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Trade
December 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
Artificial Intelligence
December 12, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 11, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust View More
December 15, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Meta Platforms must explain to enforcers why it opened up WhatsApp to companies large and small a few years ago, only to now expel other companies' AI chatbots that compete with its own Meta AI service. Regula... (more story)
December 15, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi and Lewis Crofts
Europe
The EU's powerful law against digital gatekeepers could clamp down on bottlenecks in the access to data and infrastructure needed to power AI technology, but there are enforcement gaps and tricky questions aro... (more story)
December 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Battery makers Exide, FET and Rombat, as well as the trade association Eurobat, must pay a total of €72 million for cartel conduct on the market for automotive starter batteries. Another company,... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The vast majority of respondents to a UK consultation on copyright and the training of AI models want to strengthen the copyright regime and require licensing in all cases, while a tiny minority ... (more story)
December 15, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
European governments are being asked to take an initial position on the European Commission’s proposal to delay key AI Act duties. Questions before the member states involve the act's overall approach, the pro... (more story)
December 15, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea’s Presidential Council on National Artificial Intelligence Strategy has released a draft national AI action plan outlining 98 tasks across 12 strategic areas to help the country catch up with globa... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 15, 2025
Europe, Middle East
MLex Summary: An EU decision to clear the acquisition by Emirati company e& of PPF telecom’s activities shows the European Commission wrapped up a probe into the role of foreign subsidies and resolved competit... (more story)
December 15, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Universal Music Group has proposed to address EU objections to its Downtown takeover by offering to sell the music services company’s royalties-collection platform Curve, MLex has learned. The world’s largest ... (more story)
December 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's competition authority has cleared plans to broaden an existing joint venture between Rheinmetall Landsysteme and KNDS. Both companies already jointly operate PSM Projekt System & Manage... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 15, 2025 | Júlia Tar and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU cybersecurity rules governing the bloc’s certification framework require a fundamental reset, seven member states said, warning that the Cybersecurity Act has produced only one framework in six years and is... (more story)
December 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Access to information about a deceased child’s online activity is the focus of new UK draft guidance setting out how platforms should handle requests from bereaved parents, including disclosure p... (more story)
December 15, 2025 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
Askul, a Japanese office-supply retailer affiliated with the internet company LY Corp., said Friday that recent cyberattacks on its systems compromised the personal data of nearly 740,000 people, most of them ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 15, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
MAS Maschinen, an Austrian plastic machinery company, has won a UPC ruling finding that its rival Altech’s machines infringe its patent. MAS secured an injunction across 10 countries, though judges held that i... (more story)
December 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Music publishers are renewing a request to question Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei, saying testimony from other witnesses shows that he has unique, first-hand knowledge of the copyright i... (more story)
December 12, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti
North America
There is no shortage of interest in an ongoing clash between Ross Intelligence and Thomson Reuters in what could yield the first US appellate ruling on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an arti... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 15, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Auditing firm EY faces an investigation into its work for oil giant Shell, the UK’s financial reporting regulator has said. The probe is the latest in a string of questions the Big Four auditor has faced in th... (more story)
December 12, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A federal jury in Brooklyn, New York convicted a Florida businessman on Friday on charges stemming from his role as the leader of an organization that laundered more than $300 million on behalf of drug traffickers and others.
December 12, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Alain Bibliowicz Mitrani, a resident of Miami, Florida and a citizen of France and Colombia, was convicted on five counts of a superseding indictment charging him with money laundering conspiracy... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Plans for boosting transparency in exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives have been finalized and passed to the European Commission to endorse within three months ahead of their expecte... (more story)
December 15, 2025
Europe
MLex summary: The European Commission has opened an eight-week consultation on plans to strengthen the bloc's capital markets by "removing regulatory, supervisory and operational barriers". The proposals inclu... (more story)
December 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU countries’ stance on a revamped securitization framework has been published. The reform, aimed at boosting the bloc’s securitization market, consists of a review of the prudential rules fo... (more story)
Trade View More
December 15, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet and Oscar Pandiello
Asia, Europe
The EU is aiming to sign a new trade agreement with India in January, creating deeper links between the world's largest trade bloc and its most populous country. But behind the headlines, the details of the de... (more story)
December 15, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Indonesia is set to sign a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union as it seeks to expand market access and strengthen economic cooperation with the region, Trade Minister Budi Santo... (more story)
December 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs said on Friday that beginning Jan. 1, 2026, 300 designated steel products will be added to the export-license catalog, marki... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark has won EU approval for up to €77 million in compensation to Post Danmark for additional costs linked to making 429 former civil servants, currently still employed under special terms, re... (more story)
December 15, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has secured approval to spend €408 million in state aid to back the decarbonization of its manufacturing industry, in line with the EU's clean industrial deal goals. The plan is meant to su... (more story)
December 12, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Austria investing in additional manufacturing capacity for net-zero technologies as well as their components will be eligible for direct grants under a €100 million plan that has won... (more story)
Energy View More
December 15, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Data handlers in China’s energy sector, including energy enterprises and industry associations, are bracing for a wave of data-security obligations with the introduction of new measures issued by the country’s... (more story)
December 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s National Energy Administration has introduced management measures designed to standardize data processing activities across the energy sector while bolstering data security and mitigating... (more story)
December 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened an infringement procedure against Belgium, accusing it of circumventing state aid rule procedures. The country had recognized arbitration awards that would obli... (more story)
Technology View More
December 15, 2025 | Roffie Kuniawan
Asia
Social media giant X has paid an administrative fine of about 80 million rupiah ($4,800) over content moderation violations in Indonesia, marking the first time the country’s Ministry of Communication and Digi... (more story)
December 15, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Malaysia’s communications regulator on Monday said major internet messaging and social-media platforms will be deemed registered under the country’s licensing regime from Jan. 1, 2026, bringing l... (more story)
December 15, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK cryptoasset firms will face full financial regulation from 2027 under final legislation to be released by the government on Monday. They will be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the same way ... (more story)