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Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
February 13, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Financial Services
February 12, 2026 | Neil Roland
Asia, North America
Antitrust
February 12, 2026 | Chris May, Alex Wilts, Claude Marx, Khushita Vasant, Ilana Kowarski and Clayton Vickers
North America
Antitrust View More
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Euro Car Parks has been fined £473,000 by the UK antitrust regulator after failing to comply with a notice to provide information. The fine is the first time that the Competition and Markets Auth... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Belgian competition authority has imposed bid-rigging fines totaling almost €12 million on the postal incumbent Bpost, on rival provider PPP, and on DPG Media and Mediahuis. The collusion rel... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation on Friday published a final version of its antitrust guidelines for online platforms. The draft guidelines were released for public consultation... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 13, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU governments have refined the AI Act’s centralized enforcement model in a new redraft of the legislative amendments, consolidating the AI Office’s powers while adding due process guarantees. The text clarifi... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
Japan’s government has directed Chinese tech company ByteDance to act on illegal content made and distributed on its platforms that appears to contain copyrighted material from Japanese creators, Economic Secu... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Chinese internet regulators are launching a one-month crackdown to address public concerns about the online ecosystem ahead of the Spring Festival, according to the Cyberspace Administration of C... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 13, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
Telecom Italia told investors and analysts that the sale of its subsidiary won't close by the end of the first quarter, as initially planned, but could still be finalized this year, MLex has learned. The deal ... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Views on Daily Mail and General Trust’s planned acquisition of Telegraph Media Group are being sought by the UK regulators as they probe the deal. The Competition and Markets Authority and Ofcom ... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved Universal Music Group's acquisition of Downtown subject to a divestment of Curve, Downtown's royalty accounting platform. Regulators had been concerned that U... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A common approach to identify, evaluate and address cybersecurity risks was published in new guidance to safeguard Information and Communication Technologies supply chains by the European Commiss... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK online safety regulator should face an expanded legal challenge over its transparency practices as campaign group Movement for an Open Web has applied to join a court case questioning Ofcom’s refusals t... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
With just a week remaining before new rules in India take effect, online platforms are scrambling to determine whether they have sufficient time to prepare for what many view as a fundamental regulatory shift,... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 13, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea is accelerating its push to develop independent foundation models as a strategic move to secure AI sovereignty and reduce reliance on foreign systems, a senior official told MLex. The government ai... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
7-Eleven has lost its bid to secure the “Big Bite” trademark in India after the Madras High Court ruled that online visibility and global registrations do not outweigh a local company’s prior domestic use.
February 12, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Asia, North America
Tech giants are moving towards launching content licensing marketplaces for AI training, with Microsoft announcing plans and Amazon reportedly preparing its own licensing platform. Several multibillion-dollar ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 13, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Complexities in the now overturned conviction of former UBS trader Tom Hayes demonstrate the difficulties juries face in hearing complex fraud trials, said a former senior judge who has recommended ditching th... (more story)
February 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
Huawei Technologies could try to fend off a fourth superseding indictment in a long-running US case alleging that the Chinese telecommunications giant had engaged in racketeering conspiracy, trade-secret theft... (more story)
February 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Ramil Ventura Palafox, the chief executive of PGI Group, a multi-level marketing and bitcoin trading firm, was sentenced to 20 years in prison following his conviction on wire fraud and money lau... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 12, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said he has asked the White House to appoint two Democrats to fill the open seats at the agency, but “it takes two to tango.” The SEC has had a 3-0 Repub... (more story)
February 12, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday called for EU countries to agree to legal proposals by the end of the year, which would better integrate the bloc’s capital markets. If cou... (more story)
February 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission has finalized a consent order that requires building services contractor Adamas Amenity Services LLC and its affiliated businesses to cease their enforcement of no... (more story)
Trade View More
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene resins, or ABS, from Korea and Taiwan into the EU will be subject to definitive dumping tariffs of up to 7.5 and 21.7 percent respectively, the European... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Dumping duties in place on imports of birch plywood from Russia into the bloc will expire on Nov. 10, unless a request for a review reaches the European Commission. Such a request must set out su... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The EU is considering opening up its controversial plan for member states to give preference to European-made inputs in certain sectors to countries outside the bloc, MLex has learned. The latest draft of legi... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark secured European Commission approval on Friday for a €1.04 billion state aid plan aimed at enabling landowners to voluntarily withdraw agricultural or forestry land from production to cu... (more story)
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)
Energy View More
February 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s parliament approved late on Thursday a special law to promote the development of small modular reactors, or SMRs, as electricity demand rises due to artificial intelligence and data... (more story)
February 12, 2026
Africa, Europe
MLex Summary: The EU and Algeria held their sixth High-Level Energy Dialogue in Algiers on Feb. 12, reaffirming their strategic partnership. They reviewed cooperation on natural gas, methane reduction, renewab... (more story)
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)
Technology View More
February 13, 2026
Asia
MLex summary: The Philippine Department of Information and Communications Technology said it has secured commitments from Meta Platforms to strengthen safeguards against online harms, following talks with comp... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Gail Slater's departure from the US Department of Justice on Thursday ended a nearly year-long turf war and stripped the Antitrust Division down to three political appointees in the front office.
February 13, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
A former top US Department of Justice antitrust official said Thursday that merging companies must prioritize winning deal approval “on the merits,” warning that lobbying won’t rescue a weak case.