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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
April 01, 2026 | Mike Swift
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
Financial Services
March 31, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
March 30, 2026 | Madeline Hughes and Emma Whitford
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
Antitrust View More
April 02, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
An Australian court will not issue sweeping suppression orders ahead of the April 13 trial in the Mastercard antitrust case, a judge said. In a Federal Court hearing on Thursday, Judge Michael Wigney said it h... (more story)
April 02, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japanese retail operator Misumi Shoji has settled an antitrust investigation into exploitative conduct toward its suppliers after requesting that they dispatch employees for store openings and renovations with... (more story)
April 02, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
The Shanghai Intellectual Property Court has found that several operators of a web-based shooting game engaged in a collective boycott against a rival platform, but ruled the conduct didn’t constitute a horizo... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 02, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in high-impact innovation, from patent drafting to drug discovery, Chinese regulators are moving to impose guardrails, warning of rising legal risks while rolling ou... (more story)
April 01, 2026 | Madeline Hughes, Mike Swift and Matthew Newman
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
US House Republicans are circulating text for a consumer privacy bill, MLex has learned. The proposal is being discussed at the same time privacy regulators from across the globe converged in Washington, DC, a... (more story)
April 01, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Authors filed their fourth amended US complaint accusing Meta Platforms of copyright infringement, claiming the company’s large language artificial intelligence models (LLaMA) were trained on cop... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 01, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazil's competition watchdog found substantial gaps while conducting an analysis of Unimed Blumenau’s proposal to acquire Hospital Santa Catarina. As a result, the authority classified the transaction as comp... (more story)
April 01, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Gilead Sciences and Arcellx cleared the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger waiting period on March 31, Arcellx said in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
April 01, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Boston Scientific and Penumbra each received a second request for additional information from the US Federal Trade Commission on March 16. The issuance of the second request extends the waiting p... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 02, 2026
Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The Japanese data protection agency agreed on Wednesday to pursue amendments to the personal information protection law in the current fiscal year, while continuing to promote secure cross-border... (more story)
April 02, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Service providers are expected to adopt a risk-based approach to age assurance under Australia’s draft children’s privacy code, using less intrusive methods where privacy risks are low and stronger measures wh... (more story)
April 01, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
An Irish privacy watchdog’s investigation into a data broker that sold location information from users' smartphones should be concluded by the end of 2026, one of the three commissioners at the country's Data ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 02, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Canadian-headquartered Communication Components Antenna has secured a major win after an Indian court upheld its patent. The Delhi High Court rejected Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik's “hindsight bias” defence... (more story)
April 02, 2026 | Freny Patel and Melissa Ritti
Asia, North America
Semaglutide’s patent expiry has triggered global divergence, with India seeing rapid generic entry and price cuts, China promoting innovation, and the US maintaining exclusivity, forcing Novo Nordisk to adapt ... (more story)
April 01, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Europe, North America
Sports leagues around the world are facing increased levels of live sports piracy threatening their copyrights and their bottom lines. While major leagues invest in advanced tracking and takedown technology, s... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 01, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Iurii Gugnin, the founder of cryptocurrency payments firm Evita, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he had defrauded US authorities and banks while processing illicit payments for Russian clients.
April 01, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Supermicro cofounder Yi-Shyan Liaw and third-party consultant Ting-Wei Sun each pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to US charges alleging they diverted billions of dollars of servers integrated with artificial in... (more story)
April 01, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A Texas-based businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to his role in a scheme to bribe an official of Mexico’s state-owned energy firm to help an equipment company obtain a $540 million supply contract, according t... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 01, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK banks and building societies have been asked for feedback on a proposal to increase shares of high loan to income lending, or LTI. The policy proposal follows a recommendation from the Financi... (more story)
April 01, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Bank of England is planning a 2027 update on potential policies to support the resilience of the gilt repo market. The central bank released on Wednesday a response to a discussion paper on p... (more story)
April 01, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The Bank of England said on Wednesday that artificial intelligence risks are likely to increase, as UK financial firms expand their deployment of the advanced technology. The UK’s financial sector has yet to a... (more story)
Trade View More
April 02, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU car sector faced trade difficulties in 2025, with both imports and exports declining, an economic report by car lobby ACEA published Thursday said. The imbalance with China worsened signif... (more story)
April 01, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: According to the US Energy Information Administration, US coal exports decreased in 2025 after four years of growth. The EIA attributed this to a 92 percent decrease in exports to China in 2025 a... (more story)
April 01, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission determined that fatty acids imported from Indonesia and Malaysia are dumped into the US and subsidized. The Commerce Department will continue its antidumping... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
March 31, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania's planned increase in restructuring aid to €2.86 billion for state-owned lignite mining and power generation company CE Oltenia and extended until the end of 2029 is open for feedback for... (more story)
Energy View More
April 01, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
EU carbon allowances in the Market Stability Reserve will be kept in the reserve, instead of being invalidated as is usually the case, according to a European Commission proposal published Wednesday. The move ... (more story)
April 01, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: ACER, the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, has said it will decide by June 25 about changes to the methodology for assessing regional electricity reserve capacity, aimed at imp... (more story)
April 01, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU carbon allowances held in the Market Stability Reserve above 400 million will be retained in the reserve, instead of being invalidated as is normally the case, according to a proposal from the... (more story)
Technology View More
April 01, 2026 | Matthew Newman and Maria Dinzeo
Europe
Regulators should decide how platforms can use virtual private networks, or VPNs, for age checks, rather than banning their use, an official at London-based digital identity company Yoti has said. Regulators s... (more story)
April 01, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: NewsGuard told a US federal judge that even if it facilitated an advertising boycott of certain media sources, it still would not implicate antitrust law. The organization said a decision in X Co... (more story)
April 01, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU Digital Markets Act — and the fines imposed on US companies under it — represents the “biggest single source of friction” between the EU and the US, the US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth J... (more story)