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Data Privacy and Security
July 17, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America

Financial Crime, Financial Services, Trade
July 16, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America

Technology
July 16, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Antitrust View More
July 18, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Biden-era settlements with ExxonMobil and Chevron Corp. were rendered null and void by the Federal Trade Commission’s three Republicans today via orders that castigated those merger antitrust consent decrees a... (more story)
July 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Former US Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said an order by a District of Columbia judge finding that fellow FTC commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter's removal from the agency was unlawfu... (more story)
July 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission reopened and set aside the final orders in the matters of Chevron-Hess and Exxon-Pioneer, the agency announced. Both final consent orders, which prohibited Chevron... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 17, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
US District Judge William Alsup has certified the first class action among dozens of lawsuits accusing artificial intelligence companies of copyright infringement, cuing up what he described as a “Napster-styl... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Reliance on artificial intelligence to carry out increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks is on the rise. Findings by a US judge that voice cloning is nonactionable under current federal trademark and copyright... (more story)
July 17, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US District Judge William Alsup partially granted a motion for class certification in copyright litigation against Anthropic. A "pirated books" class will include all "beneficial or legal copyrig... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 17, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
A proposed amendment to a network-sharing agreement between TIM and Telefônica is raising red flags at Brazil’s competition authority due to the unclear scope of municipalities involved. While the companies ar... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Synopsys announced today it has completed its $35 billion acquisition of Ansys. The transaction, announced Jan. 16, 2024, "combines leaders in silicon design, IP and simulation and analysis to en... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Fanny Roux and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
The European Commission wants the Spanish government to drop “public interest” conditions imposed on BBVA’s bid for Banco Sabadell, which has drawn ire from national politicians. After standing up for UniCredi... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 18, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Meta Platforms faced doubts from a US federal judge over the relevance of evidence concerning former employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen in defending against allegations that its social media apps contri... (more story)
July 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter welcomed a US court's order finding that her removal from the agency by US President Donald Trump was unlawful, and said that the for-cause ... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
An FBI agent specializing in cybercrime investigations traced the flow of more than $1 billion stolen in hacking incidents to the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer during the US trial today of co-founder Roman... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 18, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Global fashion giant Prada found itself in the clear, at least for now, as an Indian court rejected public interest litigation concerning its "toe ring sandals," highlighting the crucial need for evidence in s... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
A group of Dutch news media outlets has formed the country's first national collective database to be licensed for training artificial intelligence, a move which aims to avoid them having to sue AI companies f... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court has upheld a lower court ruling that exhibit panels and narrated scripts used in a city-run literary museum qualify as employer-owned works under the country’s work-for... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 17, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
The GENIUS Act, which passed the US House today following passage in the Senate last month, would let private companies issue stablecoins — a prospect that has alarmed some Democratic lawmakers who fear it wou... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: Transparency International Brazil, the Brazilian chapter of the anti-corruption organization, expressed concerns that anti-corruption setbacks in Brazil are being used to justify "politically and... (more story)
July 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit threw out former HSBC senior foreign exchange trader Mark Johnson's fraud conviction, finding that the government's case under a theory of misapprop... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Buy now, pay later lenders in the UK will be required to conduct affordability checks on potential customers, and offer support if they get into financial difficulties, under a proposed regulator... (more story)
July 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The American Banker's Association released a statement following the passage of the GENIUS Act, saying that stablecoins "continue to risk disintermediating core bank activity like deposit taking ... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr’s pleas to keep tight bank regulation to stave off economic crisis are sure to be disregarded by his Fed colleagues. In a speech yesterday, the Fed’s bank regulator und... (more story)
Trade View More
July 17, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
The Trump administration today petitioned the Supreme Court to hold off on reviewing a challenge by two educational toy manufacturers to President Donald Trump’s authority to issue tariffs under the Internatio... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
A US solar energy trade group has petitioned the US International Trade Commission to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on Indian, Indonesian and Laotian crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells.
July 17, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission has determined that subsidized Chinese imports of low-speed personal transportation vehicles materially injure the US industry. The vote was unanimous, with ... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 16, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Jean Comte
Europe
EU powers to block bidders backed by foreign subsidies from distorting public tenders have triggered a surge in workload, but the quality of the submissions and awareness of the rules is unsatisfactory, the Eu... (more story)
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)
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)
Energy View More
July 17, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Environmental groups criticized the EU's plans for climate and environmental spending in its draft 2028 to 2036 budget today, saying they represented a cut from the previous multi-annual funding plan and put e... (more story)
July 17, 2025 | Patrick Hatzis
Asia, Europe
The EU’s tough stance on Chinese EV manufacturers through tariffs and anti-subsidy investigations could undermine its climate goals by restricting access to affordable electric vehicles that are crucial for de... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nine EU member states must appoint an authority responsible for monitoring and enforcing the application of the EU rules on methane emissions, the commission said today. They must also notify the... (more story)
Technology View More
July 17, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Google won't face off next month against a coalition of Texas-led states accusing it of monopolizing digital adtech markets as a US federal judge today postponed a month-long trial until a judge in Virginia ru... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s digital laws should be simpler, and companies need more time for implementing them, industry group BusinessEurope said today. It asks for multiple grace periods, particularly for the AI ... (more story)
July 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today said it had opened applications from experts, including from civil society, academia, industry, SMEs, and start-ups, to join its Advisory Forum of the AI Act. The de... (more story)