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Antitrust, Technology
March 20, 2026 | Chris May
North America
Financial Crime
March 19, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Martin Coyle
Europe, North America
Artificial Intelligence, Energy
March 19, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust View More
March 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: California Crane School failed to convince the US Supreme Court to review its case against Apple and Google over a deal to keep Apple from competing in general search and search ads. The US Court... (more story)
March 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: CoStar Group's request for US Supreme Court review of CREXi's monopolization case over Internet CRE listings and auction services has been denied. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit re... (more story)
March 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's Court of Justice and General Court had 1,878 news cases in total in 2025, up from 1,706 the previous year, while the number of pending cases dropped to 2,489 from 2,509 in 2024, official... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 23, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
EU officials say copyright rules may not need overhauling to address AI challenges, but a focus instead put on enforcement and licensing. While licensing markets are emerging, they remain uneven, as regulators... (more story)
March 23, 2026
North America
MLex summary: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren opened an investigation into the US Department of Defense's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, as well as DOD's subsequent contract with OpenA... (more story)
March 23, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The EU's ability to police the use of cookies could be at risk if the European Commission's legislative plans to make Ireland's data protection authority responsible for the job across the whole bloc go ahead,... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: IonQ and SkyWater filed their Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification forms with the US Department of Justice and US Federal Trade Commission on Feb. 20, IonQ said in a filing with the US Securi... (more story)
March 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hal Investments' planned acquisition of construction business VolkerWessels requires a full investigation, the Dutch competition authority said on Monday. The deal would lead to a group of large ... (more story)
March 23, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s antitrust regulator will strengthen oversight of provincial authorities handling merger reviews as it expands an entrustment system designed to improve efficiency and redistribute caseloads. Commenting... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: An objector to Oracle’s $115 million settlement in privacy litigation concerning its data broker business failed to convince a US appeals court to rehear their case. The US Court of Appeals for t... (more story)
March 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The French data watchdog has not breached the GDPR by allowing health data to be transferred to an Irish Microsoft server, France's highest administrative court said on Monday. Even though certai... (more story)
March 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Bulgaria is facing legal action in the EU's highest court from the European Commission for allegedly failing to comply with EU rules on online terrorism content, a note in the EU's official journ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 23, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese voice actors are pushing back against unauthorized use of their voices for artificial intelligence training and monetization, spotlighting tensions between rapidly advancing speech technology and the p... (more story)
March 23, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Tokyo District Court held that a subtitle translator had allowed broad reuse of their work across broadcast and streaming, but not the omission of their name, drawing a clear line between economic righ... (more story)
March 20, 2026 | Emma Whitford, Nick Robertson and Madeline Hughes
North America
President Donald Trump on Friday released a highly-anticipated framework to lightly regulate artificial intelligence and preempt certain US state AI laws. In doing so, he passed the ball to Congress. There, an... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued a general license temporarily allowing sales of Iranian oil already at sea until April 19 amid the US-Israel war on Iran.
March 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Three men were sentenced in US federal court after pleading guilty to their roles in a nationwide scheme that enabled North Korean workers to access US-based computer networks.
March 20, 2026 | Neil Roland
Asia, North America
The US Securities and Exchange Commission should examine how China might be exploiting murky corporate structures called variable interest entities, which may be used by hundreds of Chinese companies listed on... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The former chief executive of Nodus International Bank, a Puerto Rican lender, has pleaded guilty to leading a scheme to fraudulently obtain at least $24.9 million from the bank and conspiring t... (more story)
March 20, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The former chief executive of Nodus International Bank pleaded guilty in US court to leading a scheme to fraudulently obtain nearly $25 million from the Puerto Rican lender and to violate sanctions on Venezuel... (more story)
March 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Market Financial Solutions, a UK mortgage company that collapsed amid fraud claims, is under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority. The regulator said on Friday it had opened an enforc... (more story)
Trade View More
March 23, 2026
North America
MLex summary: The US Bureau of Industry and Security opened an inclusions window for interested parties to submit comments for including more car parts within the scope of Section 232 duties on automobiles and... (more story)
March 23, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
European gas stockpiling should start early to prepare for next winter, relying on flexibilities introduced in last year’s revised gas storage regulation, according to a letter from EU Energy Commissioner Dan ... (more story)
March 23, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe, Oceania
The trade deal between the EU and Australia which is due to be signed on Tuesday could increase European exports to the country by 33 percent and cut tariffs for EU companies by €1 billion, the European Commis... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark has secured European Commission approval to spend €5 billion to support the construction and operation of the Hesselø and North Sea I Mid offshore wind farms. The 20-year measure will con... (more story)
March 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: France has secured EU approval for a program to support the construction of 1 GW of hydrogen electrolysis capacity, the European Commission said Monday. The measure, which comes in the form of a ... (more story)
March 19, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Marc van der Woude, the president of the EU’s lower-tier General Court, is set to leave the judiciary this autumn, MLex has learned. His resignation will take effect on Sept. 15 and is for personal reasons, a ... (more story)
Energy View More
March 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU countries should start stockpiling gas for next winter as early as possible to benefit from a longer injection period, help mitigate against any pressure on prices, and avoid an end-of-summer ... (more story)
March 23, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Major South Korean oil refiners — SK Energy, GS Caltex, S-Oil and HD Hyundai Oilbank — are being raided by prosecutors over collusion allegations, the Korea Prosecution Service confirmed Monday, with search-an... (more story)
March 20, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Weak voltage control in Spain’s power system was a key cause of the April 28, 2025, blackout affecting Spain and Portugal, the trade association for European electricity transmission system operators has said.... (more story)
Technology View More
March 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Eleven associations representing EU broadcasters have sent a joint letter to the European Commission asking it to designate Big Tech operators of connected-TV operating systems and virtual assist... (more story)
March 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Portugal is facing EU court action for failing to fulfil its obligations under the Digital Services Act by the deadline of Dec. 3, 2024. According to the European Commission’s action, the country... (more story)
March 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Temu has agreed to a court settlement over alleged breaches of the EU’s digital services law, Austria's independent Association for Consumer Information said Monday. The online shopping platform ... (more story)