staring at a possible ban on mergers or tenders

Stellantis split from EU’s car lobby group ACEA highlights the broad range of regulatory challenges that carmakers face

Qualcomm's resounding EU court victory today creates two massive headaches for the European Commission.

A European court’s decision is being seen as a watershed moment for antitrust enforcement in the EU

Online platforms could see the final details of the EU's forthcoming content-moderation law fixed

Companies in the UK’s digital and technology sectors can expect a hands-off approach to regulation, a senior government figure pledged

Khan’s leadership of the US FTC has come under fire, with surveys suggesting the agency’s regulatory force of 1,100 staffers is particularly unhappy.

Broadcom’s $61 billion buyout of cloud giant VMware posing new challenges for regulators on both sides of the Atlantic

The increasing use of a mechanism to resolve disputes between EU data-protection regulators may present logistical and resource challenges

Greenwashing increases the risk of a late and disorderly transition to net-zero emissions, Bank of England warns

Chipmaker Broadcom plans a $61 billion buyout of cloud giant VMware might give observers a feeling of déjà vu

Financial regulators in the US have urged banks and other financial institutions to experiment with new products to help combat money laundering

Khan, Kanter in the spotlight at Berlin antitrust conference; and are US M&A reviews too lax

Meta’s recent attempt to overturn a decision by the UK competition watchdog to block the giant’s acquisition of Giphy

Big Tech faces the prospect of enforcers coordinating antitrust and regulatory probes at both the national and the European level

Under-resourced and under pressure, the Irish Data Protection Commission has long endured criticism from privacy campaigners

A company bottling drinks for Coca-Cola gives example of how a business that ignores the UK Bribery Act may end up punished in court.

UK prohibition of a Big Tech deal will be tested in court as Meta Platforms fights to get an order requiring it to unwind its purchase of Giphy quashed

European Commission has seemed more hesitant to block mergers lately, trace that back to its 2020 court loss to CK Hutchison.

Cargotec-Konecranes deal highlights EU-UK regulatory differences; and CADE’s penalty reckoning

Elon Musk’s pledge to make “significant improvements” to Twitter after being appointed to its board

A cryptocurrency disconnect is fast growing between the UK government and regulators.

The European Union’s unexpectedly swift review of the $8.5 billion Amazon-Metro Goldwyn Mayer deal was surprising

UK competition regulator’s block of Cargotec’s merger with Konecranes has set the tone for future split from the EC

SAMR, is investigating cellular patent licensing practices in the country over antitrust concerns and has sent questionnaires to several foreign companies

A planned prohibition on targeted advertising for children is causing trouble for negotiators on the EU’s Digital Services Act

EU has been tightening its grip on imports benefiting from cross-border subsidies that China uses to expand its clout

Virginia’s influential, pro-business privacy model; and Amex’s co-branding deals face Dutch scrutiny

Video-streaming tech championed by tech players has triggered EU antitrust questions over patent licensing terms

Amex’s ability to charge significant fees via co-branding deals with the likes of KLM is under scrutiny at the highest Dutch court

Outside the United States, Clearview AI’s business model is under threat. Australia and Canada have forced the company to shutter its local operations

European Commission wants big online platforms like Google and Facebook to pay the EU to monitor their compliance with the new legislation.

When the global community announced economic sanctions against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine

Social media platforms and online search engines will be legally responsible for fraudulent promotions on their sites

The use of cryptocurrencies to circumvent Russian economic sanctions looks set to fail as policymakers pledge to crack down on illegal activity

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine social media and other Internet platforms have played a particularly important role in the conflict

EU leaders have responded to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine with the harshest sanctions in the bloc's history

UK introduce new economic crime laws, but any new legislation must be matched by funding to help enforcers

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine certainly isn’t the first war chronicled online, social media and other Internet platforms

Google’s announcement that it will change the access to personal data available to apps on its Android platform

Data protection enforcement against Big Tech companies wouldn't be quicker if the Irish data protection agency was reformed

EU industrial data should be shared between businesses to unlock its full potential, the draft Data Act says

The UK’s competition enforcer’s approach to Big Tech has come to a fork in the road

Google announced that it will gradually change the access to personal data of apps on the Android platform

Credit Suisse could be the first major Swiss bank to be found guilty of money laundering failures in its home country

Electronics makers find themselves at loggerheads with EU debating whether to toughen standardization chargers

Intel’s legal battle against a 1.06 billion fine imposed by the European Commission has hit a significant milestone

UK competition regulator is under pressure to decide whether to mount enforcement action over the power of Big Tech

SFO's failure to charge individuals linked to Amec Foster Wheeler Energy's bribery has been thrown into the spotlight

EU financial services laws could inch towards an approach based on regulating activities rather than entities

Intel’s legal battle against a 1.06 billion fine imposed by the European Commission has hit a significant milestone

EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act is yet in sight, but businesses are starting to get an idea of how enforcement might look

Carmakers & tech will scrutinize the data retention regime suggestion for how UK should regulate automated vehicles

HP has won its multibillion-dollar claim against Autonomy’s founder, Mike Lynch, and former CFO, Sushovan Hussain

DSA is heading into the final stage of the EU’s lawmaking process, with the broad outline becoming clear

Intel’s win in the EU courts after a 13 year battle over the legality of chip rebates will give hope to the likes of Google

UK needs a new law on self-driving vehicles with a robust two-step regulatory framework to ensure safe roll out

EU exporters of metals, cement and fertilizers are pushing for rebates to be included under the proposed CBAM

France’s privacy watchdog is cracking down on how US Big Tech seeks consent from users for advertising cookies

Killer acquisitions are back on the agenda and it’s disrupting the EU's review of an acquisition by Meta

Meta’s acquisition of Giphy, the database of looped videos known as gifs, has run into trouble in the United Kingdom.

Meta’s Kustomer deal puts EU antitrust’s 'one-stop shop' principle under strain

Facebook was accused of illegally copying the world’s largest repository of digitized and realistic three-dimension objects and scenes from a Lithuanian startup.

Should Meta advance an appeal over the UK CMA's prohibition of its acquisition of Giphy, it faces an uphill battle in getting the decision quashed.

Amazon has taken on Visa and warned that it will stop taking payments from customers using Visa credit card issued in the UK.

Facebook was accused of illegally copying the world’s largest repository of digitized and realistic three-dimensional objects and scenes

UK regulators are facing pressure to balance a push to roll out automated vehicles quickly and the public’s ongoing trust issues with the technology

Amazon’s decision to block UK-issued Visa credit cards has called the payment giant’s bluff and may be enough to bring its fees down.

The EU's court ruling upholding the EC's 2.42 billion euro antitrust fine against Google is a vindication of the enforcer’s decision to go after the tech giant.

The court victory over Google offers a roaring vindication for EU competition boss Margrethe Vestager's uncompromising pursuit of Google on antitrust grounds.

Facebook has undertaken a radical project in rebranding and reframing. The tech company will now be known as Meta.

Mark Zuckerberg sees the immersive computing platform of the "metaverse" as the future of his company, now rebranded from Facebook to Meta.

Both Apple and Google are grappling with mounting antitrust concerns over the way they manage their app stores.

An EBA probe into money laundering at Danske Bank saw Danish and Estonian regulators in effect acting as judges in their own trial in a key April 2019 vote.

Facial recognition tools are coming under intense scrutiny in Europe, with privacy watchdogs using the GDPR

Credit Suisse’s $475 million hit for serious financial-crime failings warns banks of the risks in doing business in parts of the world dogged by corruption.

The successful prosecution of UK bank NatWest over money-laundering charges was a watershed moment

Facebook should be fined and have to make its terms of service more transparent after violating EU data protection

EU gas-storage rules, a common gas-procurement system and changes to the design of the bloc’s electricity market

NatWest’s guilty pleas to criminal charges of money-laundering failures can be understood as an early result

Facebook’s finances have never looked better, with the social-media platform posting earnings of $29 billion

Google's fight against four integral elements of the EU's overarching antitrust case triggered questions from an EU judge

Facebook’s senior leaders have long warned that privacy would soon affect its bottom line, as new privacy laws in Europe

Restrictions on the way Apple’s iPhone and iPad interact with "wearable" devices have triggered questions from EU

Apple may have hoped that its decision to search the contents of its iPhones to identify images of child sexual abuse

US chipmaker Nvidia’s move to buy Arm, a UK chip designer, for $40 billion is facing regulatory headwinds

Google is the target of a fresh EU antitrust probe over its Android operating system to sideline rival voice assistants

Website owners that haven’t followed French guidelines on cookie banners are likely to face fines before the end of the year

UK charging stations for electric vehicles will see reduced barriers to connecting to the national electricity grid

Energy companies contemplating lawsuits against EU governments over their climate plans

Zoom’s offer to pay $85 million to settle privacy litigation over so-called Zoombomings

The likelihood of German companies being publicly named in decisions by data regulators seems to be decreasing.

The UK’s competition watchdog is set to receive a shot in the arm, with the government putting forward

UK lenders are supporting the FCA in its battle against cryptocurrencies, as it begins a multimillion-pound campaign.

The UK competition regulator’s efforts to raise its public profile have been given a boost by the government.

UK clearinghouses face the expiration of a temporary EU equivalence decision at the end of June 2022

Acquisition-hungry companies worried at plans to tweak the UK's merger-control regime should be comforted.

The EU banking watchdog's handling of probes into money laundering at Danske Bank and Pilatus Bank.

The “fit for 55” package sets out exactly how the EU executive plans to reduce the bloc’s emissions by 55 percent.

The European Union’s ambitious plan to transform the region’s economy in a bid to combat climate change

EU Commission tells US court to limit the disclosure of documents in a class action against salmon companies.

EU countries will have to cut their energy consumption by at least 9 per cent by 2030 compared to 2020 levels

Online platforms get more guidance from the EU’s top court on whether they can keep using automatic upload filters

EU merger control is unlikely to become less burdensome for companies in complex cases despite their complaints.

WhatsApp avoided a permanent data processing ban in the EU after the bloc’s privacy regulators rejected a request

The green credentials of nuclear power have come under recent scrutiny in the European Union

Google has fended off a fresh raid on its “crown jewels,” the secret algorithms behind its lucrative search-engine rankings.

EU regulators grappling with the Illumina-Grail deal have to contend with two conflicting interests.

Nuclear power’s status as an environmentally-friendly investment has been disputed by two rival scientific advisory groups.

EU competition officials are back to their tough old selves as Europe emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic

“Cookie banners” on websites could be subject to a crackdown among EU privacy regulators, led by France.

Digital advertising is back on the agenda in Europe, with the announcement of a fresh EU antitrust probe.

Organized criminals will eventually use artificial intelligence for money laundering.

UK Bribery Act, which has helped the UK become one of the top enforcers of global bribery settlements.

A ban on EU lenders using social-media data to check borrowers’ ability to repay loans appears to be one of the first legislative attempts to respond to the incursion of Big Tech companies and AI techniques into finance.

A Bank of England official made a plea to corporations to identify “absolutely pervasive” Libor exposures outside the financial sector

Allowing national competition authorities to enforce the DMA is probably the European Commission's best bet.

IAB Europe held a hearing earlier this month with the Belgian data protection authority.

A central part of the EU’s ambitious privacy legislation, the GDPR, was put to the test recently.

YouTube. The advertiser-facing side of the adtech market. Google’s efforts to grapple with privacy rules.

Big Tech’s use of your vocal-cord vibrations as the access point to a world of services and products.

National data protection regulators in the EU will be emboldened to pursue Big Tech companies.

UK steelmakers will soon face stiffer competition from foreign rivals for products such as tin mill and wire rod.

A private investigator working for ENRC said that he leaked confidential information to the press.

EU-bound steel goods will continue to face “safeguard” restrictions for another three years as part of the bloc’s bid to offset US steel tariffs.

Smart devices are the technology of the future, but they're suffering from the antitrust ailments of the past.

A French bid to create a Netflix rival will face intense scrutiny from the country’s own competition authority.

European telecom and adtech companies should innovate in using non-personal data to advertise, rather than lobbying for lighter EU privacy rules.

EU public-procurement markets should be restricted for businesses from countries whose own markets are not open to European companies.

The world’s largest tech companies including Amazon.com, Apple, Google and Facebook should be the clear targets of an EU law on gatekeeper power.

“Fish for finance” may sound like a trendy eatery in London’s West End, but it is simply the latest round of post-Brexit animosity.

EU bank crisis-management guidance out does little to address a complex and discretionary system.

An antitrust claim against the richest league in world football from one of its own clubs was always going to be the legal equivalent of a must-see match.

When lawyers for the UK arm of Eurasian Resources Group stand up at the High Court in London and kick off weeks of argument that the Serious Fraud Office owes the company tens of millions of pounds.

A new EU-wide money laundering watchdog will hold both supervisory and intelligence functions to fight illicit financial flows across the bloc by 2026.

Covid-19 may have cleared the streets of climate-change activists such as the global movement Fridays for Future inspired by Greta Thunberg, but that doesn’t mean protest has been silenced.

The latest fracas between the UK and the EU over France’s fishing license in Jersey waters is just that - the latest.

Like a good murder novel, the demise of ABLV Bank of Latvia has left us with a chalk silhouette on the sidewalk.

Getting senior Euronext, Cboe and BNY Mellon executives to advise on how to boost EU capital markets.

Latvian bank ABLV’s legal defeat at the EU’s top court today opens the door to other judicial challenges.

Companies supercharged by subsidies from foreign governments such as China and Russia will face probes.

A judge’s order for two former Serco executives to be acquitted of fraud charges is not just a humiliation for the SFO.

The joint statement by the antitrust regulators of Australia, Germany and the UK this week.

Makers and users of "high-risk" AI tools, such as facial recognition, are at the center of the European Commission.

Antitrust accusations will fly in both directions. New European Super League will be accused of a closed-door stitch-up.

US Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit to block Illumina’s acquisition of Grail contains ominous portents.

Illumina’s outrage at an attempt by the European Commission to capture a non-notifiable deal is a sign of the kind of backlash that a revision might bring.

Biden administration may still struggle to have its ambitious plans for an antitrust revamp adopted.

Planned EU trade defense tariffs have become more likely to sail through approval processes without opposition during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The EU hopes to proceed with the adoption of the UK data and law-enforcement adequacy decisions "by the end of May, beginning of June".

The EU has begun a legal action against the UK government after its decision to extend the grace period for some post-Brexit agrifood import controls in Northern Ireland.

If enacted, the EU’s Digital Markets Act will significantly curb the power of Google, Facebook, Amazon & Apple.

Veolia’s hostile bid for rival Suez could be the first major test of the European Commission’s approach to environmental arguments in its merger reviews.

The rollercoaster ride that shares of GameStop went on earlier this year had little to do with the value of the US videogame and electronics retailer.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ reaccreditation by the American National Standards Institute has stirred controversy.

Alleged interest rate fixing in Lithuania following the 2008 financial crisis needs to be investigated by EU authorities as market abuse.

An administrative scrap over which group of EU lawmakers gets to lead scrutiny of a new law to curb the power of the biggest platforms reveals the tensions.

EU lawmakers’ hopes to significantly expand the bloc’s proposed climate law have been doused by national governments.

Apple and Samsung may be tapped for data on the market for smartphone chips to assist a planned UK mass damages lawsuit against Qualcomm.

EU’s insurance watchdog will in future publish details of legislative developments, a senior official has told lawmakers.

US stock-market volatility & the rise of easy-to-use online brokerages are causing EU regulators to look at tweaking the bloc's rulebook.

While UK businesses will raise a cheer at the EU's data adequacy proposal, their joy may prove premature.

The growth of artificial intelligence in a wide range of business applications is likely to place another burden on European data protection authorities.

Ryanair has suffered a setback in its challenge to the EU’s state aid response to the Covid-19 pandemic, after the EU’s lower court rejected its appeals.

A highly anticipated EU report on standard-essential patents has laid bare the problem: There's no sign of peace.

As the UK’s emerging collective-action regime finds it feet, eyes are focused on this significant “carriage dispute”.

Large online platforms could be held responsible for hosting misleading financial-market information or abuse, EU regulators have suggested.

Apple & Google’s UK lawsuits from Epic Games over their lucrative app store governance not only re-expose the US tech titans to rising antitrust risk, but also broaden litigation.

EU insurance watchdogs should publish details of how national regulators vote on laws affecting the sector,

EU banking officials are still pursuing measures which would undermine international rules designed to ensure lenders hold enough capital.

Insurers’ defeat at the hands of the UK's top judges against small businesses claiming Covid-19 payouts could be the first step toward irreversible change for the sector.

WhatsApp’s controversial privacy-policy changes have now drawn the scrutiny of Italian regulators.

Proposals for EU powers to fine “very large” platforms up to 6% of their annual revenue for violating rules on hate speech and the sale of illegal goods will spark a debate.

Sports-governing bodies will breathe a sigh of relief at a judgment from EU judges, despite siding against the International Skating Union.

Proposed EU rules to force Big Tech companies to remove illegal content will establish a complex enforcement structure.

Established Internet giants and tomorrow’s digital gatekeepers alike could face dawn raids, information demands and interview requests for top executives.

EU financial markets are set to get a unified data service, known as a consolidated tape, even as the US rethinks its own longstanding arrangements.

With its weighty fines for Google and Amazon.com, France’s data-protection authority appears to have found a workaround to the GDPR's clunky one-stop shop mechanism.

End-to-end encryption in messaging services has been a boon for privacy.

EU banks hope the expansion of their new payments initiative will ease antitrust concerns that the planned rival to Visa and Mastercard is a closed shop.

Insurers could face a defeat on a key legal ruling on whether policyholders were restricted in accessing their place of business during the height of the UK’s Covid-19 outbreak.

Mergers and acquisitions involving foreign investors will be facing tough new standards in the UK, amid growing concerns over national security.

The EU shouldn’t expect any “revolutionary” changes to how a new US administration approaches talks on trans-Atlantic data transfers.

EU-based data exporters began reviewing updated model contracts for international data transfers — known as Standard Contractual Clauses or SCCs.

Would-be foreign investors into UK companies have seen the government this week lay out a regime for screening deals under national-security grounds that is so far-ranging.

Google, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms may see new obligations to swiftly remove terrorist content online passed this year.

Amazon.com’s data-driven business model and its dizzy expansion have prompted a pioneering European Commission probe into Big Data online.

WhatsApp, Signal and other messaging services may face new EU obligations to cooperate with law-enforcement agencies.

New EU legislation that would impose restrictions on the likes of Facebook, Amazon and Google is facing headwinds.

A privacy campaigner's Irish judicial review relating to Facebook's data handling will be heard next January.

The UK’s plan to roll over EU trade-defense measures after the end of Brexit transition period has drawn the opposition of Russia and China.

Google’s online advertising business and the importance of data for competition have been at the forefront of Europe’s antitrust debate for the last half-decade

EU data regulators will issue guidance on how EU-based data exporters should implement a landmark EU court decision.

The European Commission is grouping together its initiatives relating to the functioning of online markets — including plans to regulate gatekeeper platforms — in a proposal called the Digital Markets Act.

The British slice of Goldman Sachs’ hefty global 1MDB settlement represented a modest 5 percent of the $2.3 billion total.

The future of data flows between the UK and the European Union in a post-Brexit world aren’t at the top of the agenda in negotiations between the two sides.

The UK already had a high wall to climb for it to win an adequacy decision that will let it continue data flows to the EU after Brexit.

Visa's UK clearance to buy Plaid showed the Competition and Markets Authority to be unafraid of evaluating and dismissing "killer acquisition" concerns.

Undue secrecy in EU financial lawmaking by supervisory watchdogs will be probed by the bloc’s ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly.

The General Law for Data Protection (LGPD), effective since Sept. 18, was a huge step toward a bigger role for Brazil in the global digital economy.

The current legal safeguard for whistleblowers in the UK is "toothless, overly complex and lacks the backing it needs to be effective."

EU judges’ recent invalidation of the bloc’s data-transfer agreement with the US has meant uncertainty and risk for tech giants.

Microsoft is to be asked by German watchdogs to improve its data-protection standards for its Office 365 program.

The LSE’s planned sale of Borsa Italiana probably won’t in itself be enough to secure EU approval for its purchase of financial data powerhouse Refinitiv.

Proposal to allow WhatsApp, Skype, Viber & others to continue screening for child-abuse images & messages could help ease negotiations on draft bloc-wide rules.

Virtual currencies and other innovative payment methods could ultimately get a boost from EU regulators.

The UK government's draft laws to change parts of the divorce agreement with the EU would waive its obligations to keep Northern Ireland under EU state aid rules.

The nomination of Ireland’s Mairead McGuinness to be EU financial services commissioner is unlikely to derail the bloc’s major political goals.

The EU plans to extend its temporary Covid-19 waiver on airport slot rules.

Huawei must accept a single global license for mobile-phone patents held by Unwired Planet.

Google, Facebook & other social media giants may face new restrictions as European Parliament members have called for a clampdown on behavioral advertising.

Division over Ireland's Twitter probe between EU regulators has flared up after the authorities were invited to give their input.

EU clean-energy investors shouldn’t hold their breath for a deal on planned bloc-wide rules to make climate neutrality by 2050 legally binding.

British Airways has denied that customers subject to a data breach in 2018 suffered any serious financial loss or are due any compensation.

A growing number of UK banks are choosing to follow US recommendations on how to structure contractual fallbacks.

Connected-car patent pool Avanci’s 5G licensing program was approved by the US Department of Justice.

Microsoft’s planned purchase of TikTok won't likely face the antitrust resistance that seems to meet all Big Tech acquisitions in the EU these days.

Allianz Global Investors & other fund managers scored a win, as a UK judge agreed to their request to re-plead an antitrust lawsuit.

A planned EU levy on carbon-intensive imports is likely to be proposed next year.

International Airlines Group now estimates that it may need to pay 22 million euros in GDPR fine

Restaurants and bars that have been ordered to keep registers with customers' personal data to track Covid-19 infections are being closely monitored.

A patent-licensing dispute between Nokia and Daimler could create years of uncertainty for technology companies signing license agreements.

A legal case taken by Wirecard investors against the German financial regulator BaFin is in “uncharted waters”.

Shippers and airlines operating in the EU have been reminded that the bloc plans to propose an expansion of its Emissions Trading System.

Eight of the world’s biggest insurance companies are gearing up for a court case brought by the UK’s financial services regulator.

A landmark ruling by the EU’s top court on international data flows will lead to more legal uncertainty for thousands of companies that use an EU data transfer mechanism.

Google’s appeal of a French injunction to negotiate with press publishers is a sharp judicial test for the French competition authority’s bold use of interim measures.

Google had a “state of play” meeting with EU merger case handlers yesterday to discuss its planned acquisition of fitness tracker company Fitbit.

Tackling Big Tech’s challenges is a team effort, the UK’s competition regulator signaled.

Football clubs around Europe are turning to antitrust rules in a bid to avoid relegation or secure a spot in lucrative European competitions.

The Competition and Markets Authority, which today published the final report on its year-long market study into online platforms and digital advertising

Lossmaking small businesses will be eligible to receive EU support under the temporary Covid-19 state aid framework.

Lufthansa’s 9 billion-euro bailout package, approved by the European Commission and shareholders, will be talked about for years to come.

The Daimler-Nokia patent-licensing dispute has drawn a third round of questions to market participants from the European Commission.

Nokia, Sharp, Daimler, Continental & others fighting over licensing technology in connected cars may see their dispute effectively fast-tracked.

Commerzbank’s multimillion-pound fine for money-laundering failings tells a familiar sorry tale of an under-resourced & stretched financial-crime department.

A mammoth fine dished out to Commerzbank by the UK financial services regulator is a taste of things to come, as fraud is driven by Covid-19.

Investigations of the App Store and Apple Pay are latest enforcement initiatives designed to tackle digital platform operators

Facebook is likely to argue that its completed acquisition of Giphy is a straightforward case of vertical integration and doesn’t give rise to competition issues.

Google's eight-figure fine from French data regulator CNIL for breaching EU privacy rules is proportionate and should be upheld.

Sabre faces an uphill battle to get the UK antitrust regulator’s block of its Farelogix buyout quashed.

Chinese companies acquiring control or at least 35 percent of shares in EU companies might face a new bloc-level review.

Companies backed by significant Chinese subsidies could be subject to a new kind of EU investigation that would correct distortions & restrict behavior inside Europe's internal market.

Google, Facebook & other Big Tech companies can expect increased EU scrutiny & a set of new regulations targeting their businesses in the bloc.

Companies using algorithms to set prices & manage suppliers, as well as concentrated sectors such as mobile telephony or air transport, could be some of the surprise victims of new proposal for new EU powers.

Facebook, Amazon.com and other tech giants could see a new watchdog emerge from EU plans to curb the power of “gatekeeper” online services.

A planned mass damages claim against UK train operators over fares won’t be derailed.

As the EU marks the second anniversary of GDPR, large US tech companies should prepare for regulatory enforcement in the months ahead.

As the Irish privacy watchdog sends its Twitter probe off to EU counterparts for review today, it will doubtless hope for quick, constructive feedback.

The EU steel, transport and construction industries should be at the forefront of an “acceleration” of initiatives aimed at curbing emissions.

PrivatBank has cases in play around the world in its long-running bid to claw back billions of dollars that it claims were spirited away by two former owners.

Insurer Hiscox is being sued by a group of EU businesses for failing to pay out for a coronavirus hit to business.

Digital "gatekeepers" such as Apple, Facebook & Amazon could face a new EU law curbing them from exploiting combined data sets.

EU asset managers should have to reveal holdings in all kinds of fossil-fuel companies, not just in coal producers, under planned sustainability disclosure rules.

Retailers exploiting the coronavirus outbreak with price hikes could soon see tougher enforcement by the UK CMA

While there have been scores of national support measures approved under the EU's temporary coronavirus state aid framework, strikingly only Denmark has made extensive use of an alternative mechanism.

Deliveroo demonstrated the impact the coronavirus is having on antitrust priorities with news that Amazon's investment in the outfit has provisionally cleared.

Contact-tracing apps will benefit from a “pan-European & coordinated approach” to regulation after European data-protection authorities endorsed the EC’s draft guidance.

A landmark UK ruling freed Wm Morrison Supermarkets from indirect liability for a rogue employee's data leak — but still leaves the door open for future litigation targeting companies over accidental data disclosures by employees.

The European Commission is planning to temporarily suspend tariffs and value-added tax on imported protective medical equipment in response to the worsening Covid-19 crisis, MLex has learned.

Dominant digital platforms would need to meet strict — and still undefined — criteria to be classified as “essential facilities,” EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has said.

Climate change looks set to become a point of contention in post-Brexit trade talks, with the EU pushing for stricter commitments.

Europe’s airlines, struck down by the Covid-19 pandemic, shouldn’t expect a free rein from the European Commission on receiving emergency bailouts from national governments.

Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms will find it tough to escape increasing regulatory scrutiny in the UK to ensure they curb harmful and illegal content as much as possible, as the country’s various watchdogs are starting to present a united front to plug the gaps in regulating Big Tech.

EU banks and other entities at high risk for money laundering might face on-site visits from the bloc's inspectors under plans being drawn up by the European Commission, MLex has learned.

European consumers suing Facebook in coordinated class actions in Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Spain over the Cambridge Analytica scandal are facing an uphill battle that suggests that litigation over privacy rights might not, as previously hoped, be quicker and more successful than regulatory probes.

Amazon.com & the European Commission sparred over whether the regulator was time-barred from probing a 2003 tax ruling.

Banks’ operations, exposures and potentially their capital rules could all be affected by the worldwide spread of the Covid-19 virus, even as global regulators insist the fundamentals of financial stability remain sound.

A UK push for enhanced EU equivalence conditions that would offer London financiers greater certainty after Brexit seems likely to be achievable, given the narrow distance between negotiating mandates published by both sides this week.

EU manufacturers will see mandatory "sustainability rules applicable to all products" proposed by the EC

A former prosecutor fired by the UK's Serious Fraud Office for gross misconduct won't face any action by the country's Solicitors Regulation Authority, a body governing lawyers, MLex has learned.

Forthcoming Irish decisions over Facebook, Twitter and other Big Tech companies for violations of EU privacy rules may well spark disagreement and "reasoned" demands for reappraisal from other regulators in the bloc, Ireland's top privacy watchdog expects.

Google has been asked by EU data-protection authorities to conduct a privacy-impact assessment of its proposed $2.1 billion acquisition of health-tracking company Fitbit before notifying the proposed deal to the European Commission for competition approval, MLex has learned.

Big Tech companies operating in the UK will get an early sense of what lies ahead for them.

Don't be fooled by the latest eruption of fire and brimstone from big EU countries pushing for a loosening of the bloc's merger rules to allow the creation of "European champions."

Google is "overwhelmingly dominant" and its algorithms "consigned rival services to the darkness that lies beyond Page 2" of its search results, the European Commission told EU judges today.

Smaller businesses such as fitness studios, translation services and car-rental services operating in the central German state of Hesse should face modest fines for failing to comply with EU privacy rules, a senior official from the state's privacy regulator told MLex.

Google's privacy investigation in Ireland risks being less thorough than activists had hoped for, as a result of the data-protection authority's decision to frame its probe as an own-initiative action rather than a response to widespread complaints against the Internet giant.

Is the bark of the UK's Serious Fraud Office worse than its bite? Observers might be forgiven for thinking so, given the trifling fine handed to a billionaire's daughter for refusing to hand the SFO evidence in a corruption probe.

IT businesses in Europe are set to face new rules on energy efficiency and device repairability.

Amazon.com and Deliveroo have a challenge ahead to defend their stake-purchase agreement by convincing the UK's competition regulator that they don't compete with each other — a finding that would require it to diverge from its established approach.

UK efforts to prosecute individuals on corruption charges linked to Airbus are likely to avoid French "blocking" laws but could be hindered by France's own efforts to prosecute wrongdoing.

Companies' direct-marketing practices have come under scrutiny in Finland to check their compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, the country's deputy data-protection ombudsman has told MLex.

Barclays, Citibank and Royal Bank of Scotland are among six banks at risk from a planned UK mass lawsuit against them over foreign-exchange rate-rigging because thousands of market participants have been "wronged," the man heading up the claim has said.

Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon is an instrument of destruction. Courtesy of the EU's exit clause, the UK's membership of the bloc will end at 23:00 GMT today, and the laws underpinning supply chains, diplomatic clout and individual rights accumulated over years will be scythed clean through.

Companies charged with breaking EU merger procedures may get fine reductions if they agree to cooperate with investigators.

If an increasing number of financial companies choose to set up offices in the UK post-Brexit — as new data from the London-based Financial Conduct Authority suggest — the country might be able to go its own way on rules without fears the EU will shut off access to customers in the bloc.

The UK government bailout of Flybe, which has drawn a state aid complaint to the European Commission from rival IAG, comes just as the EU digs in its heels on keeping the UK tied to the bloc's "level playing field" rules in future.

When the latest update of EU rules to fight money laundering took effect last week, they were accompanied in the UK by a flurry of regulatory reminders and warnings that a new era was beginning.

EU telecom operators and tech companies expect the new European Commission, which took office in December, to put forward some of its digital plans in coming weeks, including rules on artificial intelligence.

For drugmakers Pfizer and Flynn Pharma as well as the UK's antitrust authority, the holiday season may offer a brief diversion from a landmark UK court dispute that will dog them well into next year.

Multinational companies keen to adopt EU-wide codes of conduct to show they respect data-privacy rules should get clearer guidance next year on what's needed in particular sectors — but other roadblocks to progress remain.

World leaders' failure to agree on international commitments at the recent UN climate summit in Madrid may encourage the EU to beef up its policies and take a harder stance with its trade partners.

On Oct. 22, in yet another day of Brexit high drama in the House of Commons, UK lawmakers torpedoed Boris Johnson's plan to ratify the exit deal sealed in Brussels the previous week. They blew the Conservative leader's "do or die" Oct. 31 deadline out of the water, and set the course for a general election.

The UK won't be pushed into softening its Brexit plans and will seek a "Canada-style" free-trade agreement with no obligation to follow EU rulemaking, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted on Monday, 16 December.

Scotland's principal arts funding agency is breaking antitrust rules with a key grant program and must be stopped, a Scottish publisher has urged judges in the latest test of fast-track procedures designed to give individuals and small businesses with competition-law grievances quick access to justice.

Facebook, Google and other Big Tech companies should be subject to bank-like restrictions on capital requirements, hiring practices and misselling when they venture into financial services, a group of advisers to the European Commission said in a report published on 13 December 2019.

Will leaving the EU’s single market turn the UK into a light-touch entrepôt or a protectionist backwater? For more than three years, the rhetorical debate has raged, but now the thesis that Brexit will herald an experiment in deregulation can be tested against a body of evidence.

Google’s data collection has attracted the scrutiny of EU antitrust regulators, MLex understands, opening a new front against the search-engine company.

After five years at the helm of the European Commission’s powerful antitrust watchdog, Margrethe Vestager still has unfinished business.

Starbucks’ successful challenge before an EU court against a European Commission decision ordering it to pay millions in extra taxes to the Netherlands will not be appealed, the bloc’s competition boss Margrethe Vestager has told MLex.

Problems that multinational companies have faced in EU privacy probes will be picked over at a closed-door meeting in Brussels next month as part of the runup to a review of the General Data Protection Regulation next May, MLex has learned.

Google risks losing its secret “crown jewels." That was its stark message as it waits for a UK court ruling on whether it must hand over confidential information on key technology underpinning its search engine.

EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager is facing her first major policy test in her double role as competition commissioner and digital regulator as she weighs whether to start a formal investigation into Nokia’s licensing of mobile technology used in Internet-connected cars.

As London's financial sector faces an uncertain future post-Brexit, the UK government has called on regulators to ensure it retains its attractiveness — and that means enforcers might think twice before using their toughest weapons.

UK businesses have begun a nervous wait for a final verdict in the data-breach court battle that has pitted Wm Morrison Supermarkets against an army of its employees — and that threatens far-reaching implications for any organizations handling quantities of personal data.

Proposals for EU clearinghouses to come under tougher capital rules — a move the world's biggest banks have been calling for — will be discussed this week by member states, MLex has learned.

Major finance, retail and media companies in Ireland are facing scrutiny from the country's data-privacy regulator over whether their use of cookies complies with data-protection laws.

Boris Johnson’s big win in his revised Brexit deal was shifting the UK-wide “level playing field” commitments — covering labor, environmental, tax and competition law — from the binding withdrawal treaty into the aspirational political declaration.

Illumina and Pacific Biosciences’ internal documents “shed light” on the UK competition regulator’s in-depth probe and allowed it to discern a “clear and consistent picture” of the competitive impact, the authority has said in provisional findings.

Northern Ireland could lose out on parts of future UK trade deals, including a planned agreement with the US, should Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal win approval from lawmakers.

The UK government’s approval of Heathrow Airport’s planned expansion was wrongly cleared by judges of breaching state-aid and antitrust rules, project bidder Heathrow Hub will tell the UK's appeal court on Wednesday 23 October.

Facebook’s access to data through interfaces such as Login and Social Plugins is in the sights of EU antitrust enforcers in fresh questionnaires probing the impact of the company’s “Marketplace” on classified ad businesses, MLex has learned.

The scrutiny signals the European Commission’s growing interest in the new digital frontiers of payment technologies after it started taking a closer look at Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency earlier this year.

Carmakers’ incentives to keep vehicle data to themselves and not share them fairly with repairers and companies offering new services such as navigation should prompt scrutiny from EU antitrust authorities, a consumer group has said.

Ecolab and Holchem's merger block by the UK competition regulator has exposed frictions over its use of customer surveys.

Icelandic political parties’ use of personal data from social-media platforms such as Facebook has come under scrutiny by the country’s data-protection authority, the agency’s head said in an interview.

Google's recent defeat in the "Safari workaround" case is unlikely to open the floodgates for a rush of similar mass UK damages lawsuits, but should still provide a roadmap for claimants — something companies accused of breaching privacy rules would do well to note.

Was British Airways' cybersecurity so lax that it should be held responsible for its big data breach last year? That's the fundamental case that lawyers for the swelling class of thousands of victims must make to win compensation for them.

The case of an Airbus unit embroiled in a UK corruption probe for seven years is to be raised by a global antibribery standards body pressing for it to be resolved, MLex has learned.

EU's Google Shopping decision taught lessons and influenced behavior, says company lawyer

Boris Johnson came to power after convincing Conservative Party members that, Houdini-like, he could slip off the shackles that bound his predecessor and leap free from the EU on Oct. 31, deal or no deal.

While the UK prime minister's comprehensive Supreme Court defeat over Parliament's suspension is occupying today's headlines, it is worth looking beyond them at the unflattering light the case shines on the drive to ready legislation needed for Brexit.

Google has scored two major victories at the EU’s highest court as judges narrowed the scope of Internet users’ right to be forgotten, rejecting calls to impose the right globally and to make the delisting of sensitive personal data automatic.