Financial Crime
November 02, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
November 02, 2026 | Xu Yuan
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 30, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Middle East, North America
November 02, 2026
MLex Summary: A Washington federal judge certified a class of Walmart and eBay shoppers to pursue claims that Amazon’s pricing policies drove up prices on rival marketplaces. In a redacted order, US District J... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
A proposed collective lawsuit against Rightmove over alleged excessive and unfair fees is strong and should be approved for trial in its current format, the class representative of the action has told a UK jud... (more story)
MLex Summary: UK digital regulators said they wanted to be "explicit" that existing legal and regulatory frameworks apply to AI agents. The Competition and Markets Authority, the Information Commission’s Offic... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Ministers should accept a late amendment to the UK government's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill requiring annual reviews of which businesses face cybersecurity duties, a senior lawmaker said on Monday as th... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Meta Platforms has defended its advertising safeguards, and said it was reviewing a report alleging that ads on its services promoted “nudifier” apps available through Google and Apple’s app stores. European r... (more story)
MLex Summary: Germany's government has set out a plan towards becoming an AI nation by 2030 including independent analysis and evaluation of high-performance AI systems and models through the country's AI Safe... (more story)
MLex Summary: An executive of M4 Railcar Group, a train car leasing and logistics firm, urged the US Surface Transportation Board to deny Union Pacific Railroad's application to buy its competitor Norfolk Sout... (more story)
MLex Summary: Union Pacific Railroad's refusal to submit a publicly accessible video of its CEO Jim Vena's remarks at a rail shipper conference on Oct. 30, as required by Administrative Law Judge Jenifer J. So... (more story)
MLex Summary: Recreational vehicle component supplier LCI Industries' board of directors has determined that an unsolicited buyout offer from private equity firm Monomoy Capital Partners isn't superior to its ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Meta must face claims that it secretly tracked Android users' web browsing activity and linked it to their Facebook accounts by circumventing privacy protections built into the operating system, ... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Masha Borak
France and Germany will propose strengthening European preference in public procurement under the EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, French AI Minister Anne Le Hénanff said. Criteria such as European ... (more story)
MLex Summary: ING Bank Śląski has lost its challenge to the fine of 18.4 million złoty (around $5 million) imposed on it in 2025 under the EU’s GDPR for the unjustified scanning of identity documents (see here... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
For quantitative trading firms, proprietary source code and algorithms are the business. A three-week criminal trial in New York against Cheuk Fung Richard Ho, scheduled to begin Monday, could offer a rare gli... (more story)
MLex Summary: The New York Times has filed copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims against Brave Software, accusing the company of playing a "central role" in copying and distributin... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Google and Anthropic have joined Japan’s voluntary AI intellectual property transparency code, but said they cannot answer individual inquiries about training material, limiting a route intended to help copyri... (more story)
MLex Summary: The UK's financial regulator said it will look into whether it met its responsibilities under whistleblowing law and followed its own policies and procedures over its interactions with Simon Andr... (more story)
October 31, 2026
MLex Summary: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is releasing information advising that North Korea was responsible for the theft on Oct. 29 of more than $6 billion in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
October 30, 2026
MLex Summary: US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis filed a brief against a government petition for a writ of mandamus from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that would force him to dismiss pending ... (more story)
MLex Summary: EU countries’ agreed text for legislation to better integrate the bloc’s capital markets, the Market Integration and Supervision Package, has been published after being finalized on Oct. 30. The ... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Neil Roland
Europe, North America
California should exempt its federally chartered banks from a 2023 law requiring disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions, US Comptroller Jonathan Gould said, citing an “undue burden” on the firms and a distract... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
A UK businessman living in Hong Kong was charged in the US with laundering money he believed to be the proceeds of computer hacking, and he offered to provide his services if the funds were derived from drug t... (more story)
MLex Summary: Companies supplying the EU market could face higher compliance costs and barriers to entry under digital product passport requirements, according to an Oxera study commissioned by Amazon. Additio... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Jon Menon
The UK government’s decisions on Chinese investment has been characterized by reactivity, inconsistency and opacity, a committee of lawmakers has said as it called for more disclosure on screening decisions an... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | MLex Staff
China has proposed its first five product-specific standards for determining which goods qualify for a 20 percent price preference in government procurement bid evaluations. The drafts set domestic-component c... (more story)
October 27, 2026
MLex Summary: Japan's government-backed chipmaker Rapidus and Indian technology company HCLTech said on Monday that they have opened two semiconductor development centers in Bengaluru and Hubli, India, to supp... (more story)
October 26, 2026
MLex Summary: The Greek Council of State has released the public version of its decision in August to refer to the EU top court a dispute between the Greek state and the newspaper Dimokratia. The dispute regar... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Anna Lauwereys
Five Spanish industrial manufacturers saw their challenge of a state aid measure for power prices dismissed at the EU top court on Thursday. PGI Spain, Berry Superfos Pamplona, Promens Packaging, RPC Envases a... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Louis de Briant
EU plans to ease renewable-hydrogen production rules could lower costs, but uncertainty over future binding targets for demand risks deterring investors. Companies and national officials at European Hydrogen W... (more story)
MLex Summary: xAI has lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the NAACP and environmental groups for allegedly unlawfully operating dozens of unpermitted methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 2 data ce... (more story)
October 29, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Proposed EU requirements preventing electricity from being taxed more heavily than gas faced government opposition Thursday, with several countries arguing that the measures require unanimous approval under a ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms carried ads directing users to “nudifier” apps on Google and Apple’s app stores, according to European research group AI Forensics. Researchers identified a network of 444 associat... (more story)
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The European Telecommunications Standards Institute, or ETSI, is working with South Korean and Japanese standard-setting bodies to develop global AI standards, the organization announced Monday. ... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Freny Patel
India’s telecom regulator has proposed guidelines holding operators accountable for use of artificial intelligence, including outsourced systems, with risk classification, board oversight, supplier checks and ... (more story)