On today’s podcast we interview a leading European Union lawmaker about the EU’s proposed AI Act

The European Union has new powers to police subsidies handed out by foreign governments —powers designed to ensure that state support doesn’t distort merger activity

Unsuccessful attempt to hire an American for chief economist with the European Commission’s antitrust division

Growing sense of frustration among European carmakers, as they become vocal about EU emissions policies

New rules designed to curb the European Union’s outbound investment in the name of geo-political security may prove politically fraught

On paper, the EU’s proposal to pursue a design for a digital euro should be viewed favorably by the bloc’s banks, because the model targets retail consumers.

Google is in the EU’s firing line over its ad businesses, with the bloc’s enforcer suggesting that its operations are anticompetitive

Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU has a glorious past, having been used by the bloc’s antitrust regulators to inflict real pain on Big Tech

Five years have gone by since the implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation but managers at Meta Platforms aren’t likely celebrate the milestone

The “Brexit dividend” was the assurance that the United Kingdom’s economy stood to gain from the country leaving the European Union

Microsoft has lashed out at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority over its decision to veto the software giant’s $69 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard

UK’s Competition and Markets Authority on the receiving end of a court ruling that upended its probe of Apple

EU, AI regulation is advancing swiftly, even as it gets caught up in the bloc’s complex legislative processes

European Court of Justice victory for TowerCast has reverberated around the European Union

Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank focuses world attention on the health of US-based lenders and regulatory framework.

Assa Abloy’s move to outflank a US DOJ attempt to block the acquisition of a Spectrum Brands unit.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Listen as MLex Chief Correspondent, Nicholas Hirst, interviews Tommaso Valletti about his time as the EU’s Chief Economist for Competition.

This MLex special report covers the impact, influence and uncertainties of the EU rules of GDPR and how it's reshaping data privacy around the world.

Listen to MLex Senior Energy Correspondent Laurel Henning talk with MLex Brussels Senior Managing Editor James Panichi about her November 2016 analysis "Trump's plans to abandon UN climate deal puts EU projects in doubt" and related new developments.

Listen in as MLex Chief Correspondent Telecoms Magnus Franklin and Senior Editor James Panichi discuss regulatory questions companies face as they gear up to invest millions in the technology for EU's "inflight WiFi."

In an interview with MLex, Romano Pisciotti talks of his experience at the hands of the US justice system and his time behind bars for financial crime charges.

In an exclusive interview with MLex, Margrethe Vestager talks of her political past in Denmark and of her plans as EU Commissioner for Competition.