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: 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)
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)
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 | Patricia Figueiredo
Broader AI regulation must preserve the UK's access to frontier models needed for security testing and should not be added to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, ministers told lawmakers this week. Cyber m... (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)
MLex Summary: NRG Fleet Services’ completed acquisition of rival Specialist Fleet Services is facing a UK antitrust review, the Competition and Markets Authority has said. The CMA served a freeze order on the ... (more story)
Asia
MLex Summary: Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission on Wednesday blocked Grab's planned acquisition of Foodpanda's Taiwan operations, citing concerns that Uber's 13.1 percent stake in Grab would reduce competitive in... (more story)
MLex Summary: New Mexico District Judge Francis J. Mathew ordered Meta Platforms to pay the State of New Mexico $25 billion in penalties following a jury finding that the social media company violated the New ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The PHP Foundation said it had released two fixes to "critical vulnerabilites" that could allow hackers to access servers running PHP, a scripting language that powers websites around the world. ... (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 | 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)
October 20, 2026 | Steve Scherer
Asia, Europe, North America
Roche’s pact with Hansoh underscores China’s growing importance in supplying experimental medicines, supported by rapid development and greater trust in its science. Hansoh will receive $400 million upfront an... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Jon Menon
Meta has been asked by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to explain changes to its commercial terms that publishers fear would authorize the scraping of their websites, as the regulator considers poss... (more story)
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 20, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
A US magistrate judge rejected motions for reconsideration from multiple prior judicial rulings against a former Venezuelan vice minister of energy and the ex-president of a subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-... (more story)
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 20, 2026 | Martin Coyle
ING has been prevented from immediately terminating its banking relationship with energy giant Gazprom, after a Dutch court ruled it must give the Russian company more time to find another EU lender. Gazprom h... (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)
MLex Summary: EU tariffs in place to counter dumping and subsidization of imports of solar glass from China have been repealed following an expiry review opened last year, the European Commission said Wednesda... (more story)
October 20, 2026
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 | 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)
Booking.com is under an in-depth EU probe over whether it violated online platform rules by failing to tackle fraudulent and unauthorized accommodation listings, failing to protect users from phishing scams th... (more story)