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Financial Crime
March 11, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
March 10, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Financial Crime
March 09, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Former federal antitrust enforcers told a US appeals court that it should rehear an appeal regarding an injunction issued in antitrust litigation brought by Epic Games over Apple's App Store, say... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Petrol and diesel prices will come under closer scrutiny from the UK antitrust regulator, which is to accelerate a review of fuel margins made since the Middle East conflict began. The Competitio... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Sony competes fairly through its PlayStation games platform, the company told a UK judge on Thursday as it rejected allegations brought in a mass claim over digital store pricing. The damages lawsuit is being ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 12, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Amy Miller
North America
Regulatory certainty for artificial intelligence remains a pipe dream three months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order discouraging “onerous” US state laws governing AI. Absent predictabilit... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU parliamentary officials provisionally agreed to tighten value chain duties under the AI Act, extending cooperation obligations to general-purpose AI model providers and making breaches sanctionable. The cha... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: “Off-the-shelf” AI systems will be removed from mandatory notification rules in the UK, in changes to the requirements for national security investments. The government said this should benefit t... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 12, 2026 | Matthew Newman and Lewis Crofts
Europe
European officials shouldn’t overregulate the telecom sector and should allow companies to “scale up” so they can compete globally, Timotheus Höttges, Deutsche Telekom’s chief executive, said on Thursday. The ... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
The US Department of Justice has asked a federal court in California to deny a group of intervening states’ request for an evidentiary hearing in the Tunney Act review of a settlement over Hewlett Packard Ente... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
The UK government’s proposed changes to the competition regime would place too much power in the hands of the Competition and Markets Authority’s board and increase the risk or perception of political interfer... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Calling the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act a "Trojan Horse" of online censorship, tech industry group NetChoice said a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit leaves... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
While the latest child online safety package from the US House of Representatives includes bills of the same name that have already been passed by the Senate, the chambers' different versions are likely to cau... (more story)
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Josh Hawley urged the US Supreme Court to review a case bringing privacy and sex-trafficking claims against X Corp. in order to rule that nothing in the text, structure, or history of ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 12, 2026 | Charlotte Westphal and Inbar Preiss
Europe
This week, the Unified Patent Court referred questions to the EU's top court to clarify cross-border jurisdiction and intermediary liability in a case involving Dyson. The court also closed several proceedings... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Nvidia has defeated a claim at the Unified Patent Court, with judges finding its AI systems did not infringe ParTec’s patent, according to a decision seen by MLex. The German supercomputing company said it wil... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
As Chinese companies expand overseas and the country’s economy continues to grow, China has become an increasingly influential legal forum for resolving disputes over standard-essential patents, a leading inte... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A group of Senate Democrats is proposing to extend the statute of limitations for a key anti-bribery law to give future administrations additional time to prosecute Trump-era corporate corruption. Though unlik... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Martin Coyle and Samuel Rubenfeld
Europe
Former UK Serious Fraud Office head David Green has intervened on behalf of UBS in the investment bank’s defense against a $400 million US lawsuit filed by former trader Tom Hayes. “The decision to prosecute M... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Deutsche Bank faces a £600 million UK court claim by four former executives alleging their careers suffered harm following Italian court proceedings related to the German bank's involvement with ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A range of steps to make investing more accessible, including simplifying disclosures, easing suitability checks and clarifying sustainability preference rules, have been set out by the EU’s fina... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Financial Conduct Authority said on Thursday that operational resilience must be a priority for the retail banking sector. The FCA release comes as on the same day that Lloyds Bank experie... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU and UK financial regulatory authorities stressed the importance of actively monitoring the impact of the ongoing situation in the Middle East on the financial system, the minutes of the fifth ... (more story)
Trade View More
March 12, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
Weeks after the US Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump from using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to levy tariffs, the US military campaign against Iran may unlock new executiv... (more story)
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary; The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their roles in North Korean government-orchestrated information technology worker... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
EU countries are to notify the International Energy Agency by 6pm Thursday evening if they opt to release any oil from strategic reserves as part of a 400 million-barrel coordinated action amid the Iran crisis... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 12, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
The risk that an energy-price spike may see companies exploit customers requires the attention of antitrust enforcers, but regulators are better prepared after past conflicts, Teresa Ribera said. The EU's comp... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Publishers of printed press and periodicals will be eligible for direct grants, under a Spanish plan worth €70 million to support them in the acquisition of digitalization solutions such as edit... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved €260 million of Belgian state aid in favor of Air Liquide and BASF, earmarked for the development of Kairos@C, a carbon capture and storage project. The CCS p... (more story)
Energy View More
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Weakening the 2030 car CO2 target as proposed by the European Commission would make the average electric car €2,300 more expensive in 2030 than under the current objective and reduce the sector’s... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Truck manufacturers will be allowed to bank additional emission credits before 2030 and use them later for compliance, after the European Parliament voted on Thursday to amend heavy-duty vehicle ... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Farming business Stillwater Pastoral has warned an Australian court hearing an antitrust appeal against electricity generators Stanwell Corporation and CS Energy that relying on "mathematical" proportions alon... (more story)
Technology View More
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Most of a California law that imposes restrictions on companies to protect children online can go into effect, according to a ruling by a three-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Nint... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission and the European Data Protection Board on Thursday published more than 100 contributions to their consultation on the interplay of the Digital Markets Act and the EU’s Gen... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback on the proposal for a European Business Wallet, which was presented in November. The wallet will “enable secure digital identification, data sharing an... (more story)