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Antitrust
August 13, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Data Privacy and Security
August 12, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Technology
August 12, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
August 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A company active in the trade of Madeira bananas has been fined by the Portuguese competition authority, for abusing its dominant position in the market for the collection, distribution and sale ... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Ju Biung-ghi, an economics professor at Seoul National University, has been nominated as chairman of the Korea Fair Trade Commission, the South Korean Presidential Office said. Ju, 56, focused hi... (more story)
August 13, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Seek, an Australian job-seeking website, moved to kick employment-operating software business Employment Hero off its platform when joint-venture negotiations suggested the two companies could end up in compet... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
August 13, 2025 | Dalila Abu Bakar
Asia
Malaysia’s new cloud computing policy aims to overhaul how the public sector delivers services, reshape digital access for citizens and equip small businesses with scalable technologies, with the goal of posit... (more story)
August 13, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea’s de facto presidential transition team announced a five-year blueprint to make the country a top three AI powerhouse and lead in future strategic industries. The plan includes securing GPUs, datas... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The de facto transition team for South Korea’s new president today unveiled 123 national policy goals to pursue over the next five years, including plans to spur artificial intelligence, biotechn... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
August 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: TPG's plan to buy a stake of below 25 percent in metering specialist Techem is not subject to merger-control review in Germany, the Federal Cartel Office said today. The watchdog looked into whet... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The move by Australia’s Ellerslie Free Range Farms to acquire 70 percent of the LPC Group, along with specified property, plans, equipment and vehicles used by the LPC Group, has been cleared by ... (more story)
August 13, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Greater flexibility for the deal-value threshold is warranted to protect small Indian companies from global tech giants. A parliamentary committee report warned that the current fixed threshold of $240 million... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
August 13, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of State has sharply criticized the UK over what it sees as setbacks in human rights and privacy, claiming that the UK Online Safety Act grants regulator Ofcom broad powers over... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Malaysia today unveiled its first National Cloud Computing Policy, a “whole-of-nation” strategy to accelerate digital transformation through a sovereign, secure, inclusive and sustainable cloud e... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: US chipmaker Micron is pulling out of the global mobile NAND-memory market amid challenging financial performance and decelerating growth, a spokesperson said in a written statement to MLex. The ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
August 13, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The UPC ruled that a patent upheld in amended form cannot support an infringement claim if not asserted, highlighting the strategic risk patentees face when narrowing claims during litigation.
August 13, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s IP High Court rejected copyright and unfair competition claims over a handcrafted mechanical pencil, finding the design lacked artistic individuality and consumer recognition required for protection.
August 13, 2025 | MLex Staff
North America
US design-software specialist Figma has reached a global settlement with Singapore-based rival Motiff, resolving intellectual property disputes between them, the two companies announced on Wednesday.
Financial Crime View More
August 12, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Do Kwon, cofounder and former chief executive officer of Terraform Labs, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit commodities fraud, securities fraud and wire fraud, and one count of c... (more story)
August 12, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Terraform Labs cofounder Do Kwon pleaded guilty today to two fraud counts stemming from a $40 billion collapse of his decentralized financial empire, according to court records. Kwon was charged ... (more story)
August 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The use of technology tools in anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism supervision has improved data quality, enhanced collaboration, and led to more efficient risk identi... (more story)
Financial Services View More
August 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Financial Ombudsman Service plans to charge businesses less for complaints which are resolved at an earlier stage. UK financial firms currently pay a fixed fee of 650 pounds for every case... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's finance ministry has appointed three new non-executive directors to its board, including Charlie Mayfield, a former chairman at retailer John Lewis, former banker Edward Twiddy, and Jenn... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has nominated Lee Eog-weon, a former first vice finance minister and presidential economic policy secretary, as the next chair of the Financial Services Commi... (more story)
Trade View More
August 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU imports of terephthalic acid from South Korea and Mexico are being investigated, to see if the products have been dumped to the detriment of EU industry, the European Commission said today. Th... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China placed two EU banks — UAB Urbo Bankas and AB Mano Bankas — on its sanctions list as a countermeasure to EU sanctions, according to a statement released today by the Ministry of Commerce. Th... (more story)
August 13, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce announced in a preliminary ruling that imports of rape or colza seeds from Canada were being dumped in China, causing material damage to the domestic industry. The mi... (more story)
State Aid View More
August 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: SAS's dispute over state aid payments has been referred for a preliminary ruling at the Court of Justice of the EU by the Copenhagen City Court. The national judges want to know if the Scandinavi... (more story)
August 12, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission opened a public consultation on the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, the legal text that allows the executive to scrutinize — and possibly to place conditions on or veto —... (more story)
August 11, 2025 | Jean Comte and Lewis Crofts
Asia, Europe
Companies receiving foreign subsidies haven't secured much clarity on when their merger deal or public procurement awards risk being called in for review by the European Commission. The institution's draft gui... (more story)
Energy View More
August 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Union has launched the Copernicus-Sentinel-5 satellite, from a base in French Guiana, to advance global monitoring of air pollution and atmospheric gases, the European Commission sai... (more story)
August 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Commitments by four major US semitruck manufacturers to end an agreement to reduce the output of internal combustion-engine trucks protect competition while advancing President Donald Trump’s mis... (more story)
August 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sweden and Lithuania have been granted additional time to decide on cross-border electricity price risk hedging, energy regulator ACER said in a statement today. The decision concerns strategies ... (more story)
Technology View More
August 13, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Khushita Vasant
North America
American Express’s requirements for merchants that accept its credit cards raise prices for consumers and block competition for merchants, class action plaintiffs argued in their opening statement at a civil a... (more story)
August 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Apple responded to accusations by Elon Musk that it gives preferential treatment to OpenAI on its App Store, saying the store is designed to be fair and "free of bias." An Apple spokesperson said... (more story)
August 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission closed its investigation into whether several truck and engine manufacturers and their trade association violated antitrust laws by entering the “Clean Truck Partn... (more story)