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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 13, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Anthony Whelan, a long-serving EU official, will take over leadership of the European Commission’s powerful competition directorate. Teresa Ribera said his “professionalism” would be key in upholding “objectiv... (more story)
April 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s antitrust watchdog is commissioning a study on the digital advertising sector, with the project set to run for six months from the contract date. The Korea Fair Trade Commission sai... (more story)
April 13, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
A antitrust penalty in Jiangxi’s explosives sector has brought a new province into view in an interprovincial industry pact, as a series of cases reveal similar conduct across multiple provinces. The case, rel... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 13, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has released finalized interim measures governing anthropomorphic AI-interaction services, setting out a “prudent and inclusive” regulatory framework with tiered supervision, as authorities seek to balan... (more story)
April 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee met with Zhuang Rongwen, director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, or CAC, on Sunday, according to a government press release. The two witnessed the s... (more story)
April 13, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Tech companies have asked EU policymakers reviewing a simplification package for AI rules to give them more time for implementation. In a joint statement published on Monday, 15 industry associat... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 10, 2026 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
Hungarian media group Indamedia’s takeover of Ringier has prompted the first opinion by a new EU media board, using its own-initiative review powers ahead of April 12 elections. The board flagged risks to medi... (more story)
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)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China has released finalized interim measures governing anthropomorphic AI interaction services, including companionship AI, setting out a “prudent and inclusive” regulatory framework with tiered... (more story)
April 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Cyberspace Administration and the National Railway Administration have summoned seven major online-travel platforms, including Trip.com, Qunar, Meituan and Alibaba’s Fliggy, over train-ti... (more story)
April 12, 2026
Europe, Oceania
MLex Summary: More than 60 percent of Australian children continue to use social media despite a ban on under-16s coming into force last December, according to polling by UK campaign group the Molly Rose Found... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 10, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
A recent fair-use decision in the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit could show a pathway to victory for artificial intelligence companies trying to fend off copyright infringement lawsuits, but applyin... (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)
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)
Financial Crime View More
April 11, 2026 | Martin Coyle and Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK hedge-fund manager Crispin Odey has dropped a multimillion-pound libel lawsuit against the Financial Times newspaper over sexual misconduct claims, which he has denied. Odey is currently embroiled in UK cou... (more story)
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.
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 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Chinese Premier Li Qiang chaired a meeting in Beijing on Friday with economists and entrepreneurs to assess economic conditions, according to a statement released by the government website. Li sa... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit appeared mostly skeptical Friday of a Turkish steel producer’s claim that the International Trade Commission erred when it decided against reopening the record t... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
A three-judge panel at the US Court of International Trade struggled Friday to nail down how exactly a balance-of-payments deficit is meant to be calculated and measured for the purposes of invoking Section 122 tariffs.
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 | 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 | 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)
Technology View More
April 11, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Artificial intelligence is unlikely to replace judicial decision making but the technology may help judges by creating efficiencies, and the judiciary should be open to using it, US District Judge Amit Mehta —... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Uber Technologies will have to defend claims that it used deceptive design to lock users into its Uber One subscription, as a federal judge allowed most of a case by the US Federal Trade Commission to move forward.
April 10, 2026 | Clayton Vickers and Khushita Vasant
North America
Agri Stats told a US federal judge Friday that the company has had intensive negotiations to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice and six states, with counsel for the data broker sa... (more story)