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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 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Nine pork processors supplying one of South Korea’s largest supermarket chains coordinated prices when selling pork cuts to the retailer, the country’s antitrust regulator said Thursday, imposing fines totalin... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Apple has seen a collective action alleging antitrust abuse in how it handled iPhone power problems partially struck out by a UK court. Consumer champion Justin Gutmann's case claims that Apple a... (more story)
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: In Irico Group's fight over the damages it owes for allegedly conspiring to fix prices of cathode-ray-tube products, a California federal judge adopted a modified version of the damages model pre... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs challenging California’s law against deceptive election communications on social media platforms told a US appeals court that the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the state fro... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU lawmakers have struck a political deal on amendments to the bloc's landmark AI law, including a new ban on non-consensual sexual deepfakes and eased rules for AI in sector-regulated products. The plan would... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Center for Countering Digital Hate, an advocacy group, has said that eight out of 10 AI chatbots were regularly willing to assist users in the planning of violent attacks. The CCDH's research... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 11, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
Brazil’s competition authority last month unconditionally cleared United Airlines’ $100 million investment in Azul Linhas Aéreas, but based its approval on governance provisions set out in the deal’s term shee... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
A coalition of state broadband and cable associations sent an ex-parte letter to the US Federal Communications Commission, proposing conditions that would mitigate potential public interest harms from Nexstar’... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
Getty Images may have to divest almost all of the editorial business of Shutterstock to ease antitrust concerns over the merger of the companies, under one scenario proposed by the UK regulator. The Competitio... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 12, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Lotte Card was slapped with a 9.6 billion won ($6.5 million) fine by South Korea’s privacy watchdog after a probe into a major data breach found violations involving the handling of resident registration numbers.
March 12, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s privacy regulator on Thursday announced that it has fined Lotte Card 9.6 billion won ($6.5 million) after a hacking incident exposed the personal credit information of about 2.97 mi... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A New Mexico jury deciding whether Meta Platforms built its apps in ways that harmed children queried Instagram chief Adam Mosseri on Wednesday about the company’s recommendation algorithms and internal messag... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 11, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Online marketplaces and e-commerce platforms could one day be faced with requirements in the UK to identify vendors and customers as part of measures to combat copyright and trademark infringement. Such measur... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Cross-industry guidelines clarifying how competition law applies to transactions involving intellectual property rights, know-how and data will be issued in Japan, the country’s antitrust watchdog said Wednesd... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Standard-essential patent disputes should be steered back toward their contractual core rather than stretched to fit antitrust enforcement, a senior Chinese antitrust adviser said at a conference Wednesday in Shenzhen.
Financial Crime View More
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and the New Jersey Bureau of Securities, within the Division of Consumer Affairs, announced that a New Jersey-based broker-dealer has agreed to pay ... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A jury in Los Angeles could decide this summer whether a chartered helicopter ride to a Lakers basketball game for a Senegalese government official, paid for with allegedly stolen investor funds as part of a b... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The UK financial regulator made “significant errors in law” as part of a fraud probe into a lawyer, judges have said, ordering it to reapply for a search warrant against the man. The High Court said that Finan... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 11, 2026 | Neil Roland
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Along with the Basel III capital proposal for large banks, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. plans to issue this month a proposal for mid-size banks aimed at improving risk sensitivity in lending for serv... (more story)
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Binance sued The Wall Street Journal over a report published in February that said the cryptocurrency exchange had fired compliance department employees for reporting transactions involving Iran.... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Frank Hersey and Sofia Gerace
Europe
Sensible standards are needed for governing AI in financial services firms, said an official from the financial watchdog, noting that companies are turning to voluntary standards in the meantime. Sheldon Mills... (more story)
Trade View More
March 12, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The Trump administration on Wednesday launched a major Section 301 trade investigation into several of the world's largest economies including China, the EU, South Korea, Japan and India.
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The office of the US Trade Representative launched a Section 301 trade investigation into alleged unfair trade practices involving "structural excess capacity and production in manufacturing sect... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
The US Commerce Department did not consider all the necessary factors it needed to consider when including an enriched ammonium sulfate isotope within the scope of the duty orders on Chinese ammonium sulfate, ... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
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)
Energy View More
March 11, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The International Energy Agency's 32 member countries will release a record 400 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves in a bid to address disruptions in oil markets stemming from t... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
The European Commission is considering capping or subsidizing gas prices as part of potential changes to the EU electricity market design aimed at cutting energy costs, commission President Ursula von der Leye... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Energy security is a cornerstone of EU-Azerbaijan bilateral cooperation, European Council President António Costa has said. Speaking after a meeting in Baku on Wednesday, he described the partner... (more story)
Technology View More
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms' services Facebook and Instagram, Google's video platform YouTube, as well as Roblox, Snapchat and TikTok must enforce their minimum age rules, strengthen protections against groom... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Tech companies must strengthen their age checks to protect children’s data over the next two months or face enforcement action, the UK privacy regulator has warned. The Information Commissioner’s... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
The jury in the ongoing trial in Los Angeles over social media addiction must answer a key question: If Kaley, the 20-year-old plaintiff who sued Meta Platforms and YouTube, exaggerated mistreatment by her fam... (more story)