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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 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Major road-cleaning companies in Japan are set to face antitrust corrective orders, and two are likely to be fined roughly 500 million yen ($3.3 million) for rigging bids to clean up projects for Tokyo’s Metro... (more story)
January 29, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s competition watchdog said it will strengthen its anonymous tip-off center for unfair practices in subcontracting, distribution, dealerships and franchising, targeting "hidden" misco... (more story)
January 29, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia’s Horticulture Code, which regulates trade between growers and traders of wholesale unprocessed fruit and vegetables, will be reviewed to identify any competition issues, a minister has... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 29, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT announced on Thursday its first comprehensive plan to promote quantum science and technology and the quantum industry, along with a first basic plan to e... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Former Google engineer Linwei Ding isn't guilty of stealing trade secrets to build artificial intelligence supercomputers and data centers in China because he could not and did not intend to replicate Google’s... (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)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: President Donald Trump's August 2025 decision to fire then-US Surface Transportation Board Commissioner Robert Primus — who subsequently filed a wrongful termination lawsuit — was not motivated b... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Charter Communications and Cox Communications reached a settlement with the Connecticut Attorney General’s office that should allow their merger to move forward in the state once the Public Utilities Regulator... (more story)
January 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Charter Communications and Cox Communications reached a settlement with the Connecticut attorney general's office over concerns their proposed merger will harm consumers. The agreement, now befor... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 29, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission said late Wednesday that it has kicked off the triennial review of the guideline on protecting national-identification numbers. The Specific Per... (more story)
January 29, 2026 | Mike Swift
Europe, North America
As Meta Platforms faces key trials in California and New Mexico in February on allegations that the addictive design of Facebook and Instagram caused a mental health crisis among US teens, the company's leader... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned Wednesday that the growing practice of using consumer data to personalize prices may violate California’s privacy law, announcing an investigative sweep of business... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 29, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia, Europe
The India-EU Free Trade Agreement pressures India to strengthen the protection of intellectual property to attract investment, while testing its ability to balance innovation, public health priorities and its ... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Reincubate, a London-based software company, accused Apple in a US antitrust complaint of ripping it off by copying its innovative technology Camo and then using its walled garden ecosystem to push Reincubate ... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board processed more appeals, oppositions and cancellations than ever last year, even with a slightly smaller staff. Judges and interlocutory att... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 28, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A former retail banker at a TD Bank branch in Florida pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from his role in a scheme to launder funds from the US to Colombia through automated teller machines.
January 28, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A former Pennsylvania coal sales executive can’t discuss an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on US anti-bribery enforcement at his upcoming corruption trial, a US judge has ruled. “I understand... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A former Nigerian oil minister facing bribery-related charges was secretly recorded telling an oil executive that she would "escort" him and others to jail as their working relationship broke down, a London co... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Crypto trading platform Coinbase has seen some its ads banned by the UK's advertising regulator because they had trivialized the risks associated with cryptocurrency investment. In a statement, t... (more story)
January 27, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador spoke at an agency workshop on noncompete agreements, saying such agreements can be anticompetitive but that a one-size-fits-all remedy can't be applied ... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Cryptocurrency money laundering reached $82 billion in 2025, a more-than-eightfold increase since 2020, according to research released on Tuesday by the blockchain analytics company Chainalysis. After emerging... (more story)
Trade View More
January 28, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
The imposition of tariffs last April failed to deter import of unfairly traded fatty acids from Malaysia and Indonesia, US producer Vantage Specialty Chemicals told the US Commerce Department.
January 28, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: US chemical company Vantage Specialty Chemicals petitioned the US Department of Commerce and the US International Trade Commission to impose antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders on imports of ... (more story)
January 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said after a meeting with Mexican Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard that both countries agreed to start talks on "structural and strategic reforms" as par... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
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)
Energy View More
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: More than 110 European cleantech companies and investors have urged the European Commission to introduce “Made in Europe” requirements in the planned Industrial Accelerator Act, warning that dela... (more story)
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission will invest almost €650 million to support 14 cross-border energy projects, focusing on electricity grids and hydrogen infrastructure. In a statement on Wednesday, the com... (more story)
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)
Technology View More
January 28, 2026 | Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
EU and German competition laws to control the power of Big Tech companies are starting to have “an impact” even if it will take time for them to become fully effective, according to the head of the German comp... (more story)
January 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: TechFreedom filed a brief with a US appeals court in support of NetChoice’s challenge to Arkansas’ social media age-verification law, saying it picks winners and losers in the marketplace of idea... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The online safety debate in the UK is shifting from regulating platforms to proposals for banning under-16s from social media after lawmakers backed an amendment proposing a ban. But new data on harms linked t... (more story)