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Trade
January 29, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
Financial Crime
January 28, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Martin Coyle
Europe, North America
Data Privacy and Security
January 28, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
February 02, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
South Korean prosecutors have indicted executives across the flour, sugar and power equipment industries as part of a sweeping crackdown on cartel conduct.
February 02, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Dozens of executives across the flour, sugar and power-equipment industries have been indicted by South Korean prosecutors as part of a sweeping crackdown on cartel conduct. The Seoul Central Dis... (more story)
February 02, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
The Philippine Competition Commission said a ruling is expected this year in its biggest cartel case to date, which could result in a record 2.4 billion peso fine, as officials stress that enforcement remains ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 02, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan
Asia
Indonesia is moving toward mandatory labeling of artificial intelligence-generated content, with draft rules taking shape that would impose binding obligations on platforms, developers and content creators. Th... (more story)
February 02, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s public security regulator has released a draft law on cybercrime prevention and control, seeking to establish a dedicated legal framework to curb what it describes as an increasingly severe and complex... (more story)
February 02, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: A group of 33 lawmakers from South Korea’s ruling party and largest opposition party have recently proposed a law to govern artificial intelligence specifically in the national defense sector. Th... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 02, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Food retailer Rewe International has won approval in Austria to take over 20 Unimarkt locations, the national competition authority has said. Ten of the approvals are conditional on those stores ... (more story)
February 02, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Global healthcare company Abbott Laboratories’ proposal to acquire Exact Sciences will be reviewed under the new mandatory merger regime, the Australian competition watchdog said Monday. In a sta... (more story)
January 31, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Some US states could initiate antitrust lawsuits without collaboration from federal enforcement agencies as certain attorneys general distance themselves from the Trump White House in the backdrop of competiti... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 02, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s digital-music industry continues to face multiple structural challenges, including opaque data practices and algorithmic control, issues that industry figures say are raising competition concerns while... (more story)
February 02, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s internet regulator clarified in a new policy briefing that personal-data handlers using standard contracts or certifications to export personal data must file a data export security revie... (more story)
February 02, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: California-based social-media company Snap locked over 415,000 Snapchat accounts of users under the age of 16 in Australia as of January 2026, the platform said. In a statement on Monday, Snap sa... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 02, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top court has raised the stakes for trade-secret theft, ruling that stolen technology integral to a product can be presumed to account for its full value in calculating damages.
January 30, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
In a ruling with implications for patent drafting and litigation strategy, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday affirmed a summary judgment victory for Hulu, holding that Sound View Inno... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Tech giant Alibaba Group and its e-commerce platform Tmall have won a trademark appeal after a Chinese court ruled that Tmall’s cat-head logo qualifies as a well-known trademark entitled to cross-class protection.
Financial Crime View More
January 30, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Oceania
A former chief operating officer of Leighton Holdings pleaded guilty in an Australian court and was fined A$1,000 ($700) over his role in a foreign bribery case, police said. Australian Federal Police launched... (more story)
January 30, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: An Australian man was convicted and fined $1,000 in a local Australian court for providing false or misleading information to the directors of a multinational publicly listed company. At the time... (more story)
January 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced the appointment of Demetrios Logothetis as chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and said Mark Calabria, Kyle Hauptman and... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 31, 2026 | Chris May
North America
US Federal Trade Commission antitrust enforcers across the Biden and Trump administrations agree that employers’ pervasive use of unlawful restrictions on labor mobility are causing harm to workers, competitio... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
President Trump said he will nominate Kevin Warsh, a former US Federal Reserve governor who has recently sided with the president’s views on cutting interest rates faster, to succeed Jerome Powell as Fed chair... (more story)
January 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A Florida man pleaded guilty Wednesday to accepting bribes and facilitating the laundering of more than $5.5 million to Colombia while employed by TD Bank.
Trade View More
February 02, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The digital trade agreement between the EU and Singapore entered into force on Feb. 1, the European Commission said. It is the bloc's first standalone bilateral digital trade agreement, which wil... (more story)
February 02, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe, North America
EU steel exports to the US fell sharply after Washington raised Section 232 tariffs to 50 percent in June, with shipments down 25 percent year on year between July and November 2025, export data seen by MLex s... (more story)
February 02, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU regulation imposing a phased ban on Russian gas imports introduced in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine has been published in the EU’s Official Journal. The measure applies from March, w... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 02, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: French environmental group Union Belliloise is challenging the European Commission’s approval of France’s €11 billion, 20-year offshore wind aid program. It wants the EU lower court to annul the ... (more story)
January 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark faces an in-depth investigation into its degressive tariff model for the discharge and treatment of companies' wastewater. Under the system, businesses that discharge large volumes pay a ... (more story)
January 30, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The town of Tychy, southern Poland, may receive a direct grant worth €25.8 million to support a project for the construction of a green economy hub. The measure will allow an underdeveloped build... (more story)
Energy View More
February 02, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce welcomed and appreciated what it called an “objective and impartial” World Trade Organization panel ruling finding that US clean energy subsidies under the Inflation ... (more story)
January 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A US judge granted in part a motion from LaFarge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by victims of terror attacks financed by the cement producer's payments to Islamic State and Al Nusra Front in Syria. I... (more story)
January 30, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson issued a letter to 42 law firms regarding potentially unfair and anticompetitive employment practices. The FTC said that all of these firms re... (more story)
Technology View More
February 02, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Amazon has appealed against an EU court ruling that upheld the European Commission’s designation of its online marketplace as a Very Large Online Platform, a classification which triggers the most stringent co... (more story)
February 02, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital said Sunday it is moving to conditionally normalize access to Grok services under strict supervision, after X Corp submitted a written compliance... (more story)
January 30, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Pornhub operator Aylo this week made perhaps the loudest cry yet for a shift in the UK to age checks for adult content to be handled at the device level, not by online platforms themselves. It won't have falle... (more story)