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Financial Services
April 07, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Trade
April 07, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Intellectual Property
April 07, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Antitrust View More
April 07, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in Samsung Electronics’ case seeking a determination of reasonable and nondiscriminatory, or RAND, terms for a license to a Netlist pate... (more story)
April 07, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Disney's acquisition of Fubo, Disney/ESPN's deal with the National Football League and ESPN's arrangement with Major League Baseball threaten to raise costs for fans and are harmful for competiti... (more story)
April 07, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil’s competition authority demanded information from major users of Meta’s WhatsApp Business API as part of an ongoing administrative inquiry into the company’s practices. The probe focuses on whether chan... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Nvidia moved to dismiss Ted Entertainment's amended US claims accusing it of improperly scraping YouTube content to train its artificial intelligence model Cosmos, saying that the circumvention p... (more story)
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)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 07, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Merck and Terns Pharmaceuticals will file Hart-Scott-Rodino Act premerger notifications related to their merger "no later than April 14, 2026," according to a US securities filing. The waiting pe... (more story)
April 07, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
The EU’s much-scrutinized system for referring mergers from the national level to Brussels could face fresh questions if Portugal or Spain asks the European Commission to review a small deal in the airport bag... (more story)
April 07, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
MicroStar Logistics’ proposed acquisition of Konvoy’s Australian assets has been referred to an in-depth Phase 2 review under Australia’s new merger laws, with the competition regulator set to investigate whet... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 07, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
Professional social network LinkedIn was accused in a new lawsuit filed in California of invading users’ privacy by implementing intrusive mechanisms that are aimed at preventing abusive practices such as website scraping.
April 07, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
An expert witness testifying for the District of Columbia in its lawsuit against Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica data breach will be heard at a Daubert hearing next month, Associate Judge Robert Okun of ... (more story)
April 07, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Monday shared a note with EU countries on the way forward for negotiating an EU data access framework for banking and financial services that has been deadlocked since ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 07, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
A Chinese court has rejected a copyright infringement claim over a song, finding that a music company acted in good faith after the songwriter tacitly allowed its use of the work for years.
April 07, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
The Osaka District Court rejected a lawsuit by a Buddhist temple priest and his temple seeking to deny copyright infringement and silence an author’s accusations, holding that the priest’s social media posts a... (more story)
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)
Financial Crime View More
April 07, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Former Corsa Coal sales executive Charles Hunter Hobson asked a US judge to set aside his corruption conviction over his role in a scheme to bribe officials of an Egyptian state-owned company for... (more story)
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)
Financial Services View More
April 07, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation jointly issued a final rule that codifies the elimination of reputation risk from their supervisory ... (more story)
April 07, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The EU data access framework for banking and financial services could move forward after months of deadlock, with EU countries expected to provide feedback by April 10 on the way forward, MLex has learned. In ... (more story)
April 07, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian Financial Services Authority, responsible for regulating the country's banking and financial sector, has introduced a new social media guideline for the commercial banking industry... (more story)
Trade View More
April 07, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America, Oceania
The US Court of International Trade dismissed a nonprofit’s lawsuit against the federal government over the lack of an import ban on New Zealand fisheries after both parties agreed the case was moot following ... (more story)
April 07, 2026
North America, Oceania
MLex summary: US Court of International Trade Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves dismissed a lawsuit brought by the nonprofit advocacy group Māui and Hector’s Dolphin Defenders NZ Inc. against the federal government, ... (more story)
April 07, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
Africa, North America
Five US manufacturers petitioned the US government for antisubsidy duty orders on Algerian steel rods, just days after President Donald Trump modified the Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper.
State Aid View More
April 07, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved a Lithuanian scheme that aims to compensate Litgas for supplying a mandatory quantity of liquefied natural gas to a terminal in the port of Klaipėda. The meas... (more story)
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)
Energy View More
April 07, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
Representatives from EU member-state governments will meet on April 14 to further discuss the EU-US critical minerals strategy — aimed at securing supply chains, reducing dependency on China and setting price ... (more story)
April 07, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
EU countries are adopting a patchwork of measures to counter energy price spikes driven by the war in Iran, including tax cuts and fuel subsidies. Analysts warn these interventions risk weakening price signals... (more story)
April 07, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s targeted amendment to heavy-duty vehicle CO2 rules provides some flexibility for manufacturers through 2029, said the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association ACEA on Tuesday, welc... (more story)
Technology View More
April 07, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: New research on children’s online privacy has prompted the UK data protection regulator to launch a campaign Tuesday warning of risks and encouraging parents to talk to children about the topic. ... (more story)
April 07, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippines will not ban gaming platform Roblox despite mounting concern over online abuse and sexual exploitation of children. Instead, authorities are shifting toward stricter child-safety ... (more story)
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)