Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence
October 26, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Chris May
North America
Financial Crime, Financial Services, Trade
October 26, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 26, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
October 26, 2026
Europe, Latin America
MLex Summary: Brazilian manufacturer Iochpe-Maxion will book a €15 million provision amid an ongoing German antitrust proceeding involving indirect subsidiary Maxion Wheels, according to a regulatory disclosur... (more story)
Europe
MLex Summary: Mastercard and Visa have been targeted by fresh proposed UK collective actions over alleged inflated card fees, according to a statement from lawyers of the class representative. The claims have ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Google filed a reply in support of a US appeals court overturning a ruling in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice and states, saying their opposition does not explain why — ... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Mike Swift
OpenAI faces US court litigation alleging its advertising pixel secretly tracks consumers on advertisers’ websites, including people without ChatGPT accounts. In the latest privacy suit against an AI company a... (more story)
October 27, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Artificial intelligence is accelerating cyberthreats against Australia by helping criminals and state-sponsored hackers identify vulnerabilities, develop attacks and produce more convincing scams... (more story)
October 27, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
With just two months left before new Colorado laws regulating chatbots and automated decision-making take effect, the tech industry is pushing back against proposed rules they say would make the laws too strin... (more story)
MLex Summary: Natural gas suppliers EQT and Range Resources plan to combine in an all-stock deal that would result in a merged entity with an enterprise value of $50 billion, according to a release.
October 26, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Can Sino-Australian miner MMG persuade the EU merger regulator that it will keep a promise to supply ferronickel to European steelmakers once it has bought a key mine in Brazil? That will likely depend on how ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The UK antitrust probe of FirstCash’s acquisition of rival pawnbroker Ramsdens is starting, the regulator said. The Competition and Markets Authority is due to decide by Dec. 22 whether the deal ... (more story)
MLex Summary: South Dakota has received the first $9 million from Meta Platforms of a $52 million share in a national settlement over social media’s impact on youth mental health, Attorney General Marty Jackle... (more story)
MLex Summary: Loblaw Companies has committed to take actions aimed at strengthening its security measures following a cyberattack that occurred in February, Canada's Privacy Commissioner announced. In a compli... (more story)
October 26, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Amazon’s landmark European data privacy case, which resulted in a record €746 million fine that was subsequently annulled on appeal in Luxembourg, is being shared among European regulators, the head of Luxembo... (more story)
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Unauthorized AI use of news content requires stronger safeguards, European and Canadian publishing associations said in announcing a coalition. The groups called on EU and Canadian leaders to sup... (more story)
October 26, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Novo Nordisk has lost a European semaglutide patent with the European Patent Office's Board of Appeal in a decision published Monday rejecting the Wegovy and Ozempic-maker's eleventh-hour effort to amend its c... (more story)
Customs, law enforcement and other authorities detained a record 196 million counterfeit items in the European Union in 2025, 67 percent more than the year before. A new joint enforcement report by the Europea... (more story)
MLex Summary: Zheng Zhao, a Chinese national, made his initial court appearance in Los Angeles federal court after being extradited from the Netherlands for his alleged role in an international cryptocurrency ... (more story)
October 24, 2026
MLex Summary: US Senators Jeanne Shaheen, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Ron Wyden, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee; Sheldon Whitehouse, ranking member of the Environm... (more story)
October 23, 2026
MLex Summary: Two unidentified UK nationals have seen around £50 million of assets, including a yacht and a number of overseas properties, frozen after prosecutors secured an "unexplained wealth order" against... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Basketball Association today announced their signing of a memorandum of understanding “intended to protect the integrity of profession... (more story)
MLex Summary: UK financial firms now see oversight of third-party AI systems as their main governance challenge, according to a survey published on Monday by the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Autho... (more story)
Asia
MLex Summary: The Bank of Thailand and Bank Negara Malaysia have joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore's BLOOM initiative to develop common approaches for cross-border transactions using digital money, in... (more story)
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: South Korean producers filed separate lawsuits at the US Court of International Trade to contest the Commerce Department's September review of an antidumping order on oil country tubular goods from South Korea.
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department announced a new strategy to scale up domestic seafood production, which includes introducing a voluntary US-caught seafood label on packages sold to consumers. Commerce... (more story)
October 26, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Some significant EU businesses and industry groups have warned that planned EU legislation to require companies to diversify their sources of key supplies from countries such as China could increase costs and ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The Greek Council of State has released the public version of its decision in August to refer to the EU top court a dispute between the Greek state and the newspaper Dimokratia. The dispute regar... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Anna Lauwereys
Five Spanish industrial manufacturers saw their challenge of a state aid measure for power prices dismissed at the EU top court on Thursday. PGI Spain, Berry Superfos Pamplona, Promens Packaging, RPC Envases a... (more story)
October 22, 2026
MLex Summary: PGI Spain, along with companies including Berry Superfos and RPC Envases, failed to challenge a previous court defeat over a Spanish and Portuguese measure to back the input costs of fossil-fuel ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback on proposed changes to rules for measuring CO2 emissions and fuel consumption from heavy-duty vehicles. The amendment aims to clarify testing requireme... (more story)
MLex Summary: A four-week consultation on the scope and content of the European Commission's planned strategy for strengthening the EU's hydrogen industry and attracting investment has been opened. In a statem... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Fossil-fuel importers would get three additional years to meet EU methane requirements rather than one year as proposed by the European Commission, under a position adopted by the European Parliament on Thursd... (more story)
October 26, 2026 | Masha Borak
The EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act could have its tech sovereignty requirements eased during legislative scrutiny, a lead EU lawmaker on the file, Diego Solier, told MLex in an interview. Lawmakers... (more story)
MLex Summary: Temu’s plan to remedy risk assessment failures under the Digital Services Act has been accepted by the European Commission to end a breach that saw the online marketplace fined €200 million in Ma... (more story)
MLex Summary: Industry groups representing telecom companies including Iliad, Digi, Colt Technology Services and 1&1 have called for stronger competition safeguards in EU lawmaker Michał Kobosko’s draft report... (more story)