Competiton Law

Insights from the Review of eCommerce Legislation Final Report

The Review of eCommerce Legislation Final Report (Laporan Akhir Kajian Semakan Semula Perundangan eDagang) (‘the report’) represents a major national effort to modernise, refresh and renew the legal and regulatory framework for online commerce in Malaysia. Led by the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living (‘KPDN’) with input from over 90 stakeholders, the report provides a comprehensive evaluation of existing eCommerce laws, identifies key enforcement and consumer protection gaps, and sets out a structured plan for reform.

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Unfair Trade Practices and Monopolistic Acts in Digital Platforms

The rapid growth of digital markets, especially in e-commerce and multi-sided platform business, has raised significant concerns about unfair trade practices and monopolistic acts.

On 19 August 2025, the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand released the Draft Guidelines for Considering Unfair Trade Practices and Monopolistic Acts in Multi-Sided Platform Business, Digital Services, and E-Commerce to address these issues. The Draft Guideline establishes four principles and identifies two main categories of potentially anti-competitive conduct and unfair trade practices.

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Artificial Intelligence Governance in Focus: Malaysia’s National Guidelines on AI Governance and Ethics vs the European Union’s AI Act

Malaysia’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation adopted the National Guidelines on AI Governance and Ethics. The launch of which is a key step in supporting the Malaysian National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025.

AIGE reinforces Malaysia’s commitment to global AI ethics inspired by guidelines from UNESCO, OECD, and the EU, to ensure trusted and responsible AI development. Following this, AIGE set out seven core principles consisting of fairness, safety, privacy, inclusiveness, transparency, accountability, and the pursuit of human benefit.

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Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Expands Specified Exchange List

On 23 June 2025, Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad (BMD) released the Trading Participants Circular 12/2025, announcing updates to Directive No. 6.25(1)-001. This directive outlines the list of foreign exchanges that Malaysian derivatives Trading Participants are permitted to access, in line with Rule 6.25(1)(b) of the BMD Rules.

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Enhancing Market Fairness:  The need of a Merger Control Regime in Malaysia

In Malaysia, competition law is governed by the Competition Act 2010 (‘the CA 2010’). The Malaysia Competition Commission (‘MyCC’), established under CA 2010, aims to protect the competitive process for the betterment of Malaysian businesses and economy.

Malaysia’s competition law prohibits two main types of anti-competitive activity.

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Case Study: Grab and the Competition Act 2010​

By Bryan Boo Recently, the Malaysia Competition Commission (“MyCC“) proposed to fine Grab RM 86 million for abusive practices infringing section 10 of the Competition Act 2010 (“the Act”). The grounds of this proposal is that Grab…

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