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Antitrust, Technology
January 27, 2026 | Chris May
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
January 27, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 26, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Antitrust View More
January 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Google has seen the European Commission open “specification” proceedings under the Digital Markets Act to set out how the company should should grant rival AI services access to software and hard... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan
Asia
Indonesia’s antitrust watchdog has fined two contractors a combined 3 billion rupiah ($179,000) for rigging a tender linked to the construction of a state-owned hospital in West Java. The Indonesian Competitio... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Google is the target of two new EU procedures that will “specify” how it can comply with digital rules so that AI providers can interoperate with Android and access search data. The European Commission is look... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Anthropic is developing an AI assistant designed to help UK jobseekers in their campaign. A pilot is expected to launch later this year, the technology ministry announced Tuesday. It will be part... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
AI's impact on the UK's retail financial services is set for close scrutiny by the financial markets watchdog, which on Tuesday opened a review examining potential implications. The Financial Conduct Authority... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Telecom companies and others in the UK have been invited to tell the communications regulator how AI impacts their businesses and customers. Ofcom said its six-week consultation seeks input on ho... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 27, 2026
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: Twelve US states and the District of Columbia have asked the court reviewing the Department of Justice's settlement with Hewlett-Packard and Juniper for a hold separate order, which would require... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Brazilian pulp and paper maker Suzano has requested EU foreign subsidy clearance to buy a majority stake in Kimberly-Clark’s tissue business. The European Commission has set a March 2 deadline to decide whethe... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: A joint venture between Ireland-based Peninsula Petroleum, a global integrated physical bunker fuel supplier, and Japanese trade company Itochu; a joint venture formed by companies including Mint... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 27, 2026
Europe, Latin America
MLex Summary: Personal data will be able to flow freely between the European Union and Brazil, after the European Commission and Brazil agreed mutual adequacy decisions confirming their data protection regimes... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
The EU's planned changes to the bloc's data protection and artificial intelligence rules aim to codify existing court case law and improve legal certainty rather than lower safeguards, European Commission offi... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: A Chongqing-based technology company has received a warning and an order to correct its practices for violating China's Cybersecurity Law. In a statement on Monday, the Chongqing internet regulat... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 27, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Losses from the online piracy of Japanese-origin content reached an estimated 10.4 trillion yen ($67 billion) in 2025, underscoring the scale of enforcement challenges confronting Japan’s creative industries a... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Wuxi DK Electronic Materials has filed two new high-profile patent-infringement lawsuits, accusing Chinese rivals of unlawfully using photovoltaic silver-paste technologies originally developed by US chemical giant DuPont.
January 26, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
At first blush, a California federal judge’s refusal Friday to consider evidence recently gleaned from Texas patent litigation might look like a setback for Realtek on its antitrust claims against MediaTek. B... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 26, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US public company disclosure requirements, including those for cybersecurity, should be scaled back, Securities and Exchange Commission member Mark Uyeda said. Uyeda, a Republican, said other areas for streaml... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
One of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s first acts in office was to deprioritize US anti-bribery enforcement, but on Monday the Justice Department touted its efforts over the past year, highlighting wins in two tr... (more story)
January 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A Turkish national and a German national were charged in the US over their alleged roles in a bribery scheme involving contracts with the US military and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 27, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, has warned there’s a “particular and urgent need” to boost the global resilience of market-based finance. His remarks come as UK financial regulators are tig... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The European Securities and Markets Authority has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Reserve Bank of India to support cooperation and information sharing for recognizing Indian central... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Europe’s central banking system will start accepting assets which use distributed ledger technology as collateral for its credit operations from March 30, the ECB said on Tuesday. They must be re... (more story)
Trade View More
January 27, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Indian companies exporting goods in scope of the EU's carbon border tax will receive technical support under the EU-India trade deal announced on Tuesday, a European Commission official said. The agreement als... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s presidential office said Tuesday that a recent letter from the US side, sent to the government ahead of President Donald Trump’s remarks about re-raising tariffs, focused primarily ... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China and Canada are forging a new type of strategic partnership that will not target any third parties, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Monday. Responding to US thre... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said it signed on Monday a statement of intent with the US Department of Energy to deepen bilateral collaboration on artific... (more story)
January 23, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Facing growing risks of semiconductor supply disruptions, Japan’s automotive industry is preparing to launch a common platform with chip suppliers to assess supply-chain conditions. The head of the industry gr... (more story)
January 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Friday it has approved loans and subsidies of up to $73 million to support the expansion and operation of undersea cables between Japa... (more story)
Energy View More
January 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU energy watchdog has issued guidance on voluntary reporting to track cybersecurity performance in EU electricity networks. Power companies and service providers will share data on cyber thr... (more story)
January 26, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Several European states committed at the North Sea Summit on Monday to develop up to 100 gigawatts of a joint 300 GW ambition through cross-border cooperation projects. The industry pledged to reduce electrici... (more story)
January 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU imports of Russian liquefied natural gas and pipeline gas will be gradually prohibited, the Council of the EU said on Monday. The ban will start to apply six weeks after the regulation enters ... (more story)
Technology View More
January 27, 2026 | Flore Coin-Deleau
Europe
Children in France under 15 may later this year face a ban on using social media platforms — including Snapchat, Meta Platforms’ Instagram and Facebook, as well as Google’s YouTube — after lawmakers approved t... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
The Philippines has dropped plans for mandatory social media ID verification, shifting to a voluntary, public-education approach, DICT Secretary Henry Aguda said. The draft rule would have required all account... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australia’s privacy regulator cautioned the country’s online safety watchdog against taking an overly broad approach to age-verification in the lead-up to the country’s social media minimum age laws that took ... (more story)