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Antitrust
February 12, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
February 11, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Data Privacy and Security
February 11, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Antitrust View More
February 12, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Amazon has filed an appeal against a reduced €752 million Italian antitrust fine from 2021 for abusing its market power, saying it will continue to defend itself vigorously in the matter.
February 12, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top market regulator has added fresh momentum to efforts to curb the country’s bruising auto price war, finalizing detailed pricing guidelines that draw a clear red line against below-cost sales and de... (more story)
February 12, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
The Australian competition watchdog’s decision to bring just two misuse of market power cases since 2017 reflects a deliberate enforcement strategy, the regulator's top official said. Appearing at a parliament... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 12, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources has promised to intensify support for the development and marketing of new semiconductors optimized for use by artificial intelligence syst... (more story)
February 12, 2026 | Amy Miller and Nick Robertson
North America
Software developers urged a US appeals court to find that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act does not have an identicality requirement, so their proposed class action can proceed against Microsoft, GitHub an... (more story)
February 12, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Following a patent victory against Walmart-owned Flipkart, California-based startup Voicemonk is suing Google in India for infringing artificial intelligence and Android patents. The Delhi High Court has refer... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 12, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top merger-control regulator has for the first time opened an investigation into a below-threshold deal in the internet-platform sector, calling in Meituan’s acquisition of Maiyatian. The disclosure ca... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority's Tribunal has unanimously approved United Airlines' $100 million investment in the Brazilian airline Azul Linhas Aereas, increasing the company’s minority shareholding from... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Latin America
Brazil’s antitrust tribunal has approved, without restrictions, United Airlines’ plan to raise its minority stake in Azul from 2.02 percent to roughly 8 percent — a move tied to Azul’s Chapter 11 restructuring... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 12, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea has handed companies a far sharper set of financial and compliance consequences for mishandling personal information, after parliament on Thursday passed revisions to the Personal Information Prote... (more story)
February 12, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Beijing Sankuai Technology Company, Meituan’s operating arm, alongside Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance and Ping An Health Internet, secured personal-information protection certifications fr... (more story)
February 12, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Luxury fashion houses Louis Vuitton Korea, Christian Dior Couture Korea and Tiffany Korea have been fined a combined 36 billion won ($24.9 million) after South Korea’s privacy watchdog concluded that customer ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 12, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, North America
A US magistrate judge in California limited how a Japanese publisher could use identifying information obtained through a Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoena against Cloudflare, holding that the fast-tra... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would require AI companies to disclose the use of copyrighted works in model training before a new model is deployed. The bill expands upon previou... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
The EU’s top court has reaffirmed that EU trademarks can only be blocked by rights still in force at the time of the final decision on their registration. Experts say that in preventing oppositions based on ri... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Former coal sales executive Charles Hunter Hobson signed off on every invoice submitted by the company’s agent in Egypt, even those that seemed unusual, Hobson's ex-colleague testified Wednesday in his US corruption trial.
February 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Paxful Holdings Inc., an online virtual currency trading platform, was sentenced to pay a criminal penalty of $4 million based on its ability to pay following its guilty plea to conspiracies to p... (more story)
February 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its inquiry into whether Stryker Corp. violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the company said in an annual earnings report.
Financial Services View More
February 12, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK has chosen Orion, HSBC’s blockchain platform, to handle the pilot issuance of digital bonds this year; a move that makes the UK the first G7 nation to issue tokenized sovereign bonds on a blockchain.
February 11, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Just days after Erebor, a Bitcoin-focused digital bank, became the first national bank chartered by the second Trump administration, a major group made up of more traditional banks called for changes in the ch... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The issue of reviewing the EU bank capital framework will be raised by some member states during an informal meeting of EU leaders on competitiveness on Feb. 12 at a castle in eastern Belgium. These informal d... (more story)
Trade View More
February 12, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said it expects more Chinese companies to reach price-undertaking agreements with the EU over electric vehicles, as Brussels backs a “soft landing” to its subsidy cas... (more story)
February 12, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce announced Thursday the final ruling of its antisubsidy probe into certain dairy products from the EU, finding that subsidized imports caused material injury to China’... (more story)
February 12, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia, Europe
China could consider retaliatory trade measures, including antidumping investigations targeting French wine, if the EU advances a reported French proposal to impose tariffs equivalent to about 30 percent on Ch... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission suspects that tax breaks and "preferential financing" handed to Goldwind by banks controlled by the Chinese state may distort competition in the EU, according to an offici... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: An EU in-depth state aid investigation into Lithuania's support to energy company AB Ignitis Gamyba for a strategic reserve for electricity covering the 2013-2018 period is now open for comments.... (more story)
February 10, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
Italian defense company Leonardo requested the EU Commission's approval to acquire the defense unit of European truckmaker Iveco, according to an update on the regulator's website. Iveco Defence is spun off fr... (more story)
Energy View More
February 11, 2026 | Louis de Briant and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
To keep pace in the race to rollout nuclear small modular reactors, Europe needs to prioritize collaboration between governments and manufacturers and focus on the most promising designs, the European Commissi... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU industrial competitiveness has deteriorated across most key performance indicators, according to a report published Wednesday by Deloitte and commissioned by a group of 25 EU industrial sector... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Revenue from the EU’s Emissions Trading System should be redirected more strongly to support industrial decarbonization, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. She ... (more story)
Technology View More
February 12, 2026 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
YouTube advertising during Japan’s recent election cycle drew calls for regulation from an influential minority party leader, who said the deep-pocketed ruling party benefited from an unfair — even unconstitut... (more story)
February 12, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified for over five hours in a Los Angeles trial Wednesday over alleged addictive social media design, facing tough questions about whether Meta prioritized growth over youth s... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Texas is the latest state to sue Snap Inc., claiming it deceptively portrayed its messaging app as being safe for minors while subjecting them to graphic content and product features designed to encourage compulsive use.