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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 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Hong Kong will spend HK$1.8 billion ($230 million) subsidizing diesel prices to mitigate oil spikes linked to the Middle East conflict, with the city's antitrust regulator tasked with ensuring fuel companies d... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Chinese battery makers were told by four regulators to curb “involution-style” competition and restore market order, as authorities step up oversight of the sector facing overcapacity and price p... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Microsoft urged a US judge Thursday to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed by ChatGPT Plus subscribers who claim the company struck a secret agreement with OpenAI that inflated prices, arguing their alleged inj... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
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)
April 10, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea’s science ministry is moving to take stock of the country’s fragmented public-sector data holdings, launching the first government-wide census of AI training data as it looks to secure a steady pip... (more story)
April 10, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s science ministry is launching its first government-wide survey of AI training data held by public bodies, in a move grounded in the country’s AI Basic Act and aimed at mapping fragm... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
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)
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Parties interested in plans by Suzano and Kimberly-Clark to form a tissue-products joint venture have now ten days to provide feedback to the EU merger watchdog. The EU regulator has set a provis... (more story)
April 09, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
TV channel operators Nexstar Media Group and Tegna, Inc. — which technically closed their merger before their business integration was halted by a temporary restraining order — are fighting efforts by deal opp... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
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)
April 10, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan
Asia
Meta Platforms has fulfilled its child-protection obligations under Indonesian government rules, the ministry of communication and digital affairs announced, following an examination conducted early this week.... (more story)
April 10, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
The effectiveness of the EU’s landmark data protection rules has evolved since the entry into force of the GDPR in 2018, shifting from a focus on enforcement to driving tangible changes in companies’ behavior,... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
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)
April 09, 2026 | Steve Scherer
North America
For over a decade, large law firms developed specialized practices focused on handling intellectual property disputes before the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Now, with fewer petitions making it through to... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
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.
April 09, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Former Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold wants to intervene in a US government effort to seize two Manhattan apartments prosecutors say were purchased using siphoned state assets, alleg... (more story)
April 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: PricewaterhouseCoopers faces an investigation over its audit of Digital 9 Infrastructure, the wound-down investment company. The UK's Financial Reporting Council said it would look at the account... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 09, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked the US District Court for the District of Arizona for a preliminary injunction to halt Arizona's efforts to apply state criminal and gambling law... (more story)
April 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A new draft compromise on a revamped EU securitization framework has been put forward by the lead negotiator on the file in the European Parliament earlier this month. Ralf Seekatz's document, ob... (more story)
April 09, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Talks on a revamped EU securitization framework have progressed among EU lawmakers, with a new draft compromise put forward and due to be discussed on April 14 that softens his initial ambitions to loosen capi... (more story)
Trade View More
April 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of terephthalic acid from South Korea and Mexico into the European Union will be subject to punitive dumping duties of up to 13.7 and 25.7 percent, respectively, the European Commission s... (more story)
April 09, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday appeared skeptical of a nonprofit law firm’s push to compel Customs and Border Protection to respond to a petition to review alleged forced labor in ... (more story)
April 09, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission ruled that dumped and subsidized imports of Chinese temporary steel fencing materially injure US industry. The Department of Commerce will impose antidumping... (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 09, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
"Flexibilities" will soon be presented to reduce penalty risks under the EU methane regulation, particularly to avoid supply disruptions, the European Commission said. Companies have warned of tight timelines ... (more story)
April 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback for a review it is conducting of the EU’s Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, or ACER, assessing whether it meets its objectives, mandate ... (more story)
April 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: New rules clarifying how organizations that report energy market data are approved and supervised, as well as an update as to how such data is submitted to regulators, were published Thursday in ... (more story)
Technology View More
April 10, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
A federal judge in California signaled Thursday he may allow key claims by the US Federal Trade Commission and a group of states to proceed against Uber Technologies over its “Uber One” subscription service, a... (more story)
April 09, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
Epic Games and Google will face another evidentiary hearing over their proposed modifications to a US court-ordered injunction mandating changes to the Google Play Store.
April 09, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The government is putting more pressure on tech companies to make more detailed and accurate reports to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck... (more story)