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Financial Services
January 20, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Antitrust, Technology
January 20, 2026 | Chris May and Clayton Vickers
North America
Financial Services
January 20, 2026 | Sofia Gerace and Fanny Roux
Europe, North America
Antitrust View More
January 21, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Granville Technology Group has told UK appeal judges that the UK High Court made a flawed ruling in 2024 when it assessed the extent of losses suffered by the company as a result of computer-screen cartelist L... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Brick makers have received Dutch competition clearance to cooperate on a program to introduce reusable transportation pallets to reduce their impact on the environment. The Authority for Consumers and Markets ... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Lantmännen has failed to persuade lower-court EU judges that its defense rights were breached when EU cartel investigators settled with another defendant before pursuing their investigation of the Swedish agri... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 21, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission will miss the Feb. 2 legal deadline to finalize AI Act guidelines on classifying high-risk AI systems, opting instead to publish a draft for public consultation later in the month. Fina... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU data protection authorities have cautiously endorsed the European Commission’s plan to streamline implementation of the AI Act, while warning that proposed changes risk undermining accountabil... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China must accelerate breakthroughs in AI training chips and heterogeneous computing while expanding AI applications, a senior industry official said, outlining priorities for the next phase of the country’s A... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 21, 2026 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Europe
Japanese company Marubeni has requested EU merger approval to acquire Spanish electricity supplier Factor Energia, according to the European Commission. Marubeni will make the purchase through its wholly-owned... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
The promise of long-term investment is unlikely to be an acceptable remedy for antitrust authorities when faced with a merger that is expected to cause significant harm to competition in a market, the head pro... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
China's top antitrust authority launched social-media accounts this week, as part of efforts to boost public engagement as competition law plays an expanding role in both domestic governance and Beijing's econ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK media regulator Ofcom said its drive to support economic growth will sit alongside — not dilute — tougher intervention in areas such as online safety and cyber resilience, even as those regime... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Social-media platform X has been granted permission to appeal an Irish High Court ruling that dismissed its legal challenge to Ireland’s Online Safety Code, after a judge found the case raises po... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Whether EU privacy law obliges regulators to give access to data when handling complaints will come under consideration by the EU’s highest court on Thursday, in a case that could have implications for transpa... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 21, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The Unified Patent Court has confirmed its approach to long-arm jurisdiction in a lock patent dispute, clarifying that once validity risks become concrete, the court's reach must stop at the border. All claims... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Puma will not be able to block the registration of a trademark for sportswear by Chinese company Ningbo Gongfang after the EU General Court upheld an earlier decision finding that the two marks were not suffic... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's top court has ruled that patent applications not supported by genuine inventive activity and filed in bad faith lack any legal basis, eliminating the need for courts to determine ownership.
Financial Crime View More
January 21, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday cast prosecutorial reform as part of a broader pledge to crack down on “privilege, cheating and unfairness” that he said corrode everyday life, while conceding... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Shanghai tax authorities have fined the operator of Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo, Shanghai Xunmeng Information Technology, 100,000 yuan ($14,400) for tax-related violations. The Shanghai Mu... (more story)
January 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's new Report Fraud service designed to transform how victims and businesses across England, Wales and Northern Ireland report cyber crime and fraud and how law enforcement and industry res... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Wednesday published the list of members for the third mandate of the Platform on Sustainable Finance — its advisory body on the EU taxonomy and the broader sustainable ... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Four major South Korean banks — KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Woori and Hana Bank — have been hit with a combined fine of 272 billion won ($184 million) by the country’s competition regulator for colluding over loan-to... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK’s National Audit Office warned on Wednesday that the government’s push to make regulation more supportive of economic growth risks falling short without clearer accountability, monitoring and agreement ... (more story)
Trade View More
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Chinese producers and exporters of L-lysine are the benefits of countervailable subsidies, the US Commerce Department said in a preliminary determination. The determination follows a year-long pe... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The EU and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening, diversifying and securing supply chains, leading to more supply chain resilience, Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry A... (more story)
January 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that fiberglass door panels from China are being dumped in the US.
State Aid View More
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Centro Latte Bressanone, an Italian dairy farmers' cooperative, may receive a direct grant worth 18.2 million euros from the national government, the European Commission said on Wednesday, cleari... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Nuctech said it plans to engage with an EU subsidy investigation in an "open and cooperative manner" but called on the European Commission to "adhere to World Trade Organization rules ... and avo... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s economy and education ministries on Wednesday held a meeting on making the country’s universities more globally competitive by reforming institutional management and turning universities ... (more story)
Energy View More
January 21, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet and Louis de Briant
Europe
Cyprus, the country chairing the meetings of EU ministers in the first half of this year, is keen to move quickly to secure agreement among member states on changes to the Critical Raw Materials Act to reduce ... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said Wednesday that the nuclear fusion research and development plan will start in earnest this year, with the aim of advancing the timeline for commerci... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: The New Zealand government has agreed to amend the Electricity Industry Act 2010 to equip the country’s electricity regulator with the tools needed to maintain a fair and competitive market, a se... (more story)
Technology View More
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Input on future spectrum needs is sought from companies in program making and special events, Ofcom — the UK’s telecoms regulator — said on Wednesday. Growing use of wireless equipment used by th... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The EU’s revamped telecom rules didn’t include a binding arbitration mechanism to resolve disputes between telecom operators and tech companies over network fees because a negotiating system was working well, ... (more story)
January 21, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Social media platforms are facing the prospect of new age limits in the UK as lawmakers prepare to debate rival proposals to restrict under-16s’ access on Wednesday evening, despite the government saying it wa... (more story)