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Data Privacy and Security, Financial Crime
March 09, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Financial Crime
March 09, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Artificial Intelligence
March 09, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust View More
March 10, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Publishers accusing Google of monopolizing the markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges and engaged in illegal tying asked a US federal judge to deny Google’s request for summary judgmen... (more story)
March 10, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Agri Stats’ settlement to resolve to resolve claims that it conspired to depress wages for employees has been granted final approval by a US federal judge. As part of the deal, Agri Stats agreed ... (more story)
March 10, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: North Carolina Attorney General Jell Jackson said in posts to X that the US Department of Justice "cut a backroom deal" with Live Nation and Ticketmaster to resolve the agency's monopolization cl... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 10, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
OpenAI must turn over 88 million recently discovered anonymous ChatGPT conversations, US Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang ordered late Monday, in a win for news outlets and book authors seeking evidence of copyrig... (more story)
March 10, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Perplexity AI has asked the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to review a district court order granting Amazon's request for a preliminary injunction pausing its Comet AI agent's ability ... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The EU's highest court heard arguments in a landmark dispute over how copyright law applies to generative AI, as a Hungarian publisher accused Google of unlawfully using press content to train its Gemini chatb... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 10, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
The UK antitrust regulator risks a “credibility problem” by sitting on the sidelines to see how other regulators tackle global mergers before it decides whether it needs to investigate, a senior competition la... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
The UK government’s proposal to scrap the independent panel of decision makers that oversee in-depth merger reviews raises the risk of future political influence in decision-making, NatWest Group’s head of com... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Proposals in a package of government measures open for consultation over the operation of the UK competition regulator have been largely welcomed by the watchdog. Plans include changes to the pan... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Proposals to simplify the EU digital legislative framework are an "important reform" and have the backing of the European Central Bank, it said in an opinion published on Tuesday. It particularly... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
French adtech company Criteo has lost its appeal at the country's highest administrative court against a €40 million fine imposed by the privacy watchdog for various violations related to its tracking cookies ... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Criteo, a French adtech company, has lost its appeal at the country's highest administrative court against a €40 million fine imposed by the privacy watchdog for various violations related to its... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 10, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Google is being challenged again over its use of the word “Shorts” for its short-form video service on YouTube from a producer and distributor of short films. Shorts International is appealing against a 2024 l... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU heads of states and governments will suggest a set of actions to support the bloc's competitiveness at their next summit on March 19 and 20, according to a draft of the final conclusions obtai... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A Tokyo court ordered a railway operator to pay damages for uploading newspaper article images to its internal intranet, ruling that Kyodo News dispatch text was copyright protected expression and not merely “... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 10, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Online platforms and telecom providers could see UK legislative action if they do not do enough to tackle fraud, a new government strategy shows. MLex has learned the plan includes a consultation that will be ... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Housebuilder Vistry has confirmed that two accountants formerly employed by the company are under investigation by the UK's Financial Reporting Council. The FRC said on Tuesday that it had opened... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Smartmatic is the victim of vindictive and selective prosecution because it is an enemy of President Donald Trump, the company said in a motion to dismiss US corruption charges tied to an alleged... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 10, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK-based trading platform JP Jenkins is set to host the first share sale on Pisces, the new regulator-backed private market venue. Board-game developer QPlay will use the platform for the transaction, which wi... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Helena Freitas
Europe
A plan to mobilize private capital for the clean energy transition was unveiled by the EU, which warned that public funding alone cannot meet the roughly €660 billion needed annually through 2030. The plan aim... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Parliament has endorsed François-Louis Michaud as the next chair of the European Banking Authority, following his selection by member states. His nomination comes after the resignati... (more story)
Trade View More
March 10, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that Bulgaria, Egypt and Vietnam are dumping steel concrete reinforcing bar. Commerce assigned a preliminary dumping rate of 52.8 percent t... (more story)
March 10, 2026
North America
MLex summary: US freight rail coupler (FRC) producer McConway & Torley LLC filed an anticircumvention request into whether an importer, The Greenbrier Companies, Inc., is avoiding antidumping and antisubsidy d... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
INTA, the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee, is set to vote on the EU-US trade deal on March 19 after it previously put its work on the dossier on hold, according to Jörgen Warborn, a key law... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 10, 2026 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Europe
An investigation into Spain's plan to grant €20.7 million in regional aid to carmaker Peugeot for investing in its existing plant in Vigo has been closed. In a formal notice issued Tuesday, the European Commis... (more story)
March 06, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania has won EU approval for a €150 million plan to support the installation of new electricity storage capacity. The government will provide direct grants for standalone battery storage syste... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst and Jon Menon
Europe
A UK probe into imports of titanium dioxide from China has started following allegations that imports of the material are being dumped into the market and harming the domestic industry. Separately China’s LB G... (more story)
Energy View More
March 10, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Small modular nuclear reactors are aimed for deployment in Europe by the early 2030s under a European Commission strategy that backs a limited number of projects and closer regulatory alignment. The plan focus... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Small modular reactors could be deployed in Europe by the early 2030s, the European Commission has said in a strategy published on Tuesday. The plan calls for focusing on a limited number of proj... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has published a plan to boost investment in clean energy, dubbed Clean Energy Investment Strategy, aimed at mobilizing private capital to meet the EU’s 2030 and 2050 clima... (more story)
Technology View More
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: New UK plans for a national digital ID were put out for consultation by the government on Tuesday. The proposal would embed the ID in GOV.UK systems and extend its use to age checks and hiring, t... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission’s implementing rules for the European Digital Identity Wallets — known as EUDI Wallets — are diluting privacy safeguards, digital rights and consumer protection groups sai... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta is facing increased financial pressure, after the Amsterdam Court of Appeal raised the maximum penalty in the Bits of Freedom case concerning non-profiled recommender systems on Facebook and... (more story)