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Financial Crime
June 11, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Trade
June 11, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker and Bradley Dress
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Technology
June 11, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Antitrust View More
June 12, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority has postponed its decision on the Superintendence’s closing of an administrative inquiry of Google News following a request for review by Councilor Diogo Thomson de Andrade.... (more story)
June 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google asked a California federal judge to dismiss Yelp's tying claims in its amended complaint. "The Court dismissed Yelp’s original tying claims because they were deficient and untimely on thei... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Top US meatpackers and agriculture industry data broker Agri Stats are seeking removal of US District Judge John Tunheim from a long-running pork price-fixing case that has seen its prior June 2 trial date pus... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 11, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Hollywood is joining the copyright battle against generative artificial intelligence, with Disney and Universal suing image generator Midjourney, calling it "a bottomless pit of plagiarism.” Midjourney provide... (more story)
June 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: OpenAI and Chief Executive Sam Altman included in a court filing a letter from the California attorney general stating that the office won't reconsider its decision to not join Elon Musk's suit o... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Madeline Hughes and Emma Whitford
Asia,North America
Helping to launch the Cross-Border Privacy Rules earlier this month is part of the US’s strategy to strengthen international data transfers as the country aims to lead in artificial intelligence innovation, De... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 12, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Allianz Group’s bid to acquire RAA Insurance Holdings and its subsidiary RAA Insurance Limited, known together as RAAI, from the Royal Automobile Association of South Australia Incorporated, or R... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Chris May, Alex Wilts, Ilana Kowarski and Clayton Vickers
Asia, North America, Oceania
Revelations about a US Federal Trade Commission probe into whether conservative publishers were targeted by illegal group boycotts from advertisers has upped the ante for an industry already facing state and c... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority ruled today that Cooperativa Agroindustrial Copagril and Cia Paraná de Alimentos should have notified the authority of the sale of supermarket assets before closing their tr... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 12, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Business groups are urging northeastern states to rally around a single framework for data privacy, calling it the “New England model.” But lawmakers in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont aren’t buying it, inste... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Hoa Dinh
Asia
The latest draft of Vietnam’s personal data-protection law proposes fines of up to 5 percent of annual revenue for cross-border data-transfer violations. It also removes the strict 72-hour deadline to handle d... (more story)
June 12, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian Supreme Court has begun issuing its first decisions in a pair of landmark cases that could define the legal responsibilities of digital platforms for third-party content under Article 19 of Brazi... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 11, 2025 | Nick Robertson
Asia, North America
While some Republicans applauded the State Department’s promise last month to “aggressively retract” student visas from some Chinese citizens who study in the US, President Trump said today that visas are part... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found yesterday that litigation over “SUMMER WAVES” was wrongly dismissed by a Georgia federal judge, in view of evidence British Virgin Islands-based defendant... (more story)
June 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US-based marketing, licensing and enforcement activities of Polygroup Macau, a British Virgin Islands-based multinational, should have been enough for a Georgia federal judge to exercise juri... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 11, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The sister of a former analyst at global asset manager Janus Henderson executed trades without knowing that her brother was feeding her with inside information, a London jury was told today. A barrister repres... (more story)
June 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has updated its list of jurisdictions identified as high-risk for money laundering and financial crime. Transactions involving the countries on this list require enhanced ... (more story)
June 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Aliaksandr Klimenka has failed to get a federal judge to dismiss allegations by federal prosecutors that Klimenka helped operate the BTC-e cryptocurrency platform, which allegedly laundered billi... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 11, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European Commission is expected to present a package proposal as part of its Savings and Investments plan on Dec. 10, according to a draft agenda seen by MLex. The package will aim to improve EU market int... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Ensuring the stability of the financial system is “the most important thing” financial regulators can do for growth, a senior Bank of England official said today. Countering months of government and industry p... (more story)
June 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority has advised national responsible authorities not to impose dual authorization requirements — under the EU laws on payment services and crypto-assets — for Crypto-As... (more story)
Trade View More
June 11, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
A US Court of International Trade judge has been confirmed to serve as the deputy secretary of Agriculture in the Trump administration.
June 11, 2025 | Zack Budryk and Bradley Dress
Asia, Europe, North America
A provision of the sweeping Republican spending and tax cut bill that would tax investments by foreign-owned firms is dividing the Senate GOP caucus, potentially putting its inclusion in the final package at risk.
June 11, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
The White House clarified today that the tariff rate on Chinese goods is 55 percent, following a post from President Donald Trump on the latest deal struck in London that had sparked some confusion.
State Aid View More
June 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The transfer of public land free of charge to Norwegian property developer Masserud Utvikling — due to the municipality’s failure to enforce its claim under the sale agreement — amounts to unlawf... (more story)
June 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU heads of state and governments will return to the issue of competitiveness at the European Council meeting of June 26 and 27, according to an outline for the final statement. The leaders are e... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Lewis Crofts, Joanna Sopinska and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and the Czech government have signed a deal to provide nuclear reactors at the Dukovany power plant less than a month after the European Commission warned such a move would breach a... (more story)
Energy View More
June 11, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
If power generator Constellation Energy is allowed to buy rival Calpine Corporation, electricity rates are likely to surge, Illinois’ Office of the Attorney General asserted in a memo to the US Federal Energy ... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Technology company Global-365's lawsuit over alleged dominance abuse in the pre-pay energy market is flawed, UK payment services company PayPoint told a UK judge today. Global-365 said it was stymied in its pl... (more story)
June 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A "high-level implementation dialogue" on permit-granting procedures for renewable energy projects and related infrastructure was held today by the European Commission. The discussion, hosted by ... (more story)
Technology View More
June 11, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Tech companies and Internet service providers will take part in workshop this month on strategies for possible legislation on the retention of metadata for law-enforcement purposes, MLex has learned. The works... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission has set a provisional date of Dec. 10 for the publication a digital package, including a so-called omnibus that will propose amendments to legislation, potentially addressing landmark l... (more story)
June 11, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Matthew Newman
Europe
TikTok, Instagram and X could be forced to block users under the age of 15 in France unless European legislation moves forward “in the next few months,” the French President said yesterday. Emmanuel Macron sai... (more story)