Data Privacy and Security
October 08, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Financial Crime
October 08, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 08, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
October 09, 2026 | Genta Nakanishi
Asia
Purpose, a privately held Japanese maker of gas water heaters, received a corrective recommendation Friday from Japan’s competition watchdog over delayed payments, improper deductions and requiring small contr... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
The Australian competition watchdog’s approval of the music-royalty body’s licensing arrangements has been challenged by Heart Music Group, which has argued that safeguards fail to give rival businesses a prac... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | Alex Wilts
A Nevada federal judge overseeing long-running antitrust litigation against the Ultimate Fighting Championship over fighter pay is wrestling with the best and most efficient way to test whether company executi... (more story)
October 09, 2026
MLex Summary: Seven Chinese government agencies have proposed broader protections for platform workers, including restrictions on how companies use algorithms to manage their work, with public comments open th... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Australian data-center operators warn that regulatory complexity, renewable-energy delays and growing financial obligations could deter investment. An industry group said it supports proposed renewable-energy ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The Philippine Senate on Thursday passed on third reading Senate Bill No. 2424, or the Safe Media Access and Responsible Technology for Kids in Digital Spaces, or SMART KIDS Act, which seeks to b... (more story)
MLex Summary: Singapore’s Competition and Consumer Commission is seeking public feedback on ENEOS APAC’s proposed acquisition of Chevron Singapore. The regulator accepted the application on Oct. 2 to assess wh... (more story)
October 08, 2026
MLex Summary: The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, a global nonprofit focused on energy markets research, issued a briefing note to Virginia's public utilities regulator on the NextEra-Do... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Arrive's proposed acquisition of Passport Labs has escaped a US antitrust challenge after a five-month investigation, with the Department of Justice pointing to its phased review approach as a way to reach mer... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
The Philippine Senate has approved a bill that would prohibit people under 18 from holding or using social-media accounts, setting up a potential clash with a House proposal that would allow teenagers access u... (more story)
MLex Summary: Japan’s National Cybersecurity Office, part of the Cabinet Secretariat, said on Friday that organizations handling large volumes of personal data or sensitive information should swiftly strengthe... (more story)
MLex Summary: Major Japanese secondhand retailer Bookoff Group Holdings said Friday that unauthorized access to a subsidiary's membership management system had resulted in a leak of customer information, poten... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Nick Robertson
The number of patents per drug has more than tripled since 1990 from about 2.1 to 6.9 in 2019, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers argue the incre... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Steve Scherer
Europe, North America
The US International Trade Commission is weighing whether to continue a trade-secret investigation despite a contract directing disputes to Germany. Neither Zync nor BMW argues that the agreement strips the ag... (more story)
MLex Summary: USA Today filed a copyright complaint against OpenAI, accusing it of scraping content from its websites to train OpenAI's models and repackaging that content in outputs to OpenAI users. "OpenAI's... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Neil Roland
The American Express National Bank, one of the US’s largest credit and charge card issuers by transaction volume, was fined $350 million by the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for deficiencies in ... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Former Barclays trader Jay Merchant, who saw his conviction for rate rigging quashed at a London appeals court on Wednesday, has said he will sue the bank, saying it needed to face "justice."
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department said it was targeting the remnants of Iran's shadow fleet, the aging network of tankers the government relies on to move billions of dollars worth of petroleum and petr... (more story)
The nonpartisan US Government Accountability Office has said it will investigate the impact of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's workforce cuts on the agency's ability to carry out its expanding respo... (more story)
MLex Summary: EU-authorized crypto companies should stop providing services involving stablecoins that do not comply with the bloc’s rules, the European Securities and Markets Authority has said. National regu... (more story)
MLex Summary: Deloitte has been fined £6 million ($7.9 million) and handed a "severe reprimand" by the Financial Reporting Council over its work on the transport operator Go Ahead between 2016 and 2020. The FR... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Bradley Dress
Europe, Latin America
High purity dissolving pulp from Brazil and Norway is endangering the domestic industry, petitioners testified on Thursday to the US International Trade Commission, which also heard from foreign manufacturers ... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Zack Budryk
The US Court of International Trade ruled against the Commerce Department on Thursday, remanding its redetermination in a countervailing duty investigation into Chinese and Mexican freight rail couplers.
Asia, North America
The US Court of International Trade ruled against the Commerce Department Wednesday, remanding its final redetermination that its antidumping and countervailing duty orders on Chinese imports of chassis and su... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Three companies are blocked from submitting tenders in two public projects in the Greek energy sector after the European Commission said they'd failed to provide enough information on foreign subsidies, MLex h... (more story)
October 07, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys
The European Commission will extend Metsaf — its temporary state aid framework for energy-intensive industries — allowing EU countries to continue providing subsidies to companies hit by elevated energy prices... (more story)
October 06, 2026
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback into whether an arbitration award — ordering Romania to pay €42.2 million plus interest and costs to 10 solar-energy investors — is in line with state ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Binding renewable-energy targets for transport should continue beyond 2030 to support investment and reduce reliance on imported fuels, 13 industry groups urged in a joint letter to the European ... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe's refineries should put their transition to cleaner fuels at the heart of the European Commission's planned strategic dialogue to address the immediate supply and cost pressures fuelled by conflict in t... (more story)
MLex Summary: Europe should maintain strong LNG deliveries and continue injecting gas into storage early this winter to guard against cold spells and ease next summer’s refilling, the European Network of Trans... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Imogen Howse
UK fashion retailer Asos has confirmed that a hacker gained access to personal customer information — including names and contact details — after impersonating a trusted contact to obtain an employee’s login c... (more story)
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms faces a German lawsuit over its alleged refusal to reimburse legal expenses after losing an out-of-court dispute over Facebook content originating from the Russian state-affiliated... (more story)
October 08, 2026 | Freny Patel
Meta Platforms faces scrutiny in India after the Delhi High Court questioned whether Instagram’s Remix feature facilitates copyright infringement, raising broader concerns over platform responsibility for tool... (more story)