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Trade
April 15, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
North America
Antitrust, Technology
April 14, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Khushita Vasant
North America
Financial Crime
April 14, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
April 15, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Inventors Defense Alliance policy chief Kristen Osenga told MLex she shares a key antitrust enforcer’s skepticism of standards unaccompanied by a commitment to license essential patents on fair, reasonable and... (more story)
April 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Maryland’s recently passed Protection from Predatory Pricing Act has loopholes that undercut its ban on surveillance pricing, Consumer Reports said in a statement. The organization urged other st... (more story)
April 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Fired US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter released testimony prepared to be delivered before a Senate hearing on oversight of the agency, saying the FTC "has become a shell of its for... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 15, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether personalized pricing is happening and if it is an unfair and deceptive business practice, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Wednesday.
April 15, 2026
North America
MLex summary: US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein declined to dismiss record labels' claim that AI music company Udio circumvented technological measures in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act... (more story)
April 15, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
A proposal to expose senior tech executives to criminal liability where their companies fail to to remove non-consensual intimate images has been backed by UK lawmakers, along with introduction of a 48-hour ta... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 15, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
The proposed merger between offshore engineering giants Saipem and Subsea7 has been declared ‘complex’ by the Brazilian competition authority and will get an in-depth analysis of its competitive effects in the... (more story)
April 15, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil’s competition authority is reviewing under its full-form procedure the proposed incorporation of CBO into OceanPact, resulting in a combined publicly listed company. Upon completion, CBO would be exting... (more story)
April 15, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst, Andrew Boyce and Lewis Crofts
Europe
UPM and Sappi are facing an in-depth EU inquiry into their plans to merge their graphic paper businesses, MLex has learned.
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 15, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Ireland’s media regulator is developing a framework to assess online platforms’ compliance with age verification duties under its Online Safety Code and the EU’s Digital Services Act. The initiative, announced... (more story)
April 15, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Online platforms on Wednesday saw the European Commission positioning its age-verification app as a key tool to protect children online, but major questions remain. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sa... (more story)
April 15, 2026 | Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Germany has said that the European Commission's plans to overhaul how users grant consent for cookies risks giving US-based tech companies with popular web browsers more access to data and harming European med... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 15, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
The UK authority for atomic energy is aiming to commercialize intellectual property developed as part of the country’s development of fusion power. The UK Atomic Energy Authority, or UKAEA, strategy says it pl... (more story)
April 14, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: OpenAI should not be allowed to minimize its wrongdoing and recast a former xAI employee’s disclosure of trade secrets during an interview as “simply asking a candidate about prior work experienc... (more story)
April 14, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The EU is treating intellectual property as a strategic economic and security asset, citing risks stemming from technological dependencies. Maria Martin-Prat of the European Commission’s trade department warns... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 15, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: In a post on X, the US Treasury Department said its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network office issued an amended order that will allow Mexican lender CiBanco to be liquidated. The bank was cut o... (more story)
April 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The criminal convictions of three people who used insider information on a proposed takeover bid by Air Liquide Group for US listed company Airgas have been welcomed by France's Autorité des Marc... (more story)
April 15, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The UK’s sanctions enforcer said that 90 percent of enforcement cases will be ready for action within 18 months of them starting, as it set out its plans for the next three years. The government agency, which ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 15, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK prudential watchdog must be a “thought leader” on how financial regulation supports growth while maintaining stability, incoming chief Katharine Braddick has said in outlining her ambitions to lawmakers... (more story)
April 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK cryptoasset firms, stablecoin issuers, and traditional finance firms have been asked to provide feedback over the next seven weeks on the financial regulator's planned guidance for the rules ... (more story)
April 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority is seeking feedback on proposals to shorten 13 sets of guidelines under the key EU law framework for insurers, Solvency II, as part of e... (more story)
Trade View More
April 15, 2026 | Louis de Briant and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission plans to tax electricity below fossil fuels and allow zero tax rates for energy-intensive industries, according to an internal document. The draft also points to stronger use of EU emis... (more story)
April 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security announced an administrative enforcement settlement with Rocklin, California-based Coastal PVA Technology to resolve allegations that i... (more story)
April 15, 2026
Asia, Europe, North America
MLex summary: The US Commerce Department finalized antidumping and antisubsidy duties for silicon metal imports from Laos and Angola. Commerce applied a 69.10 percent antisubsidy rate for imports from Laos and... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 15, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s State Council said in a reform guideline issued Wednesday that authorities may impose temporary controls on investment approvals, subject to State Council consent, in sectors facing disor... (more story)
April 14, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Asia, Europe
Nuctech warned against EU meddling in corporate freedom to structure IT systems, telling judges that European Commission demands to access data in China went too far. In a hearing before the EU courts, lawyers... (more story)
April 14, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Asia, Europe
Security scanner company Nuctech told judges on Tuesday that EU officials had forced it to hand over digital information "under duress," even though it risked breaking China's data security law. The EU court i... (more story)
Energy View More
April 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A key European Parliament committee has proposed changes to the extension of the EU Emissions Trading System that would accelerate allowance releases during price spikes, extend the €45 cap beyon... (more story)
April 15, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
The EU emissions trading system is no longer seen as a climate-only tool amid the current energy crisis but increasingly as part of a broader shift toward European autonomy and competitiveness, the head of the... (more story)
April 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Proposed changes to the EU’s carbon border levy, or CBAM, would scrap a broad emergency exemption for goods covered by the instrument. The draft report, presented by center-left lawmaker Mohammed... (more story)
Technology View More
April 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren and four other Democrats urged US Judge Arun Subramanian of the Southern District of New York to use his authority under the Tunney Act to closely scru... (more story)
April 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The Federal Trade Commission "will not stand in the way of benign transactions," and is willing to settle merger cases, according to testimony posted on the agency's website. FTC Chairman Andrew ... (more story)
April 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta and Google have been accused by a European Parliament member of breaching the EU's Digital Services Act, a content-moderation law, by allowing "misleading and dangerous medical advertising."... (more story)