Data Privacy and Security
October 19, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 19, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski and Khushita Vasant
Intellectual Property
October 19, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Europe
October 20, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's Supreme People's Court has clarified that vertical agreements with ancillary clauses addressing competition between the parties should, in principle, still be assessed under the framework for vertical ... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Genta Nakanishi
Japanese pet food distributor Vets Choice Japan was raided Tuesday by Japan's antitrust watchdog over suspected resale price maintenance involving its premium Select Balance pet food products, MLex understands... (more story)
October 20, 2026
MLex Summary: Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism said at an expert panel's first meeting Monday that it will examine measures to prevent bid rigging in major condominium repair pro... (more story)
MLex Summary: Indonesia is preparing regulations to encourage foreign data-center investors to collaborate with national and regional businesses, Coordinating Minister for Downstreaming and Energy Transition B... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Australia’s online-safety watchdog said regulatory gaps limit its ability to remove harmful nonsexual AI deepfakes unless they meet the high threshold for serious adult cyber abuse. The proposed digital duty-o... (more story)
MLex Summary: Indonesia’s planned AI ethics rules will set guidelines on data protection, transparency and human oversight without imposing restrictions that could hamper innovation, Communications and Digital... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Dealmakers will get more EU guidance on how to prove their mergers lead to benefits that wouldn’t otherwise materialize through alternative growth plans or industry arrangements, under a revised policy documen... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Jon Menon
Asia, Europe
Anglo American still expects to complete its merger with Canada’s Teck Resources by March 2027, it has said in a regulatory filing. The deal has yet to be approved by China’s competition regulator. The company... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Jean Comte and Anna Lauwereys
Representatives for Vivendi are taking part in a confidential hearing on Tuesday as the French media giant battles fresh EU allegations it infringed the bloc's merger law. At the heart of the case is a claim t... (more story)
China’s internet regulator has launched a process to identify platforms with large numbers of underage users or significant influence on minors, advancing efforts to strengthen child protection and platform ac... (more story)
MLex Summary: South Korea will expand mandatory cybersecurity disclosures to all companies listed on the KOSPI and KOSDAQ stock exchanges from January 2027, regardless of revenue, under a revised enforcement d... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Freny Patel
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of India has established that access to the internet is a fundamental right guaranteed to every individual, including children, rejecting blanket age-based restrictions ... (more story)
China's iconic juice maker Huiyuan is at the center of an escalating trademark dispute, with its original operating group announcing plans to stop using the brand after affiliated companies were ordered to pay... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Four US Supreme Court justices recused themselves from review of a copyright decision on the global nature of termination notices, leaving the court without a quorum and resulting in the affirmance of the US C... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
The US State Department sanctioned the business network of a former Google software engineer who is appealing his conviction for stealing the tech giant’s artificial intelligence technology trade secrets.
October 19, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
AI providers face no immediate move to widen the UK financial regulator’s remit, despite growing use of chatbots for financial advice. The Financial Conduct Authority is focusing on clarifying how existing rul... (more story)
October 16, 2026 | Xu Yuan
A California federal judge denied motions by Aliaksandr Klimenka to exclude evidence for an upcoming trial involving the government’s allegations over his involvement with BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange but gav... (more story)
October 16, 2026
MLex Summary: Legal groups and scholars argued that excessive financial penalties are unconstitutional in amicus briefs supporting FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried's petition for certiorari before the US Supreme Court .
October 19, 2026
MLex Summary: More stringent transparency and supervisory rules would apply to banks that execute trades internally — known as systematic internalizers — under a compromise proposed by key EU lawmaker Markus F... (more story)
MLex Summary: The UK needs to be at the forefront of the safe adoption of AI in financial services, the chief data officer at the Financial Conduct Authority said on Monday. Jessica Rusu said that AI providers... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Coupang Financial faces potential sanctions over allegedly excessive interest rates charged to online sellers, as South Korea’s financial regulator said it expects to conclude its ongoing investigation and dec... (more story)
MLex Summary: India-based ceramic-tiles supplier Varmora Granito will retain the 7.3 percent dumping duty rate for cooperating, non-sampled companies on exports to the EU, the European Commission confirmed Tue... (more story)
Chinese exporters facing customs scrutiny over potentially controlled dual-use goods will have clearer review timelines and a procedure for seeking the release of unrelated shipments under new rules issued Mon... (more story)
MLex Summary: EU imports of heavyweight thermal paper from South Korea will remain subject to dumping tariffs of 15.8 percent, the European Commission said Tuesday. The five-year extension follows an expiry re... (more story)
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)
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: EU industrial companies receiving free carbon allowances based on their heat and fuel use could benefit from nearly 100 million additional allowances between now and 2030, under proposals adopted... (more story)
MLex Summary: About €239 million in EU grants will support circular-economy, climate and clean-energy projects, the European Commission announced on Monday. Funding includes nearly €91 million for circular eco... (more story)
MLex Summary: A small modular nuclear reactor and a direct air carbon capture and storage project were selected Monday for EU Innovation Fund support for the first time, among 77 projects earmarked for €3.4 bi... (more story)
MLex Summary: TikTok, Roblox and Snapchat will be covered by a new law that bans social media use for children under 16, the Norwegian government announced on Monday. The law will target harmful platforms, inc... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Mike Swift
With a first bellwether trial over how social media design affected US schools just over three months away, two school districts in Arizona and South Carolina are trying to exclude evidence of racial conflict,... (more story)
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube, and the Charleston County School District stipulated that the defendant social media companies agreed to not offer evidence during an approaching trial ... (more story)