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US Assistant Attorney General nominee Abigail Slater.

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

July 15, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

North America

US DOJ, FCC approve T-Mobile-UScellular deal despite red flags
City of London skyline

Financial Services

July 15, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

UK bank ring-fencing regime to be reformed but not scrapped, government says

Antitrust, Technology

July 14, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

Media Matters says FTC probe should be blocked by US judge

Antitrust View More

South Korea's CJ Group fined for covert support to troubled subsidiaries

July 16, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Asia

CJ Group has been tentatively fined 6.5 billion won (about $4.7 million) by South Korea’s competition watchdog for unfairly supporting two financially distressed subsidiaries through what it described as disgu... (more story)

Australian regulators examine the future of cash distribution in 'evolving' landscape

July 16, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: The regulation of cash distribution in Australia is the focus of a new consultation by the country’s umbrella group of financial regulators and the antitrust watchdog. In a consultation paper pub... (more story)

CJ Group sanctioned by South Korean regulator over disguised credit guarantees to affiliates

July 16, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: CJ Group has been tentatively fined 6.5 billion won (about $4.7 million)  by South Korea’s antitrust regulator for unfairly supporting two financially distressed affiliates through disguised cred... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Change privacy laws to allow FRT in stores, Bunnings urges Australian government

July 16, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Oceania

Australian hardware giant Bunnings Group says the trial of facial recognition technology by New Zealand’s Foodstuffs North Island highlights that, with the right privacy safeguards, the tools can be deployed l... (more story)

South Korea moving fast to build industrial sites addressing AI, clean-energy issues

July 16, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said today that it aims to adopt a special law and formulate detailed plans within this year to support the development of industrial complexe... (more story)

Clearview AI faces 2027 privacy jury trial in California

July 16, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

Clearview AI and a group of California law enforcement agencies that allegedly used the controversial facial-recognition company's services face a March 2027 trial date to defend claims they violated the priva... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Norcros-Fibo deal to see UK antitrust review

July 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Norcros Industry’s planned acquisition of waterproof wall-coverings company Fibo is to be reviewed by the UK antitrust regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority is seeking comments from in... (more story)

ByteDance, Oracle sued for alleged market allocation, bid rigging by US investors

July 16, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

ByteDance is accused of colluding with Oracle to block legitimate acquisition offers for TikTok's US operations and effectively allocating the short video social media market between itself and Oracle, accordi... (more story)

Constellation deal critics tell US FERC monitor’s settlement is inadequate

July 15, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

A partial settlement between Constellation Energy and Monitoring Analytics — the independent market monitor that oversees electricity flow within the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest — hasn’t completely fixed every an... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

South Korean regulator holds cloud-privacy roundtable with major providers

July 16, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: To improve the effectiveness of oversight in cloud-based personal data processing, South Korea’s privacy regulator proposed that major cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azur... (more story)

Arkansas, Idaho urge US judge to reconsider jury-trial right ruling for adtech case

July 16, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The states of Arkansas and Idaho filed a reply in support of their motion asking a US judge to reconsider his ruling that they don't seek civil penalties in their sovereign capacity in US antitru... (more story)

Tornado Cash co-founder ran cryptocurrency mixer as 'a washing machine,' US says

July 15, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm knew his cryptocurrency mixer was being used by criminals to launder their dirty money, prosecutors said today at the start of his US trial, while the defense said he had no... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

USPTO would get $400 million boost in FY26 budget proposal

July 15, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

The first version of the 2026 fiscal year budget for the Department of Commerce includes a 10 percent increase in funds for the US Patent and Trademark Office — over $400 million — and highlights new initiativ... (more story)

Preliminary injunction issued against Shanghai firm in Aesculap patent dispute at UPC

July 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court has granted Aesculap AG a preliminary injunction against Shanghai International Holding Corp. over alleged infringement of its surgical drill bit patent, EP 2,892,442. Th... (more story)

OpenAI says book authors have failed to allege infringing outputs to carry US copyright claim

July 15, 2025

North America

MLex summary: OpenAI has filed a motion to dismiss a direct copyright infringement claim in book authors' consolidated proposed class action in New York federal court, saying the plaintiffs have failed to adeq... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

US lawmaker introduces bill to fight illicit activity in decentralized finance

July 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US Representative Sean Casten of Illinois introduced the Compliant Operations of Decentralized Entities (CODE) Act of 2025, legislation aimed at combating illicit activity and address cybersecuri... (more story)

Interactive Brokers fined $11.8 million by US OFAC for sanctions violations

July 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced an $11.8 million settlement with Interactive Brokers for apparent violations of several OFAC sanctions programs that... (more story)

US SEC drops civil bribery suit against former Cognizant executives

July 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed its civil bribery lawsuit against Gordon Coburn and Steven Schwartz, former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions, months after federal ... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US FDIC proposes return to first Trump administration’s reviews of bank exam ratings

July 15, 2025 | Neil Roland

North America

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation today approved a proposal to handle appeals of material supervisory determinations through an "an independent, standalone office."

Stablecoins no substitute for commercial bank money, BOE’s Bailey says

July 15, 2025 | Phoebe Seers

Europe

Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England’s governor has issued arguably his strongest warning yet against stablecoins, in a key speech before the financial services industry. Bailey said this evening: “there may wel... (more story)

BOE’s Bailey says IMF, WTO should do more to tackle trade imbalances

July 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, is set to outline proposals to strengthen the role of the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization to tackle global trade i... (more story)

Trade View More

Trump finalizes US trade deal with Indonesia

July 15, 2025

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: President Trump announced that the US and Indonesia have finalized a trade deal which opens up Indonesia's entire market to US producers and exporters. Indonesia committed to buying $15 billion i... (more story)

EU clings to pre-letter tariff terms as basis for further talks with US

July 15, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska and Jean Comte

Europe

The EU is striving to avert the 30 percent universal tariff on its exports threatened by US President Trump, aiming instead to base further negotiations on a limited, unwritten tariff arrangement discussed pri... (more story)

US Commerce opens Section 232 probe into polysilicon imports

July 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Commerce department today confirmed it has initiated an investigation of polysilicon imports’ effect on US national security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The depar... (more story)

State Aid View More

Forest owners in southeastern France can have state aid to prevent wildfires

July 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Companies owning forests in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France — as well as the access roads to such forests — will be eligible for direct grants, under a 40 million-eur... (more story)

La Poste can have EUR531 million in French compensation, EU watchdog says

July 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: France has secured European Commission approval for its plan to grant up to 531 million euros (around $620 million) to La Poste, to compensate the postal operator for the costs incurred in carryi... (more story)

General Block Exemption Regulation for state aid open for input in EU

July 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback as part of its efforts to further update the General Block Exemption Regulation for state aid. The GBER allows EU countries to implement certain measur... (more story)

Energy View More

EU lawmakers agree to accelerated timeline for position on 2040 climate targets

July 15, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

Lawmakers coordinating the European Parliament’s environmental committee agreed today on a tight internal timeline for adopting a position on 2040 climate targets ahead of COP30. Aug. 9 is the new deadline to ... (more story)

Slovakia blocks deal on 18th EU sanctions package against Russia

July 15, 2025 | Helena Freitas

Europe

EU countries failed to reach an agreement today on the 18th sanctions package against Russia, the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said. Slovakia blocked the agreement today requesting to be allowed to ... (more story)

EU’s ban on Russian gas imports should be moved up by one year, lawmakers say

July 15, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

The EU should ban long-term contracts for oil and gas from Russia by January 2027, one year earlier than proposed by the European Commission, leading EU lawmakers said in a report published today. To streamlin... (more story)

Technology View More

EU plan to deregulate telecom markets needs justification, Danish official says

July 15, 2025 | Matthew Newman

Europe

The European Commission needs to show that there is a need to deregulate the telecom market as it considers a new telecom package that will be presented by the end of the year, a Danish official said. A group ... (more story)

Digital support service for online safety compliance to be created in UK

July 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Media, telecoms and online platforms regulated by UK watchdog Ofcom can expect a stronger focus on how its rules and guidelines will support innovation and growth in the next financial year. In i... (more story)

Platforms told to expect further UK online safety proposals; US scrutiny intensifies

July 15, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Online platforms have been told to expect more UK regulation to protect children online, with a focus on addictive design and healthier online habits. But it remains to be seen whether the British government i... (more story)