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Data Privacy and Security

September 14, 2026 | Xu Yuan

North America

Facebook’s Sandberg denies knowledge of Cambridge Analytica details
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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

September 14, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

North America

Paramount, Warner say deal will boost film output, streaming competition

Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, Technology

September 11, 2026 | Alex Wilts and Madeline Hughes

North America

US courts keeping close eye on Big Tech privilege claims, evidence preservation

Antitrust View More

Dutch egg-cartel fines largely upheld by trade and industry appeals court

September 15, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The Dutch Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal mostly upheld fines imposed on three companies for coordinating industrial-egg purchase prices, dividing suppliers and exchanging sensitive informati... (more story)

Jeronimo Martins Polska to appeal €120m Polish no-poach fine

September 15, 2026 | Anna Ferrari

Europe

Jeronimo Martins Polska, owner of Poland's largest supermarket chain Biedronka, is set to appeal a €120 million Polish antitrust fine over a no-poach agreement involving drivers serving its distribution center... (more story)

Bulgarian lawyer, Malta Deputy State Advocate to be judges on EU General Court

September 15, 2026 | Jean Comte and Lewis Crofts

Europe

Bulgarian lawyer Ivan Stoynev and Malta's Deputy State Advocate Andrea Buhagiar are set to be approved as judges for the EU's lower tier General Court on Sept. 30 by the bloc's member states, serving until Aug... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

UK's AI Security Institute to appear in parliament to discuss 'existential threat'

September 15, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The head of the UK's AI Security Institute has been asked to appear in parliament to give evidence on the risks of AI developments on Oct. 13 amid growing calls for AI regulation in Britain. In a... (more story)

AI used as news source by one in five UK adults, media regulator says

September 15, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: One in five UK adults use AI chatbots such as ChatGPT to follow the news, media regulator Ofcom found in its latest annual report on news consumption habits, published Tuesday. But 56 percent of ... (more story)

AI safety challenges are taken seriously by government, Australian minister says

September 15, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

Oceania

An Australian minister has said the government takes artificial intelligence safety challenges seriously while noting the role of the Australian AI Safety Institute. In an event on Monday in Canberra, Australi... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

EP Group files Fnac Darty takeover for EU approval

September 15, 2026 | Jean Comte

Europe

EP Group has requested European Commission approval for its intended acquisition of Fnac Darty, according to an update on the regulator's register of deals. The regulator has set a provisional deadline of Oct.... (more story)

Co-op works on remedies to ease UK concerns over Southern deal

September 15, 2026 | Jon Menon

Europe

Co-operative Group is working on remedies after conceding that its merger with Southern Co-operative Group may reduce competition in some UK convenience stores and prepaid funeral service sites. The Competitio... (more story)

Dream Finders-Beazer Homes deal granted US early termination

September 15, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Dream Finders Homes and Beazer Homes USA have received antitrust clearance from the US competition authorities to close their $2.2 billion deal. The agencies granted early termination of the stat... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Platforms face fees, reporting duties under draft EU Kids Act

September 15, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Online platforms would face new child-safety reporting and fee obligations under a leaked draft of the EU Kids Act, seen by MLex, with designated very large social-media and video-sharing services required to ... (more story)

Securitas Direct fined €100,000 in Spain over paid rights number

September 15, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Alarm provider Securitas Direct was fined €100,000 by Spain’s data protection authority for signage at video-surveilled premises that directed people seeking access and objection rights to a prem... (more story)

Thailand prepares social-media platforms for Nov. 1 advertiser-verification rules

September 15, 2026 | Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj

Asia

Social-media platforms operating in Thailand will have to verify the identities of advertisers behind paid content from Nov. 1, under rules aimed at making online advertising traceable and helping authorities ... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

China top court finds unfair competition in Lukfook trade-name dispute

September 15, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China’s top court has held that a business can commit unfair competition by registering and using a corporate name similar to another party’s trademark if it is likely to mislead consumers, even when it uses t... (more story)

US judge denies USPTO more time to defend whistleblower report redactions

September 14, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

North America

The clock is ticking on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s deadline to explain its redactions to an anonymous report alleging an Intel-linked effort to invalidate VLSI Technology patents before the Patent Tr... (more story)

US presses Supreme Court to leave IPR criteria to USPTO discretion

September 14, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

North America

A filing by the federal government in support of the US Patent and Trademark Office’s “settled expectations” policy goes beyond patent age to argue that because Congress never required inter partes review inst... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Businessman pleads guilty in US to illicit exports of aviation parts to Russia

September 14, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Andrei Samuilovski, who has citizenship in Estonia, Switzerland and Russia, pleaded guilty over his role in a scheme to illegally export US-origin aviation and aerospace parts to Russia in violat... (more story)

VTB Bank sanctioned by US over Iran ties

September 14, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned prominent Russian financial institution VTB Bank Public Joint Stock Company for its involvement in Iranian sanction... (more story)

Former Nodus bank chief should get up to 15 years in prison, US says

September 14, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Tomas Niembro Concha, a co-owner of Nodus Bank who served as its president and chief executive, should serve 151 to 188 months in prison for leading a scheme to fraudulently obtain nearly $25 mil... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US House Republican 'bullish' on crypto bill due for Senate vote Tuesday

September 14, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

A senior US House Republican is "bullish" that a cryptocurrency procedural bill due to come up for a US Senate vote Tuesday will pass and eventually be adopted by that chamber before going to the House to face... (more story)

States call on Congress to preserve ability to protect investors from crypto scams

September 14, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: New York Attorney General Letitia James led a bipartisan coalition of 17 other attorneys general in opposing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (Clarity Act), according to a statement. In a let... (more story)

Crispin Odey loses court bid to overturn UK financial services ban

September 14, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Europe

High-profile UK hedge-fund manager Crispin Odey has lost his bid to overturn his ban from the UK’s financial services industry but has seen a £1.8 million fine modestly reduced. A court ruling refusing his app... (more story)

Trade View More

Wider EU carbon tax, export fund backed by EU lawmakers

September 15, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU carbon border adjustment mechanism, or CBAM, would be extended to downstream steel and aluminum goods under a European Parliament negotiating position that also tightens anti-circumvention... (more story)

Global trade disruption hurts smaller economies most, WTO annual report warns

September 15, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The erosion of multilateral trade cooperation could cut global gross domestic product by up to 6.9 percent and global exports by 26.9 percent, the World Trade Organization has warned, with smalle... (more story)

EU-Thailand aiming to wrap up trade deal talks by end of year, ambassador says

September 15, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet

Asia, Europe

The EU and Thailand hope to wrap up talks on a free trade agreement by the end of the year, with a final tenth negotiation round due to begin Sept. 28, the Ambassador of Thailand to the EU has said. The EU has... (more story)

State Aid View More

Vindenergi challenging Danish aid for wind farms project at EU court

September 14, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Energy company Dansk Vindenergi is challenging the Danish government's €5 billion plan to back the construction and operation of the Hesselø and North Sea I Mid offshore wind farms at an EU court... (more story)

Czech TV operators ask EU judges to re-allow cancelled state aid

September 14, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, three Czech digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, have asked the EU General Court to overturn a decision by the ... (more story)

China seeks information from French companies over EU subsidies

September 10, 2026

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce has sought information from several French companies operating in China about subsidies received from the EU and its member states. Ministry spokesperson Huang Ling s... (more story)

Energy View More

EU countries challenge European Commission plan to tax electricity less than gas

September 15, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Nine EU countries have told the European Commission they do not agree with its plans to tax electricity less than gas in planned legislation to boost the bloc's use of electricity and cut imports of fossil fue... (more story)

European truckmakers seek three-year delay to EU 2030 CO2 compliance deadline

September 14, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU's 2030 CO2 compliance timeline for heavy-duty vehicles should be delayed by three years, European truck manufacturers said in a statement Monday. In a press release published by the automo... (more story)

Sectoral renewable-energy targets could be scrapped by EU in post-2030 overhaul

September 14, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Several sector-specific renewable-energy targets would be scrapped under the European Commission's preferred approach for overhauling the EU Renewable Energy Directive after 2030, according to a draft impact a... (more story)

Technology View More

Indonesia plans fines of up to 6% of global revenue for child-safety breaches

September 15, 2026 | Roffie Kurniawan

Asia

Indonesia is preparing fines of up to 6 percent of global revenue for large digital platforms that breach its online child-protection rules, with the proposed formula now before the Finance Ministry after publ... (more story)

Indonesia says 28m children protected under online-safety rules, but gaps remain

September 15, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Indonesia's online child-protection rules have resulted in additional safeguards for about 28 million children's accounts during the first six months of implementation, although some digital plat... (more story)

China updates AI safety framework to address agent, embodied-AI risks

September 15, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China has expanded its artificial-intelligence safety framework to address risks from computing infrastructure, AI agents and embodied intelligence, reflecting growing concern that increasingly autonomous syst... (more story)