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Financial Services
April 06, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
April 02, 2026 | Madeline Hughes, Maria Dinzeo, Amy Miller and Emma Whitford
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 02, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger and Wesley Brown
North America
Antitrust View More
April 07, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission and a group of states must enumerate “each and every remedy and form of relief” they intend to seek in their monopolization case against Amazon, a Washington federal judge ruled Monday.
April 07, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
There is “an absence of empirical evidence” of harmed competition in the live ticketing market, an economist testifying for Live Nation told jurors on Monday during a high-profile antitrust trial. Dennis Carlt... (more story)
April 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A Washington federal judge ordered the US Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of states suing Amazon for alleged antitrust violations to enumerate “each and every remedy and form of relief” ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 06, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
US federal workers are being told they can log back into Anthropic's Claude for Government service in the wake of a ruling by a California federal judge who granted an injunction blocking the Defense Departmen... (more story)
April 06, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Washington state is rolling back a sales tax carveout for replacing data center equipment after Governor Bob Ferguson signed SB 6231 into law last week. Washington is just one of several US states this year re... (more story)
April 03, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s cyberspace regulator has released draft measures to govern digital virtual-human services, aiming to promote healthy development and standardize their use. The proposal requires providers... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 07, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: A proposal by eBay Inc. to acquire 100 percent of the shares in Depop from Etsy, will be reviewed by Australia’s competition watchdog. In a statement on Tuesday, the Australian Competition & Cons... (more story)
April 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Neurocrine Biosciences has agreed to acquire Soleno Therapeutics in an all-cash transaction at $53 per share, representing a total approximate value of $2.9 billion, the companies announced. The ... (more story)
April 06, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Pan Pacific International Holdings has agreed to acquire Tokyo-area supermarket operator Olympic Group through a share exchange, as the Don Quijote discount chain operator seeks to expand its ret... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 06, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Despite the US Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidance on deploying age-verification technology to identify users under 13 years old in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, companie... (more story)
April 06, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia, North America
The Office of the United States Trade Representative has labelled India’s content takedowns “politically motivated” trade barriers, and said stricter tech rules, weak trade secret protection, data restrictions... (more story)
April 06, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s privacy watchdog said it will conduct a preemptive inspection of personal data protection practices in five sectors that outsource customer service operations, following a recent ca... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 06, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
Kirti Gupta, vice president and chief economist at Cornerstone Research, told MLex the globally fractured standard-essential patent enforcement environment has served to further increase legal costs and bring ... (more story)
April 06, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s cabinet approved a bill to amend its Plant Variety Protection and Seed Act for submission to parliament that would allow breeders to block unauthorized exports of new plant varieties before registratio... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A Tokyo court dismissed a trademark infringement suit over a “dinosaur test” label, finding that the plaintiff’s registered logo had to be assessed as a unified design rather than broken into its textual eleme... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 06, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A US judge said Monday that he will throw out the conviction of a Texas-based Mexican businessman for paying bribes to officials of Mexico’s state-owned oil company in exchange for contracts. US District Judge... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The Trump administration has submitted for court approval a new plan to cut the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, this time by about two-thirds of the agency’s employees rather than an initial plan to r... (more story)
April 03, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, pressed Richard Teng, co-chief executive officer of Binance, on concerns the company may have provided misrepresentations or misleading... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 06, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s financial watchdog said Monday an emergency inspection of the country’s major virtual-asset exchanges, conducted for about a month from Feb. 10 to Mar. 6 after Bithumb’s mistaken pa... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued three states over what the agency described as its exclusive authority to oversee booming prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket. The CFTC, led by Cha... (more story)
April 02, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced a supplemental consent order against Nishad Singh, the former head of engineering at FTX, imposing disgorgement of $3.7 million, requiring c... (more story)
Trade View More
April 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission initiated antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigations into oil country tubular goods from Austria, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates.
April 06, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian anti-dumping committee at the trade ministry said it has launched a sunset review antidumping investigation into imports of hot-rolled coil alloy products from China. In a statemen... (more story)
April 03, 2026
Africa, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission determined that US industry was materially injured through dumped imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar from Algeria. The Commerce Department will issue ... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 31, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Zenobē Energy has filed a second challenge over a subsidy decision made by the UK energy regulator, according to the UK antitrust tribunal, which broadens out arguments made in the first. The cas... (more story)
March 31, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the French government's plan to support Électricité de France with the construction and operation of six nuclear reactors. The ne... (more story)
March 31, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania's planned increase in restructuring aid to €2.86 billion for state-owned lignite mining and power generation company CE Oltenia and extended until the end of 2029 is open for feedback for... (more story)
Energy View More
April 06, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippine Competition Commission said in a policy dialogue with the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines that its market study found generator-affiliated retail electri... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU steelmakers are urging the European Commission to widen the scope of its carbon border levy, to tighten anti-circumvention rules, and to delay any move to include pre-consumer steel scrap as a precursor. Ad... (more story)
April 03, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU steelmakers are calling for a broader extension of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to downstream goods, tougher anti-circumvention measures and the exclusion of pre-consumer steel scrap... (more story)
Technology View More
April 06, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian ministry of communication and digital affairs has reprimanded the Steam platform, one of the world’s largest digital-distribution platforms developed by Valve Corporation, for prov... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Live entertainment venues are asking for more money from ticketing providers due to a rise in competition in the sector, a Ticketmaster executive testified in the company's defense on Friday in a high-profile antitrust trial.
April 03, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Florida’s attorney general told a federal judge that NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association cannot establish that the purported unconstitutional applications of a state ... (more story)