Energy, Financial Crime, Trade
October 13, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Financial Crime, Technology
October 13, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
Africa, Europe, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 12, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
October 13, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Cooperation between the EU’s antitrust enforcer and data protection authorities in a search data-sharing probe into Google has been impeded because of a lack of legal clarity on what kind of sensitive informat... (more story)
October 13, 2026
MLex Summary: Households on heating oil will benefit from better protection under UK government plans to regulate the market for the first time, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said. Earlier, t... (more story)
MLex Summary: Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced a lawsuit against several pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy benefit managers regarding an alleged conspiracy to manipulate insulin price ma... (more story)
MLex Summary: In addition to high operating costs for Character.AI's large language model, "Character's changes to its products, including age restrictions and harm detection, have contributed to increased cos... (more story)
MLex Summary: Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has asked the state's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) to open a comprehensive review of how the state's electric, gas and water utilities ar... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta Platforms and OpenAI defended different approaches to AI regulation when grilled by UK lawmakers at a high-profile parliamentary hearing Tuesday afternoon. While broadly agreei... (more story)
MLex Summary: Recreational vehicle part suppliers Patrick Industries and LCI Industries received a second request inquiry from the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division on Oct. 9 regarding their propos... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Colas’s proposed acquisition of Suit-Kote faces a legal challenge from Pennsylvania’s attorney general, who alleges the deal would eliminate competition for asphalt emulsions and pavement preservation services... (more story)
MLex Summary: Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday has filed a federal complaint challenging Colas Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Suit-Kote Corporation, alleging that the deal is likely to substantially l... (more story)
MLex Summary: An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical or other device to intercept oral communications, the US Department of Justice a... (more story)
MLex Summary: A US federal judge granted final approval to a $68 million settlement of six-year-old litigation over the alleged recording of consumers' voices by Google's voice assistant.
October 13, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Cybersecurity certification would remain voluntary by default, and checks on risks posed by non-EU countries would be retained under amendments from Swedish center-right EU lawmaker Tomas Tobé, dated Tuesday a... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Following objections from major patent holders and smaller technology firms alike, the UK government is taking a lighter touch to standard-essential patent reform, focusing instead on licensing guidance, volun... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
A Shanghai appeals court upheld a ruling ordering a platform operator to pay compensation for using artificial intelligence to replicate a voice actor’s voice without permission for commercial promotion, clari... (more story)
Insta360 has lost a design patent appeal against three Shenzhen-based companies, with a Chinese court finding that shared camera features common in earlier designs were insufficient to establish infringement.
Bank of America was hit with a $1.2 billion penalty by US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network over its failure to mitigate and report national security risks. The agency credited $750 mi... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department announced enforcement actions imposing more than $1.21 billion in penalties against Bank of America, the second-largest bank in the United States, for violations of ant... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Government backing for calls by the UK's Serious Fraud Office to boost its enforcement capabilities by paying whistleblowers is a timely fillip for an enforcer looking to improve its reputation. But there is a... (more story)
MLex Summary: Three individuals have been arrested as part of a "major operation" against suspected insider trading, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority said on Tuesday. The investigation saw more than 100 FC... (more story)
MLex Summary: Digital operational resilience, technological innovation, sustainable finance, securitization and cross-sectoral risk monitoring are the key priorities of the European Supervisory Authorities — E... (more story)
Assurances that AI agents will always behave as expected are still lacking, the head of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority told lawmakers Tuesday. Chief Executive Nikhil Rathi said any standards for frontier... (more story)
Europe, Middle East
MLex Summary: The EU and Turkey agreed to strengthen customs cooperation and continue work on trade barriers, according to a joint statement issued today after their third high-level trade dialogue in Brussels... (more story)
MLex Summary: A binational panel of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Secretariat’s US Section has partially affirmed the US Commerce Department’s affirmative countervailing duty determination for cert... (more story)
MLex Summary: US importer Coastal Specialty Forest Products has filed a lawsuit at the Court of International Trade to contest Customs and Border Protection's affirmative evasion determination that said the co... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
A foreign-backed company bidding for a tender in Greece's energy sector must notify the European Commission of financial contributions it has received from outside the EU, even though the bid falls below manda... (more story)
October 12, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
EU competition chief Teresa Ribera pledged to step up efforts to make Europe's cross-border state aid projects faster and easier for companies to navigate, warning that procedural delays could cost promising t... (more story)
October 12, 2026
MLex Summary: Parties interested in capital injections received by PostNord Strålfors — totaling €15.9 million and made by its parent company PostNord Strålfors Group — now have one month in which to send feed... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Louis de Briant
The next round of negotiations on EU rules for cross-border energy infrastructure will take place on Nov. 17, following constructive talks between lawmakers and member states Tuesday, according to an EU offici... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Turkey’s deputy trade minister has warned that tighter European-content requirements under the EU’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act could exclude Turkish producers, disrupt shared supply chains and raise c... (more story)
October 12, 2026 | Louis de Briant
The European Commission has no plans to make further changes to the planned extension of the EU's Emissions Trading System to buildings and road transport, Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said Monday. More... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Meta Platforms has accused UK regulator Ofcom of seeking the highest possible online safety fines without properly assessing what was needed to deter breaches, a London court hearing heard on Tuesday. Ofcom re... (more story)
MLex Summary: The EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act could impose €115 billion in costs over a decade, according to a study commissioned by the Computer & Communications Industry Association, or CCIA E... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Anna Ferrari
Germany’s draft overhaul of media merger rules has been published for public consultation. The proposal would implement the European Media Freedom Act by replacing the current television-focused regime with a ... (more story)