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Data Privacy and Security
February 25, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Artificial Intelligence
February 25, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
February 24, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
Antitrust View More
February 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Florida commercial roofing executive Gregg Wallick has pleaded guilty for his participation in a conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by rigging bids on commercial roofing projects, a... (more story)
February 26, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
The UK Competition and Markets Authority's relationship with government is “exactly back" to where it should be with clear guidance provided on strategy for the watchdog, the interim chair of the antitrust reg... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) is expected to consider next Wednesday the appeal filed by Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook and WhatsApp, against the opening of an inquiry... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The fact that OpenAI is opening its largest AI research hub outside San Francisco in London “reaffirms the UK’s global leadership as the place to pursue AI innovation that is both safe and transf... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The way that copyright rules should apply to the use of protected content in generative artificial intelligence was set out in the European Parliament’s non-binding report, published on Wednesday... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: OpenAI on Wednesday published its latest report on malicious uses of its AI models, detailing attempts that it said it disrupted. They included China’s “covert influence operations” to silence cr... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 26, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Clarifying the European Commission’s approach to “dynamic effects” is a major hurdle facing regulators as they revise their merger review guidance, according to Guillaume Loriot, who heads the merger review di... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Romanian competition authority has said that Schwarz Group may take over the supermarket chain La Cocoș. The watchdog cleared the deal under various conditions, such as preserving La Cocoș's ... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: SF Holding should be fined €380,000 for buying Odörfer Eisenwaren without regulatory approval, Austria's competition authority said it asked the national competition-specialist tribunal last week... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: German data watchdogs have urged EU lawmakers to drop plans for broad chat monitoring in child sexual abuse material rules as negotiations begin on Thursday. Such provisions, breaking end-to-end ... (more story)
February 26, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK's online safety regulator has defended in court its decision to keep secret details of meetings and exchanges with Meta, Google, X and TikTok, as campaigners argued it is stretching the law to block pub... (more story)
February 26, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The merits of EU technology sovereignty were central to a conference debate among lawmakers and officials on Thursday, with some arguing to cut off ties with US tech companies and others urging more cooperatio... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 26, 2026 | Charlotte Westphal and Inbar Preiss
Europe
The Unified Patent Court published only a few decisions this week. The court upheld Austrian packaging company Messerle’s patent on a locking mechanism for cardboard food trays, but denied its infringement. In... (more story)
February 26, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Nokia’s effort to have a dispute with Warner Bros and Paramount heard in Finland rather than in the English courts is likely to end up at the Court of Appeal in London after the Finnish company acknowledged th... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it will publish on Thursday a guidebook on the fair use of copyrighted works for the training of generative artificial intelligence syst... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Guidance for banks and other financial institutions on how to use digital identities to verify customers under the UK's anti-money laundering regime has been set out on Thursday. The UK Treasury ... (more story)
February 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned five Nicaraguan government officials who lead the principal financial, communications, and military agencies that enab... (more story)
February 26, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Graham McNulty, the chief operating officer of the UK's Serious Fraud Office, has been named as its interim head, taking over from the departing Nick Ephgrave. McNulty, a former senior policeman, will start on... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 26, 2026 | Hoa Dinh
Asia
Starting March 1, financial institutions in Vietnam will be subject to new regulations around the use of artificial intelligence systems, including requirements to conduct pre-use security checks, classify ris... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an advisory after release of two 2025 enforcement cases involving misuse of confidential information and fraud related to some prediction markets traded on Ka... (more story)
February 25, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an advisory saying that it has full authority to police illegal trading practices occurring on any designated contract markets, including predic... (more story)
Trade View More
February 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: German producer BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade challenging the Commerce Department's January final antidumping review on forged steel fluid end b... (more story)
February 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Chinese producer Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited filed a lawsuit at the Court of International Trade challenging the US Commerce Department's January final review of an antisubsidy determin... (more story)
February 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit directed the Trump administration to respond by Feb. 27 to a motion from a coalition of small businesses and 12 Democrat-run states for a mandate t... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 25, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
The EU and UK’s competition watchdogs have formalized a cooperation agreement that would ensure “smooth interactions” on antitrust and merger cases. The deal was unique in that it would allow the Competition a... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Enforcers at the UK's Competition and Markets Authority will be able to cooperate more closely with colleagues at the European Commission and national enforcers within the EU, after a new agreeme... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The granting of operating aid for renewable energy on a larger scale will become possible, and rules on aid for airports will become more flexible, under proposed changes to the EU's State Aid Ge... (more story)
Energy View More
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: European countries built 19 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity in 2025 and invested €45 billion in new wind projects, according to a study by industry group WindEurope. The association warned ... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Presentation of the EU's energy package, which includes measures to strengthen energy security, an electrification plan, and a heating and cooling strategy, has been postponed to May 19, the Euro... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Presidential Council on National Artificial Intelligence Strategy on Wednesday adopted the final version of a three-year policy roadmap aimed at fostering the development and adopti... (more story)
Technology View More
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: “Loot box” disclosures must be prominently featured on app store listings, the UK regulator for advertising has said in an enforcement notice. The Committee of Advertising Practice’s notice clari... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU lawmakers have backed a common social-media age threshold of 16, with parental consent required below that age and a ban for under-13s. An opinion approved on Thursday calls for “privacy-frien... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Sky’s Austrian streaming service shouldn't count as “digital content” under EU consumer law, a legal opinion for the EU's highest court said on Thursday. The case focuses on whether the streaming... (more story)