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Artificial Intelligence
April 20, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Intellectual Property
April 20, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Trade
April 17, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
April 21, 2026
Middle East
MLex Summary: Personal care products and cosmetics company Hobi Kozmetik İmalat Sanayi and RA Pazarlama are under investigation by the Turkish competition authority to see if they fixed resale prices for their... (more story)
April 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: An investigation into whether energy companies BP, Cepsa, now operating under the Moeve brand, and Repsol had pricing agreements or abused their collective dominant position has been closed, Spai... (more story)
April 21, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australia’s Coles chose not to route Mastercard debit transactions through cheaper Eftpos network despite potential savings because its deal with Mastercard was stronger and the retailer feared retaliation, it... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 21, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s National AI Strategy Committee has created two new subcommittees on autonomous driving and humanoid robots under its push to raise the country’s competitiveness in embodied AI. The ... (more story)
April 21, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe, North America
The EU is divided over joining the US-led Pax Silica initiative, weighing access to AI chips against risks to its strategic autonomy. Concerns center on potential US export controls that could fragment the sin... (more story)
April 21, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan’s proposed amendment to its personal-information protection law finally reached parliament in early April — a pivotal moment that tests the nation’s commitment to safeguarding privacy in the AI era. The ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 21, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
National governments will have to identify “specific risks to a fundamental interest of society” if they are going to overrule EU regulators and intervene in mergers that affect banking, media or public securi... (more story)
April 21, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japanese retailer Nojima agreed with Hitachi on Tuesday to acquire a majority stake in Hitachi’s home-appliance business for 110 billion yen ($690 million), as the companies seek to combine Nojim... (more story)
April 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A UK freeze order over Société LDC's acquisition of Green Label Holdings, which prevents the companies from integrating pending a merger review, has been canceled by the competition regulator. Gr... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 21, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China urged the European Commission to give serious consideration to its comments on proposed revisions to the bloc’s Cybersecurity Act, warning of possible countermeasures if Chinese companies are treated unf... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission's newly unredacted complaint against JustAnswer LLC reveals new details about what the company allegedly knew about its own deceptive sign-up practices.
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex: After a federal judge ordered previously redacted portions the US Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against online question-and-answer platform JustAnswer unsealed, the FTC filed an unredacted version r... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 21, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has cast stronger protection for artificial intelligence, data and other emerging technologies as a strategic response to intensifying global competition, while outlining the next steps in a broader push... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
A US Patent and Trademark Office listening session Monday on the technology industry's views on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board showed there's little common ground between patent owners and challengers, but ... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday granted BMW’s motion to dismiss a bid to undo an antisuit injunction it was awarded in January — and the judges ordered Onesta I... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Alain Bibliowicz Mitrani, a resident of Miami, Florida, and a citizen of France and Colombia, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a sprawling money laundering and fraud operation ... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US regulators would require less systemic-risk data from private credit funds, which have been struggling of late, as well as from hedge and private equity funds, under a proposal today. Fewer investment advis... (more story)
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A 44-year-old citizen of Iran was extradited to the US and will appear in Seattle federal court on a nine-count indictment related to his alleged scheme to violate US trade sanctions against Iran... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK’s finance ministry has proposed tweaks to its cryptoasset legislation to “avoid placing additional burdens” on stablecoin payments, ahead of a broader regime set to take effect in 2027. Un... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK government wants to establish a single payments framework for both traditional and tokenized payments, including stablecoins and tokenized deposits, as part of a wider drive to modernize its payments re... (more story)
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Democrats on the US Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee released a new report with comprehensive analysis of Kevin Warsh’s publicly available financial disclosures and ethics agr... (more story)
Trade View More
April 20, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of International Trade partly remanded the Commerce Department’s latest revision to a 2023 review of an antisubsidy order on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea, fi... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe, Oceania
The French government won't oppose the EU-Australia trade agreement despite voting against the EU-Mercosur deal last year over agricultural concerns, MLex understands. Expectations were that France, with an ac... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Research business Ecorys will assess the economic impact of the EU’s trade defense measures, an award notice shows. The estimated length of the contract, commissioned by the European Commission's... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 20, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
The Maltese government has proposed renewing Eugène Buttigieg's appointment to the EU's General Court for another term, according to documents seen by MLex. National representatives are set to make an official... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hrvatska Banka za Obnovu i Razvitak, a Croatian development bank, may receive a capital injection worth €411 million, the European Commission said on Monday, clearing the support under EU state a... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania's plan to grant €600 million and other benefits to state-owned Nuclearelectrica National Company, to refurbish the Cernavoda 1 nuclear reactor, has drawn an in-depth EU state aid probe.
Energy View More
April 20, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Australia's incoming Solicitor General Ruth Higgins has warned of a rise in climate-related legal actions against corporations stemming from an advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice las... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: A legal opinion authored by Australia’s incoming Solicitor General Ruth Higgins and published Monday says an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate change is likely to influen... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
No breakthrough on the EU's 20th Russia sanctions plan is likely at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council next week despite the political transition in Hungary, an EU diplomat said on Friday. The package... (more story)
Technology View More
April 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungary violated the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive by restricting content portraying gender identity and homosexuality, with the bloc’s top court finding the measures unlawfully curta... (more story)
April 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission moved to voluntarily dismiss its appeal seeking review of a preliminary injunction preventing the FTC from enforcing a civil investigative demand issued to Media M... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
A US judge enjoined an Arkansas law on Monday that was set to take effect tomorrow which modified the already-barred Arkansas Social Media Act.