Data Privacy and Security
November 05, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
November 04, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
Trade
November 04, 2026 | Bradley Dress, Zack Budryk
November 05, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Free TV Australia has asked the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission to "urgently: review Meta Platforms’ proposed content-scraping terms, arguing they could breach misuse of market power laws and provisions on unf...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Kakao Mobility’s appeal against the South Korean competition regulator’s sanctions over alleged abuse of market dominance is nearing a conclusion, with the Seoul High Court seeking to hear final oral arguments in January. ...(read more)
November 05, 2026
MLex Summary: Hong Kong's planned Building Maintenance Support and Services Council would disqualify contractors and consultants convicted under the Competition Ordinance or anti-bribery laws from its pre-vetted vendor lis...(read more)
MLex Summary: South Korea announced sweeping measures Thursday to strengthen cybersecurity in the financial sector amid heightened AI-related risks, saying 40 incidents involving 473,000 cases of data leakage had been repo...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo
South Korea’s three largest broadcasters are seeking 15 billion won ($11.16 million) in compensation from Naver and its affiliate Naver Cloud for allegedly using their news content without authorization to develop artifici...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | MLex staff
China plans to explore new governance mechanisms for data used in artificial intelligence and expand high-quality datasets, seeking to strengthen security while giving developers more room to innovate amid intensifying glo...(read more)
MLex Summary: Linfox Armaguard was ordered by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission on Thursday to continue providing cash transport services and access to cash centers until June 30, 2027 to help prevent disrup...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
The US Surface Transportation Board denied Union Pacific Railroad’s move to keep secret a keynote speech by Chief Executive Officer Jim Vena, in which he allegedly threatened to hike rates for shippers opposed to his acqui...(read more)
November 04, 2026
MLex Summary: The US Surface Transportation Board denied Union Pacific's appeal concerning a conference video that allegedly shows Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena threatening shippers that opposed the companies acquisition of N...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Genta Nakanishi
Japan's expanded warning over vulnerabilities in the widely used PHP programming language has highlighted the difficulties companies face in updating aging IT systems. Japan's Innovation Platform Agency told MLex that miss...(read more)
MLex Summary: Japanese retailer Ryohin Keikaku, operator of the Muji brand, said Wednesday in an update to its Oct. 30 disclosure that the full credit card numbers of approximately 1.09 million MUJI Card members may have b...(read more)
Latin America
MLex Summary: Brazil's Data Protection Authority released its six-year institutional report, highlighting the agency's regulatory, supervisory and international cooperation activities since its creation in 2020. As of Octo...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Freny Patel
US biopharma major Incyte secured an Indian injunction against Melody Healthcare just 11 weeks before its ruxolitinib patent’s expiration. The Delhi High Court ruling highlights the availability of interim protection again...(read more)
November 05, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
FamilyMart, one of Japan’s largest convenience store chains, has defeated a trademark challenge to its “Tsukimi” food promotion after a Japanese court found that highlighting the familiar seasonal term across product names...(read more)
The Delhi High Court has referred Singapore-based Utracon Corporation’s trademark lawsuit to arbitration, finding the dispute with its former Indian subsidiary concerned contractual brand-use rights.
MLex Summary: Canada's government introduced the Combatting Financial Crimes and Drug Trafficking Act, which would create new ministerial powers to address abuses of money services businesses and restrict large cash transa...(read more)
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department said it has sanctioned the criminal network of India-based Suniel Kumar Sharma and his spouse, Jaspreet Preeti Shahid, who have supported Iran’s shadow fleet through a web of mariti...(read more)
November 04, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
A US judge will review documents related to how the government decided to charge Smartmatic with corruption, after ruling late Tuesday that there's “some evidence” supporting the voting machine producer’s claim that it's t...(read more)
November 04, 2026 | Neil Roland
US bank examiners looking at AI risk should inspect an institution’s existing risk categories, such as operational, compliance and credit threats, rather than a "separate and distinct" risk category, according to the Offic...(read more)
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted amendments to the rules that define which registered investment companies, investment advisers and business development companies qualify as small entitie...(read more)
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has unveiled its 2027 work program, outlining initiatives to strengthen EU competitiveness, deepen the single market and reduce regulatory burdens. Priorities include tackling high ene...(read more)
MLex Summary: Representatives from Boeing, Mercedes-Benz, Bosch, Ford and Sanofi were among attendees from more than 100 multinational companies and foreign business associations at a roundtable meeting hosted by China's M...(read more)
MLex Summary: Indonesia has called for deeper Asia-Pacific economic integration through a proposed regional free trade area, stronger digital-trade cooperation and greater use of artificial intelligence to improve trade ef...(read more)
MLex Summary: A coalition of Thai producers has filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade to challenge the Commerce Department's October review of an antidumping order on frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand.
MLex Summary: Parties interested in Romania's plan to grant €600 million and other benefits to state-owned Nuclearelectrica National Company — to refurbish the Cernavodă 1 reactor — have one month to provide input, the Eur...(read more)
November 03, 2026
MLex Summary: A package proposal dubbed “omnibus bank financing — competitiveness and simplification” and a geo-economic deterrence pact are among the key initiatives planned by the European Commission for next year, accor...(read more)
October 27, 2026
MLex Summary: Japan's government-backed chipmaker Rapidus and Indian technology company HCLTech said on Monday that they have opened two semiconductor development centers in Bengaluru and Hubli, India, to support Rapidus' ...(read more)
November 04, 2026 | Louis de Briant
European Parliament lawmakers backed weaker CO2 emissions targets for new cars and vans Wednesday, partly aligning with demands from France and Germany to ease EU automotive rules. The proposals would allow certain renewab...(read more)
A European Commission plan to reform energy taxation remains under discussion by EU member states, despite being listed for withdrawal in an earlier draft of the EU executive's 2027 work program, the commission has said. T...(read more)
November 04, 2026 | Louis de Briant and Cynthia Kroet
Steel, electric vehicles and critical technologies would be priorities for a new EU-UK “Trusted Partnership” to strengthen supply chains and limit the impact of trade restrictions on each other, according to a draft summit...(read more)
November 04, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Regulator Ofcom has been accused of taking a "minimalist" approach to implementing the UK's Online Safety Act. During a parliamentary session examining the impact of the law, witnesses said Ofcom was not using the full sco...(read more)
MLex Summary: California Representative Zoe Lofgren, the US House Science Committee ranking member, who will be seeking the chairmanship next year when Democrats control the House, said Congress needs to stop politicizing ...(read more)
MLex Summary: US House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., who is set to take charge of the committee once the Democratic majority is sworn in this January, said the committee's priority is to ...(read more)