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Financial Crime
January 28, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Martin Coyle
Europe, North America
Data Privacy and Security
January 28, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Data Privacy and Security
January 28, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Antitrust View More
January 29, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
US health benefit plans suing Biogen for allegedly bribing pharmacy benefit managers and unlawfully impairing competition from generic versions of Tecfidera overcame Biogen’s motion to dismiss by dropping clai... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Chris May
North America
Window and door manufacturer Jeld-Wen is arguing that rival Steves & Sons must relitigate a case where it won the first-ever divestiture in a private antitrust suit, a US appeals court judge said Thursday.
January 29, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
The Texas attorney general's office has mandated its new chief of antitrust law enforcement to find "tough" cases affecting Texans instead of merely signing on to litigation being brought by US federal antitrust agencies.
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 29, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding stole trade secrets related to Google’s artificial intelligence technology and secretly transferred them to tech companies in China, a 12-person jury in San Francisc... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The best way to protect the UK from future AI harms is to progress an ambition to be a global leader in developing and deploying AI, a government minister told lawmakers on Thursday. The strategy was cited as ... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Luzia and Zapia said Meta’s acquisition of Manus AI supports their position that the company intends to prioritize its own AI assistant on WhatsApp because the deal fits into a sequence of actions in Brazil ai... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 29, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: TikTok's lawsuit against the US Committee on Foreign Investment in the US was voluntarily dismissed in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after the Chinese divestiture of the business.
January 29, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
A decision by a Washington, DC, federal judge that effectively killed Edwards Lifesciences’ proposed acquisition of JenaValve Technology sets an important precedent that harm can be found in markets before pro... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Norfolk Southern Chief Executive Mark George said he was “bummed” when the US Surface Transportation Board rejected Norfolk Southern's application to merge with Union Pacific, but he said the companies won’t be deterred.
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 29, 2026 | Júlia Tar and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU member states are split over how far the European Commission’s “digital omnibus” simplification package should revisit core elements of the General Data Protection Regulation, with divisions over personal d... (more story)
January 29, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Cyber innovation, resilience to cyberattacks, threat mitigation and digital sovereignty are among the key priorities laid out in France's national cybersecurity strategy for the 2026-2030 period,... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Helena Freitas
Europe
How far the planned digital euro should go, who should control it and who should bear its costs divided EU lawmakers during committee debate in the European Parliament on Thursday. Lawmakers broadly agree that... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 29, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Europe, North America
Rejection by the European Union Intellectual Property Office Grand Board of Appeal of efforts to register “George Orwell” as a trademark for use in connection with books and other related goods could be an out... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Determining how far courts should go in granting patent injunctions is dividing Europe’s tech sector. An EU study flags the uneven use of proportionality and urges officials to issue new guidance, monitor deve... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Charlotte Westphal and Inbar Preiss
Europe
This week, the Unified Patent Court saw multiple injunctions and confidentiality matters, including issuing a two-year confidentiality restriction on Vivo Mobile Communication in the appeal proceedings against... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 29, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A money laundering network that moved $39 million via withdrawals from automated teller machines in Colombia persisted for years at TD Bank in part because the lender didn’t identify the role its employees pla... (more story)
January 29, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Patrick James, founder and former chief executive of First Brands Group, and his brother Edward James, a former senior executive, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud,... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A former Nigerian oil minister being tried in the UK on bribery charges has admitted using luxury properties and receiving expensive gifts from oil executives but said all the benefits were “reimbursed.” A Lon... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 29, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
James von Moltke, Deutsche Bank’s chief financial officer, said Thursday that raids on the bank by prosecutors were linked to earlier probes into suspected money laundering issues, and described the timing of ... (more story)
January 29, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Proposed UK rules for stablecoins are coming under closer scrutiny by a committee of lawmakers in the House of Lords, the upper chamber of parliament. The Financial Services Regulation Committee ... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK trading venues and other bond data contributors are set to be publicly named if their submissions to the bond consolidated tape fail to meet required data-quality standards. In June, the UK is set to launch... (more story)
Trade View More
January 29, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The US and El Salvador signed a trade deal reached in November. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer signed the deal along with El Salvadoran Minister of Economy María Luisa Hayem. The agreemen... (more story)
January 29, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Patrol has issued a withhold release order against products from Mexican coffee farm Finca Monte Grande, alleging they were produced through forced labor. The WRO is the age... (more story)
January 29, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department published its quarterly update on cheese subsidy imports from the period July 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2025. Commerce did not assign the European Union, Norway or Swi... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 29, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe
The EU’s competition policy should be “fit for a new age” where Europe needs to forge greater economic independence, said the European Commission’s president, while also stressing the values underpinning the a... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Zenobē Energy told a UK tribunal Wednesday that its UK appeal over an alleged unlawful subsidy made by the UK’s regulator of gas and electricity markets doesn't need a court hearing over narrowed-down issues. ... (more story)
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has won approval for its plan to spend €3.1 billion in public funding to back the production of electricity from new or refurbished highly efficient combined heat and power plants, the Euro... (more story)
Energy View More
January 29, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Dozens of civil society groups, including Greenpeace and Oil Change International issued a statement on Thursday calling for a phaseout of US fossil fuels and the cancellation of the implementati... (more story)
January 29, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The EU and Vietnam have said they will deepen trade and investment opportunities in “sectors of mutual interest.” These sectors include AI, energy, critical raw materials, logistics, semiconducto... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
The possibility of US federal permitting reforms to speed up artificial intelligence infrastructure development remains uncertain this month, despite progress in the House. Senate Democrats are maintaining a p... (more story)
Technology View More
January 29, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Telekom Slovenije and rival operator T-2 gave conflicting interpretations at the EU’s top court on how a dispute over access to T-2’s network infrastructure should be resolved under EU law, in a case that coul... (more story)
January 29, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The European Commission’s Dec. 5 decision to impose a €120 million fine on US social-media platform X was published by US lawmakers on Wednesday. The House Committee on the Judiciary said it had ... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea unveiled its first comprehensive strategic roadmap to become a global leader in quantum technology, judging that falling behind could eventually erode competitiveness in other key industries such a... (more story)