Data Privacy and Security
October 22, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 22, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
October 23, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Meta Platforms has postponed an update of commercial terms from next week to Nov. 20 following a backlash from publishers, advertisers and activists over provisions they say would give it sweeping rights to us... (more story)
October 23, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Matthew Newman
Europe, North America
President Donald Trump's argument that EU technology enforcement amounts to taxing successful US companies has become harder to sustain following Meta Platform’s multibillion-dollar legal setbacks at home. Bru... (more story)
October 23, 2026
MLex Summary: Canada’s Competition Bureau has submitted a response to the Department of Finance Canada on proposed consumer-driven banking regulations, saying it “welcomes the proposed regulations and their al... (more story)
MLex summary: News outlets including the New York Times disputed the logic in recent summary judgment motions by OpenAI and Microsoft in pending copyright lawsuits in US District Court for the Southern Distric... (more story)
MLex Summary: OpenAI has announced a collaboration on AI safety with Poland’s National Research Institute, known as NASK. The US company will work with NASK’s AI Safety Research Center in Warsaw, which serves ... (more story)
Oceania
MLex Summary: New Zealand’s cybersecurity agency has urged organizations to immediately patch critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language widely used in websites and web services. In a statement on... (more story)
October 23, 2026 | Anna Ferrari
Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo may need behavioral remedies to keep its prospective indirect Generali stake purely financial under its proposed MPS takeover, the Italian competition authority's presiden... (more story)
October 23, 2026 | Jean Comte
Using the antitrust rules to probe M&A deals that have closed is likely to remain an exception, top officials at the French and Belgian competition authorities told a panel on Friday. Both authorities have bee... (more story)
October 23, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
California’s forthcoming merger-notification requirement will streamline state enforcers’ access to federal filings, rather than chiefly uncover problematic transactions they would otherwise miss, state antitr... (more story)
October 23, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Subsea cable providers could face tougher security duties and fines of up to £10 million or 10 percent of qualifying worldwide revenue, whichever is higher, under new UK government proposals. The plans would r... (more story)
October 23, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Online platforms face new UK duties to tackle extreme pornography from Nov. 6, but regulator Ofcom has yet to announce a consultation timetable to be able to enforce the requirements. The new Online Safety Act... (more story)
MLex Summary: Google, Meta Platforms, TikTok and X are among 45 companies that have been invoiced for UK online safety fees for the 2026/27 charging year, according to a list published on Friday by the communi... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | MLex Staff
This week at the Unified Patent Court, Align Technology won an injunction covering 17 UPC countries, while Gucci and Alpina Coffee Systems defeated infringement claims and largely secured patent revocations. O... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
The Department of Justice's shift on competition policy in relation to standard essential patents during the second Trump administration is disappointing as it has "gone too far" in favor of patent holders, a ... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Steve Scherer
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Drugmakers struck licensing deals for cancer and metabolic treatments, while technology companies broadened agreements covering mobile communications, wireless charging and AI infrastructure, and Nokia saw pat... (more story)
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)
October 23, 2026 | Martin Coyle
A seismic testing company that's the first to have breached the terms of a UK plea deal was granted a few more weeks to pay its £2 million bill on Thursday, but the UK fraud agency has made it clear that it is... (more story)
MLex Summary: Six unregulated UK lenders, known as Annex 1 firms, have had restrictions placed on them after the Financial Conduct Authority raised concerns about their anti-money laundering policies, controls... (more story)
MLex Summary: Kristīne Černaja-Mežmale has been elected vice-chair of the European Banking Authority for a two-and-a-half-year term, starting on Nov. 1. The Latvian central bank official will succeed Helmut Et... (more story)
MLex Summary: EU rules aimed at boosting transparency in exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives were published in the bloc’s Official Journal on Friday. The measures revise trade transparency and def... (more story)
October 22, 2026
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms' personal AI agent Muse is being scrutinized by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority through the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum, the FCA's chief executive said in a speech on... (more story)
October 23, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Russia's ability to deliver on its new freedom to deliver diesel to the US remains uncertain amid refinery disruptions and bipartisan opposition in Washington. The agreement also raises questions about how the... (more story)
October 23, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Asia, Europe
The EU's plastics sector is the closest to possible new safeguard measures against surging imports, the trade commissioner said on Friday. Maroš Šefčovič said the European Commission was assessing the legal an... (more story)
MLex Summary: US Court of International Trade Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves has amended prior rulings involving a challenge to the Commerce Department's 2022-2023 review of an antisubsidy review of corrosion-resi... (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)
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: Romania's decision to reserve mandatory port pilotage services for public entities is not state aid where those services are inseparable from public duties involving maritime safety and environme... (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 22, 2026 | Jon Menon
The UK's energy minister has urged regulators to have a “more robust” approach, as part of broad efforts to tackle the cost of living. The challenge across all the regulators is to be “a bit more intentional,”... (more story)
MLex Summary: The EU and Vietnam agreed to deepen cooperation on energy, trade and critical raw materials, following talks in Brussels on Thursday between Vietnamese President Tô Lâm, European Commission Presi... (more story)
MLex Summary: Small and medium-sized UK businesses will get dedicated regulatory support, under plans published by the UK government on Friday. A new website will initially connect businesses with existing ser... (more story)
Asia
MLex Summary: Shanghai-based platforms spanning social media, online video, literature, gaming and e-commerce, including RedNote, Bilibili, Migu Video, miHoYo, Dewu and Soul, published reports on their efforts... (more story)
Ireland, the US, a German regulator, tech lobby NetChoice and pressure groups have all applied to intervene in X’s challenge to a €120 million European Commission fine under the Digital Services Act, according... (more story)