Energy, Financial Crime, Trade
October 13, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Financial Crime, Technology
October 13, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
Africa, Europe, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
October 12, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
October 14, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese e-commerce platforms face increased scrutiny of automated price matching, lowest-price requirements and merchant rules under a new seven-agency initiative aimed at curbing destructive competition and p... (more story)
Market regulators in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, two cities in southern China’s Guangdong Province, have fined businesses for using generative engine optimization to promote clients through fabricated rankings and... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Genta Nakanishi
Japan's competition watchdog has issued 20 corrective recommendations under the country's freelance protection law since it took effect nearly two years ago, with failures to disclose transaction terms emergin... (more story)
October 14, 2026
Singapore is expanding its AI assurance work with testing guidance tailored to autonomous agents, accreditation for third-party assessors and a cybersecurity task force. The Infocomm Media Development Authorit... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Hong Kong's labor authority said artificial intelligence is unlikely to cause large-scale layoffs in the next three years, although clerical workers and young entrants to the workforce are expected to face gro... (more story)
MLex Summary: Singapore on Wednesday announced three initiatives to strengthen AI safety and cyber resilience: a testing kit for AI agents, an accreditation program for independent testers and a taskforce on A... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Insurance Australia Group is seeking approval for its proposed acquisition of RAC Insurance in Western Australia on public-benefit grounds, marking the first such application under Australia's new mandatory me... (more story)
MLex Summary: Insurance Australia Group has filed the first public-benefits application under Australia’s new mandatory merger regime, seeking approval for its proposed acquisition of RAC Insurance from RACI, ... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
Recreational vehicle component manufacturers Patrick Industries and LCI Industries are the targets of a second request merger probe by the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
October 14, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia, Europe
Recent amendments to Japan's data protection law are not expected to jeopardize the country's mutual adequacy arrangement with the EU, despite calls from domestic privacy advocates for European authorities to ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, a government research agency under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, said on Tuesday that it had identi... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes
Europe, North America
In a US Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that shows the regulatory and business pressure on AI startups that are heavily used by minors, Character.AI told a bankruptcy judge in Delaware that it is losing between $... (more story)
China's highest court has upheld a Shenzhen clothing company's Kokia trademark against a challenge by Nokia, finding that years of commercial use had made the mark sufficiently distinctive to avoid confusion w... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Following objections from major patent holders and smaller technology firms alike, the UK government is taking a lighter touch to standard-essential patent reform, focusing instead on licensing guidance, volun... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | MLex Staff
A Shanghai appeals court upheld a ruling ordering a platform operator to pay compensation for using artificial intelligence to replicate a voice actor’s voice without permission for commercial promotion, clari... (more story)
Bank of America was hit with a $1.2 billion penalty by US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network over its failure to mitigate and report national security risks. The agency credited $750 mi... (more story)
October 13, 2026
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department announced enforcement actions imposing more than $1.21 billion in penalties against Bank of America, the second-largest bank in the United States, for violations of ant... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Government backing for calls by the UK's Serious Fraud Office to boost its enforcement capabilities by paying whistleblowers is a timely fillip for an enforcer looking to improve its reputation. But there is a... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Sean Maguire
The Australian Banking Association is seeking regulatory approval for banks to collaborate on regional services and trial up to 10 shared hubs to preserve face-to-face banking in communities without branches. ... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Neil Roland
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
The Financial Stability Board should apply more high-level principles and fewer detailed prescriptions to avoid early policy recommendations that lag in implementation in some jurisdictions, an FSB panel heade... (more story)
MLex Summary: Three individuals have been arrested as part of a "major operation" against suspected insider trading, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority said on Tuesday. The investigation saw more than 100 FC... (more story)
MLex Summary: China's goods trade rose 18.8 percent year on year to 39.94 trillion yuan ($5.97 trillion) in the first nine months of 2026, with exports increasing 16.4 percent and imports climbing 22.3 percent... (more story)
Europe, Middle East
MLex Summary: The EU and Turkey agreed to strengthen customs cooperation and continue work on trade barriers, according to a joint statement issued today after their third high-level trade dialogue in Brussels... (more story)
MLex Summary: A binational panel of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Secretariat’s US Section has partially affirmed the US Commerce Department’s affirmative countervailing duty determination for cert... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
A foreign-backed company bidding for a tender in Greece's energy sector must notify the European Commission of financial contributions it has received from outside the EU, even though the bid falls below manda... (more story)
October 12, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
EU competition chief Teresa Ribera pledged to step up efforts to make Europe's cross-border state aid projects faster and easier for companies to navigate, warning that procedural delays could cost promising t... (more story)
October 12, 2026
MLex Summary: Parties interested in capital injections received by PostNord Strålfors — totaling €15.9 million and made by its parent company PostNord Strålfors Group — now have one month in which to send feed... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Louis de Briant
The next round of negotiations on EU rules for cross-border energy infrastructure will take place on Nov. 17, following constructive talks between lawmakers and member states Tuesday, according to an EU offici... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Turkey’s deputy trade minister has warned that tighter European-content requirements under the EU’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act could exclude Turkish producers, disrupt shared supply chains and raise c... (more story)
October 12, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
The European Commission has no plans to make further changes to the planned extension of the EU's Emissions Trading System to buildings and road transport, Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said Monday. More... (more story)
MLex Summary: In addition to high operating costs for Character.AI's large language model, "Character's changes to its products, including age restrictions and harm detection, have contributed to increased cos... (more story)
October 13, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Meta Platforms has accused UK regulator Ofcom of seeking the highest possible online safety fines without properly assessing what was needed to deter breaches, a London court hearing heard on Tuesday. Ofcom re... (more story)
MLex Summary: The EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act could impose €115 billion in costs over a decade, according to a study commissioned by the Computer & Communications Industry Association, or CCIA E... (more story)