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Financial Crime, Financial Services
April 09, 2026 | Neil Roland
Asia, North America
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 09, 2026 | Alex Wilts and Wesley Brown
North America
Trade
April 09, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
Antitrust View More
April 10, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Nexstar Media Group and Tegna must comply with a temporary restraining order on their business integration for another week while US Judge Troy Nunley of the Eastern District of California evalua... (more story)
April 10, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Local TV station operators Nexstar Media Group and Tegna have not presented any "board decks, management presentations, or planning documents dated before August 18, 2025, the date of the merger ... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | Anna Ferrari and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Roxtec, a Swedish cable modules maker, will appear on April 16 before Italy’s highest administrative court to challenge an antitrust fine and seek referral to the EU’s top court. The company denies seeking to ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 10, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe, Latin America, North America
Enforcement of TikTok and X by a Singapore regulator over failures to curb terrorism and child sexual abuse content, respectively, adds to efforts by regulators around the world to confront similar risks. In t... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a public consultation to gather feedback from AI developers to contribute to a study meant to inform the energy-related objectives of the AI Act, and to support... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has released draft rules for digital virtual-human information services, underscoring Beijing’s dual approach of promoting innovation and use while tightening regulatory guardrails around one of the late... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 10, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
Italian communication company Retelit and the Italian Finance Ministry saw their intended joint acquisition of Sparkle cleared by the European Commission. This was the parties' third try to have it approved, f... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungarian company Indamedia’s takeover of Ringier Hungary’s portfolio, including popular media outlet Blikk, poses risks to media pluralism and editorial independence and may affect the internal ... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Eli Lilly and Company’s proposal to acquire 100 percent of the issued shares in Orna Therapeutics Holdings will be reviewed by Australia’s antitrust regulator. In a statement on Thursday, the Aus... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 10, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Health Gorilla, RavillaMed, Mammoth and LlamaLab filed replies in support of dismissing US claims accusing them of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and other laws by improperly accessin... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Bankinter has been fined €240,000 for a data breach with its online banking system Evo Banco, the Spanish watchdog said on Thursday. According to the regulator, a security vulnerability resulted ... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK government has proposed clarifications over how it would use sweeping powers to introduce child safety restrictions on online platforms, in a bid to avoid further parliamentary clashes with lawmakers pu... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 10, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Later in April, the UK’s highest court will consider whether English judges can decide whether the licensing rates offered by patent pools are Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory, in a case brought by Tesl... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China is moving to clarify how standard-essential patent disputes are handled outside the courts, as the country’s top intellectual property regulator signaled plans to develop dedicated rules for such cases.
April 09, 2026 | Steve Scherer
Asia, Europe, North America
SEP licensing pools continued to gain traction, with agreements spanning WiFi, telecom, home security and automotive technologies. AI companies – including Anthropic, IBM, Meta and Microsoft – formed a licensi... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 10, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Credit Suisse, now part of UBS, has escaped criminal prosecution in Switzerland over the $2 billion Mozambique “tuna bonds” loan scandal, after judges ruled that the successor bank couldn’t be held liable for ... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: BNP Paribas has been fined £120,000 by the London Metal Exchange over risk management failures. The LME said the French bank had failed to submit commodity reports in time in September 2024.
April 09, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The US Treasury Department proposed rules that would implement a statutory mandate to apply anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance requirements to stablecoin issuers. Commenters have 60 days to respond.
Financial Services View More
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has set out new rules for companies listed on EU financial markets on when they must disclose market-sensitive information and when they may delay doing so. The measures i... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK government has proposed amendments to the upcoming pensions bill to cap a reserve power that would allow ministers to force pension funds to invest in specific assets. The Labour administration introduc... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority has opened a consultation on plans to simplify bank-reporting rules, aiming to cut data requirements while maintaining oversight. The EBA said the changes would str... (more story)
Trade View More
April 10, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
A full disruption of Russian pipeline flows combined with constrained LNG supply could significantly lower gas storage levels, warned a report of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas, ... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Europe
EU Trade Commissioner Maros Šefčovič said the European Commission is committed to exploring all options to help the silicon-metal industry, including via trade-defense tools. The statement issued Friday comes ... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has changed the 2019 steel safeguard implementing regulation to ensure that rebar is imported under the correct categories reflecting "traditional trade flows," to allevia... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Italian company Camgraphic can have a direct grant worth €211 million to back the development of photonic chips which can be used in aerospace and defense, automotive or telecoms, the European Co... (more story)
April 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission has set up a new bureau to oversee foreign state-owned assets, state media Xinhua reported Wednesday. The new department will ... (more story)
April 08, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Bristol Airport's appeal of a decision of the Welsh Government to grant a subsidy package to Cardiff International Airport has been dismissed by the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Bristol Airport a... (more story)
Energy View More
April 10, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet and Louis de Briant
Europe
The Dutch government said Friday that it will appeal a ruling that said it failed to protect its overseas territories against climate change. The Netherlands’ environment minister said the state has additional... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission reminded member states to lower their storage target to 80 percent early in the season to provide market certainty, the EU gas coordination group said Thursday. EU gas sto... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Europe begins the gas storage refill period with stocks at 28 percent, well below recent years, raising concerns over its ability to rebuild reserves ahead of winter, the European Network of Tran... (more story)
Technology View More
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Criminalizing certain types of harmful online pornography — and holding technology executives liable if platforms fail to remove non-consensual images — are among measures the UK government said ... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Radio jammers, devices that interfere with wireless communications, could be banned in the UK under proposals unveiled on Friday and put out for consultation. The proposal is part of a crackdown ... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australia’s social media restrictions on under-16s are justified by the need to protect children despite burdening political communication, the government told the country’s top court in proceedings brought by... (more story)