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Artificial Intelligence
March 06, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Data Privacy and Security
March 05, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 05, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
Antitrust View More
March 09, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Rebids made by electricity generators Stanwell and CS Energy were rational responses to changing price forecasts, not “deliberate” attempts to inflate wholesale electricity prices as alleged by farming busines... (more story)
March 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s top legislature will step up research on artificial intelligence-related legislation and revise the Road Traffic Safety Law and the Price Law in 2026, Zhao Leji, chairman of the National ... (more story)
March 09, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Companies operating in South Korea could soon face significantly higher antitrust penalties under a proposed overhaul of the country’s fine framework, as authorities move to ensure that violations of competiti... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 09, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China will step up efforts to shield its labor market from the disruptive effects of artificial intelligence while harnessing the technology to generate new sources of growth, the country’s human resources min... (more story)
March 09, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s agriculture and rural affairs minister Han Jun said Monday that artificial intelligence applications are being incorporated into the country’s agricultural modernization efforts, citing AI-powered lase... (more story)
March 07, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Workday has lost its bid to dismiss age-discrimination claims in a lawsuit over the use of artificial intelligence hiring tools, US District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco said in an order. She ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Parties interested in RTL’s plan to take over Sky Deutschland now have 10 days to provide feedback to the European Commission. The EU merger regulator has set a provisional April 8 deadline to de... (more story)
March 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japanese power-generation company JERA’s acquisition of a half stake in liquefied natural gas company Pan Pacific Energy; the joint venture between Emirates Global Aluminium and China’s Sunstone ... (more story)
March 09, 2026
Asia
MLex summary: The Philippine Competition Commission cleared the proposed acquisition by Avon International of 100 percent of Natura & Co. UK Holdings following a Phase 1 review, finding no competition concerns... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s revised Personal Information Protection Act will be promulgated on March 10 and take effect on Sept. 11, strengthening corporate accountability for data breaches following a string ... (more story)
March 09, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
India’s proposed social media bans in the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh face operational turmoil as states define what a “child” is differently from federal law, creating compliance confusion, privacy... (more story)
March 09, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Privacy concerns cloud Digi Yatra after an Indian court questioned whether the biometric-based paperless travel initiative complies with the country's data-privacy laws. The Kerala High Court has issued a form... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 09, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China must make intellectual property commercialization a core pillar of its innovation-driven growth strategy, aligning IP policy with market forces to turn more research breakthroughs into real economic outp... (more story)
March 09, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s customs authorities blocked more than 30,000 import shipments containing intellectual property–infringing goods for a third consecutive year in 2025, maintaining elevated border enforcement levels even... (more story)
March 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US publishers including HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster sued Anna's Archive for direct copyright infringement in New York federal court, calling the defendan... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government has said that the Online Crime Centre, bringing together police, banks, tech companies and the government, will become operational in April. The OCC will target organized crime ... (more story)
March 06, 2026
Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice filed two civil forfeiture complaints against more than $15.3 million allegedly used to fund an illicit Iranian oil distribution network. According to the complaints,... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Canaccord Genuity failed to maintain an effective anti-money laundering compliance program and didn’t report suspicious activity in over-the-counter trading markets, US regulators said Friday, imposing an $80 ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 06, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The New York Stock Exchange has agreed to pay a $9 million fine to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission charges related to a 2023 technology glitch that disrupted the opening of trading in thousands of... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | Neil Roland
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Trump administration officials this week unveiled their upcoming approach to the liquidity squeeze that starved three US banks in the Spring of 2023 — and it’s largely the same policy floated by the Biden admi... (more story)
March 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Canaccord Genuity announced resolutions with US regulatory agencies over failures in its anti-money laundering compliance program. “The Board is satisfied that these regulatory matters are now re... (more story)
Trade View More
March 09, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said chipmaker Nexperia Netherlands recently “mass disabled” office software accounts of employees at Nexperia China, seriously disrupting normal production and opera... (more story)
March 09, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said Friday that the EU’s “Industrial Accelerator Act,” released March 4, amounts to protectionism and raises serious concerns for Beijing. In a statement, the minist... (more story)
March 09, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The Indonesian Ministry of Trade said it will submit a request for the suspension of concessions or other obligations aimed at the European Union to the WTO’s dispute settlement body. In a statem... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
March 06, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China will promote more balanced trade by expanding imports and strengthening domestic demand, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said Friday at a National People’s Congress press conference in Beijing, as a record... (more story)
Energy View More
March 06, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Poland's Gaz-System meets the requirements for national certification for hydrogen transmission, the EU's energy watchdog has said. In a statement, the EU's Agency for the Cooperation of Energy R... (more story)
March 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Ring-fencing and redistributing congestion income across jurisdictions in the European Commission's plans for improve EU cross-border energy infrastructure could weaken efficient investment signa... (more story)
March 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU ministers on Thursday adopted the amended European climate law, which sets a 90 percent reduction target by 2040 in net greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 levels. From 2036 onwards, 5 p... (more story)
Technology View More
March 07, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
SeatGeek's top executive told a New York jury on Friday that the company has had to offer expensive retaliation insurance to US arenas as a last resort to get the venues to switch over from Ticketmaster and to... (more story)
March 07, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
The mother of the 20-year-old woman suing Meta Platforms and YouTube over their apps’ negative impact on children was not aware of her daughter’s social media use or the potential harms it poses to young peopl... (more story)
March 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Hawaii state court Judge Kevin T. Morikone has given the Hawaii attorney general a February 2028 date for the start of a four-week jury trial against TikTok over the AG's addictive design allegations.