Trade
October 20, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
October 20, 2026 | Chris May
Artificial Intelligence
October 20, 2026 | Mike Swift
October 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Spanish chemicals logistics provider Exolum has rejected allegations of abusing its dominant position in the transport and storage of liquid hydrocarbons, biofuels and chemicals. Responding to an... (more story)
MLex Summary: Italian utility group A2A has offered commitments to address an abuse-of-dominance investigation into suspected margin squeezing in electric-vehicle charging. The proposals, published on Wednesda... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Standard implementers that question the quality of comparable licenses and offer binding arbitration could put pressure on patent owners to produce more agreements in support of injunction requests, Munich Jud... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Emma Whitford
The revelation Wednesday that two major security vulnerabilities exist in programming language PHP highlights a significant challenge of the artificial intelligence age: AI can help hackers quickly find and ex... (more story)
MLex summary: The White House issued a statement following PHP Foundation's announcement of two major cybersecurty vulnerabilities potentially impacting large swaths of the internet. "President Trump is commit... (more story)
MLex Summary: A group of 149 former US judges and the Democracy Defenders Fund told an appeals court that the deference courts afford the executive branch in national security matters doesn't extend to the exe... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
The Delaware Supreme Court spent most of a hearing Wednesday questioning lawyers for Verisk Analytics and AccuLynx over the meaning of the term "willful conduct" and promised to try to return a quick decision ... (more story)
Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Artificial intelligence and digital markets remain a top focus for regulators around the world, according to a Berkeley Research Group survey of senior antitrust practitioners across Europe, the ... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
AkzoNobel’s merger with Axalta is approaching the final stages of regulatory review, with planned business sales in the US and Europe the only remedies sought by competition authorities, AkzoNobel chief execut... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was asked by telecommunications groups to strike down 2024 Federal Communications Commission privacy rules because they closely resemble 2016 rules that Congress removed.
October 21, 2026 | Xu Yuan
Plaintiffs suing Politico in a US privacy lawsuit over website tracking made their third attempt to raise a claim under California's wiretapping law after a federal judge previously found the allegations were filed too late.
October 21, 2026 | Mike Swift, Xu Yuan and Madeline Hughes
A New Mexico judge imposed a $25 billion penalty on Meta Platforms for systematically deceiving users about privacy over more than a decade, citing senior executives’ involvement and broken promises after the ... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Nick Robertson
The Judicial Conference of the United States's civil rules committee has not decided whether to pursue nationwide litigation funding disclosure requirements, as limited research and disagreements over the scop... (more story)
The US Patent and Trademark Office cut down on the patent application backlog and application pendency with targeted reforms to the way examiners spend their time, meeting FY26 goals, office leadership said We... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Swedish drugmaker Novavax has failed to overturn a refusal of four “Matrix” trademark applications after the EU General Court on Wednesday found likely confusion with Brill International’s existing "Matrix ocu... (more story)
Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: US prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss charges against Corporacion Financiera Colombiana SA, also known as Corficolombiana, after saying the company has met the terms of its deferred-prosecution agreement.
MLex Summary: Jose Gregorio Suarez, at various times a member of the Nodus Bank board and a general manager of a related finance company, was sentenced to 31 months in prison after pleading guilty to fraud charges.
MLex Summary: Jeffrey Dawkins, the former head of Vector Wealth, has been banned from the UK's financial services industry and fined £270,000 over high-risk bond sales that lost investors £4 million. The Finan... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Neil Roland
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency became the first of four agencies due to adopt GENIUS Act stablecoin rules, though the OCC’s departure from its original proposal drew sharp criticism from banking groups.
MLex Summary: Germany's top court has clarified the conditions under which credit-reference agency Schufa must give individuals information about the process used to calculate a credit score. Judges said the g... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Neil Roland
Following a government report last week on banks’ denial of services to politically conservative clients, US regulators are investigating rule compliance among the banks in the report and are considering rules... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Zack Budryk
The US International Trade Commission should impose antidumping and countervailing duties on railway tank cars and components from Mexico, industry representatives argued at a hearing Wednesday during the prel... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Key questions over the scope of the EU’s carbon border tax expansion and possible temporary exemptions remain unresolved after opening talks, MLex understands. Negotiators outlined their positions but reached ... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Asia, Europe
The EU should pursue a broader trade agreement with China to tackle industrial subsidies and market-access barriers by March, leading European Parliament lawmakers said ahead of a visit they are making to Chin... (more story)
October 20, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia is seeking to turn its large digital consumer market into a source of greater productivity, innovation and domestic technology development while strengthening regulatory certainty for i... (more story)
MLex Summary: Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said on Monday in documents submitted to a Finance Ministry advisory panel that it plans to seek a total of 400 billion yen (around $2.5 billion) i... (more story)
October 16, 2026
MLex Summary: Italy's energy decree — aimed at shielding households and businesses from high electricity prices — will undergo EU state aid scrutiny, after the national government and the European Commission r... (more story)
MLex Summary: The European Parliament and EU governments have reached a provisional agreement to raise the limit on carbon allowances held in the EU’s market stability reserve from 400 million to 700 million a... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Talks on amendments to the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act will begin on Nov. 4, as governments seek more information on a proposed center to help secure supplies. The European Commission plans to circulate a ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The EU aims to conclude negotiations with the UK on a deal to ease food and agricultural trade by aligning health and safety rules, as well as linking their emissions trading systems as a package... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft could be required to negotiate network interconnection terms with European telecom operators and face binding regulatory decisions if talks fail under proposals by the Europe... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Allowing Clearview AI’s appeal over the UK privacy regulator's power to fine it would leave people in the UK with less privacy protection than those in the EU, a London court heard on Wednesday. Advocacy group... (more story)
Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Group, Orange and Telefónica could face lower caps on wholesale data roaming charges under proposals by the European Parliament’s lead telecom lawmaker. Michał Kobosko’s draft report... (more story)