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Financial Crime, Financial Services
January 21, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Europe, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 21, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Europe, North America
Financial Services
January 20, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Antitrust View More
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Ticketcorner and Aktiengesellschaft Hallenstadion Zürich, or AGH, have been fined a total of 115,000 Swiss Francs (around $145,000) for a 2008 deal under which the indoor stadium would only be re... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Samsung SDI is facing an on-site inspection by South Korea’s competition watchdog, which is moving to scrutinize how major secondary battery makers are treating smaller suppliers as the industry enters a cost-... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's top competition regulator outlined its 2025 campaign against destructive competition, highlighting interventions in the photovoltaic industry, online freight platforms and local government policies. In... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 22, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Wednesday held its first meeting to draft a national strategy for AI-powered robotics, reviewing the reasons behind Japan’s weakness in service ... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday that it will allocate 14.2 billion won ($9.7 million) in funding this year to encourage the adoption of artificial intelligence-based cl... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea on Thursday opened a dedicated service to answer questions from, and provide help to, those developing, doing business with and using artificial intelligence tools while complying wit... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Constellation Developments’ acquisition of car-auction company ABVR Holdings has been provisionally cleared by the UK antitrust regulator, following an in-depth review of the deal. The Competitio... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus and Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known as Foxconn, agreed on Thursday to a joint venture that will produce zero-emission buses in Japan. The new compa... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Customer relationship management software provider Salesforce’s notification waiver application for its acquisition of US-based Qualified.com was denied by the Australian competition watchdog. In... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 22, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK lawmakers in the House of Lords approved an amendment late Wednesday that would require social media platforms to block users under 16, adding the proposal to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. The ... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia, Europe
The Chinese government and industry players have pushed back against the EU's plan to mandate a phaseout of “high-risk” information and communications technology suppliers under a revised Cybersecurity Act. Sp... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korean tech giant Kakao has moved to keep its privacy fight alive, filing an appeal this week against a lower court ruling that dismissed the company’s challenge to the privacy watchdog’s sanctions over ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 22, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, Europe
Japan’s Metropolitan Police Department has referred two men — a Japanese national and a former Russian trade official — to prosecutors on suspicion of violating the country’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act ... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
The CLEAR Act, introduced in the US House, would grant automatic stays of patent infringement litigation against end user businesses when a manufacturer joins the suit as a defendant. But the measure could cre... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The Unified Patent Court has confirmed its approach to long-arm jurisdiction in a lock patent dispute, clarifying that once validity risks become concrete, the court's reach must stop at the border. All claims... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 22, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Payment platform Airwallex Designated Business Group Australia will face an audit over suspected failures to comply with Australia’s anti-money laundering laws, the country’s financial crime watc... (more story)
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A former New Jersey-based employee of TD Bank, Oscar Marcel Nunez-Flores, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in return for facilitating a money laundering network’s movement of over $26 million t... (more story)
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission asked a federal judge to authorize an alternate method of serving Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew in a civil bribery case. The pair know a... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 22, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
London has retained its position as the world’s leading financial center for a sixth consecutive year, even as UK financial services growth slowed amid mounting pressure on the sector to drive economic growth.... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
A majority of US Supreme Court justices appear inclined to block Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s dismissal by President Trump and send the case for further adjudication. At least several Republican-appoin... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Wednesday published the list of members for the third mandate of the Platform on Sustainable Finance — its advisory body on the EU taxonomy and the broader sustainable ... (more story)
Trade View More
January 22, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
US winter strawberry growers on Wednesday urged the International Trade Commission to make a preliminary domestic industry injury finding from Mexican subject imports despite objections from numerous American ... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Imports of citric acid and certain citrate salts (CACCS) from Canada and India will continue to materially injure US industry unless the US government implements antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders, three ... (more story)
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Sergey Nechaev, a dual US-Russian citizen, was sentenced in federal court to 41 months in prison with three years of supervised release for his role in attempting to illegally export aircraft to ... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Property developer Masserud Utvikling is challenging a decision made by the EFTA Surveillance Authority last year which ordered recovery of Norwegian support it deemed illegal, and granted to the... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Championing a "techno-legal" model for regulating artificial intelligence, India's Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw argued that law alone cannot govern the digital age. Speaking at a global summit,... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Centro Latte Bressanone, an Italian dairy farmers' cooperative, may receive a direct grant worth 18.2 million euros from the national government, the European Commission said on Wednesday, cleari... (more story)
Energy View More
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s top court has dismissed Poland’s appeal against a ruling that allowed the European Commission to recover daily penalty payments imposed over continued lignite mining at the Turów site in... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet and Louis de Briant
Europe
Cyprus, the country chairing the meetings of EU ministers in the first half of this year, is keen to move quickly to secure agreement among member states on changes to the Critical Raw Materials Act to reduce ... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said Wednesday that the nuclear fusion research and development plan will start in earnest this year, with the aim of advancing the timeline for commerci... (more story)
Technology View More
January 21, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
A US judge allowed plaintiffs suing Multiplan over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy to seek new discovery concerning its Medical Audit and Review Solutions service, pursuant to a motion-to-compel which claim... (more story)
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Tammy Savage, Gerry Campbell and John Abowd will serve as the three members of a technical committee overseeing court-ordered remedies as part of monopolization litigation brought against Google ... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Input on future spectrum needs is sought from companies in program making and special events, Ofcom — the UK’s telecoms regulator — said on Wednesday. Growing use of wireless equipment used by th... (more story)