Data Privacy and Security
October 08, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Financial Crime
October 08, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 08, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
October 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: An individual appeared in Hong Kong's Eastern Magistrates' Courts on Friday in the first criminal case involving allegedly providing false or misleading information to the Competition Commission,... (more story)
MLex Summary: Japan's antitrust watchdog said Friday that it would survey 50,000 businesses to examine potentially unfair practices involving intellectual property rights, know-how and data, following the publ... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | MLex Staff
International liner shipping companies would be required to assess how their cooperation agreements affect China's shipping-related industrial and supply chains under proposed regulations that would also intro... (more story)
Europe
MLex Summary: The Netherlands’ privacy regulator has established a directorate to coordinate AI oversight and prepare for enforcement of the EU’s AI Act, it said Friday. The regulator has yet to be formally de... (more story)
China is proposing tighter controls on algorithms used to manage platform workers, seeking greater transparency and human oversight of decisions affecting their livelihoods as part of broader labor protections... (more story)
MLex Summary: Seven Chinese government agencies have proposed broader protections for platform workers, including restrictions on how companies use algorithms to manage their work, with public comments open th... (more story)
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Friday published the non-confidential version of its decision to allow Texas-based Baker Hughes to acquire Chart, which is headquartered in the US state of Georgia. Bot... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
The Dutch competition authority expects to use proposed powers to review mergers below mandatory notification thresholds only a handful of times a year, focusing on serial acquisitions, innovative startups and... (more story)
MLex Summary: Electric vehicle charging operator Eviny faces an in-depth Norwegian merger investigation over its proposed acquisition of rival Mer. The Norwegian competition authority said on Friday that the d... (more story)
MLex Summary: The UK’s Information Commission’s Office is investigating a surge in automated nuisance calls after complaints reached their highest level since 2021, it said Friday. Complaints rose from 1,374 i... (more story)
MLex Summary: Adventure, a Japanese online travel-booking platform operator, said on Friday that unauthorized access affecting its skyticket online travel-booking platform resulted in the leak or potential lea... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
The Philippine Senate has approved a bill that would prohibit people under 18 from holding or using social-media accounts, setting up a potential clash with a House proposal that would allow teenagers access u... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
A Dutch court has barred Merck’s under-the-skin version of cancer drug Keytruda in eight European countries, upholding Halozyme’s drug-delivery patent and applying EU top court guidance allowing courts to issu... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Japan’s Supreme Court for the first time found the “special circumstances” test satisfied for tort liability when a business copies material outside copyright protection, upholding damages over a free, adverti... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | Giorgi Dvalishvili
US internet services provider Cloudflare has appealed Italian court rulings that upheld a regulatory order for it to help prevent users in Italy from reaching sites reported as carrying pirated live streams an... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Neil Roland
The American Express National Bank, one of the US’s largest credit and charge card issuers by transaction volume, was fined $350 million by the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for deficiencies in ... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Former Barclays trader Jay Merchant, who saw his conviction for rate rigging quashed at a London appeals court on Wednesday, has said he will sue the bank, saying it needed to face "justice."
October 08, 2026
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department said it was targeting the remnants of Iran's shadow fleet, the aging network of tankers the government relies on to move billions of dollars worth of petroleum and petr... (more story)
MLex Summary: EU banks remain well above minimum capital requirements as new capital rules are phased in, the European Banking Authority has said, based on second-quarter 2026 data from 129 banks across the EU... (more story)
MLex Summary: EU finance ministers reached a compromise on Friday on a major package proposal to better integrate and supervise the bloc’s capital markets. It narrows down the scope of EU-level supervision ini... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | Yonnex Li
China's central bank has issued a forceful rejection of claims that it manipulates the yuan exchange rate to gain trade advantages, declaring that market forces play the decisive role in determining the curren... (more story)
MLex Summary: More than 40 European industry trade bodies are calling on policymakers to boost the EU's response to unfair trade practices and rising State-driven distortions, Glass Fibre Europe said Friday as... (more story)
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Almost 80 percent of Armenian exports to the EU will benefit from temporary trade preferences from Saturday, under measures aimed at supporting producers affected by Russian trade restrictions, t... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | Ryan Harrison and Oscar Pandiello
The EU has selected 46 new strategic raw materials projects to strengthen industrial supply chains and reduce reliance on foreign suppliers. Together with earlier selections, they could meet the bloc’s 2030 ca... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Three companies are blocked from submitting tenders in two public projects in the Greek energy sector after the European Commission said they'd failed to provide enough information on foreign subsidies, MLex h... (more story)
October 07, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys
The European Commission will extend Metsaf — its temporary state aid framework for energy-intensive industries — allowing EU countries to continue providing subsidies to companies hit by elevated energy prices... (more story)
October 06, 2026
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback into whether an arbitration award — ordering Romania to pay €42.2 million plus interest and costs to 10 solar-energy investors — is in line with state ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Singapore’s Competition and Consumer Commission is seeking public feedback on ENEOS APAC’s proposed acquisition of Chevron Singapore. The regulator accepted the application on Oct. 2 to assess wh... (more story)
MLex Summary: Binding renewable-energy targets for transport should continue beyond 2030 to support investment and reduce reliance on imported fuels, 13 industry groups urged in a joint letter to the European ... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe's refineries should put their transition to cleaner fuels at the heart of the European Commission's planned strategic dialogue to address the immediate supply and cost pressures fuelled by conflict in t... (more story)
MLex Summary: The Philippine Senate on Thursday passed on third reading Senate Bill No. 2424, or the Safe Media Access and Responsible Technology for Kids in Digital Spaces, or SMART KIDS Act, which seeks to b... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Imogen Howse
UK fashion retailer Asos has confirmed that a hacker gained access to personal customer information — including names and contact details — after impersonating a trusted contact to obtain an employee’s login c... (more story)
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms faces a German lawsuit over its alleged refusal to reimburse legal expenses after losing an out-of-court dispute over Facebook content originating from the Russian state-affiliated... (more story)