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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 05, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
Data Privacy and Security
March 05, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Trade
March 05, 2026 | Bradley Dress, Zack Budryk
North America
Antitrust View More
March 06, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Italy’s rail infrastructure manager Rete Ferroviaria Italiana has secured regulatory approval of its commitments to end a 2025 probe into alleged efforts with parent Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane... (more story)
March 06, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Several insurance companies and brokers in Spain were searched recently by antitrust officials over possible agreements or concerted practices in relation to coverage in claims for compensation, ... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
Automotive components makers Rombat and Elettra, as well as industry association Eurobat, have challenged an EU antitrust fine before the bloc’s judges over their alleged role in a cartel, according to court f... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 06, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
MLex Summary: AI development based on licensing for the copyrighted works used in training should be the path the UK takes, a committee of lawmakers told the government. To protect its creative sector, the gov... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe, Latin America
Meta Platforms’ plan to introduce fees for AI chatbots temporarily re-admitted onto its WhatsApp messaging service has drawn strong criticism from AI rivals. This week it suspended a ban on carrying rival agen... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China plans to invest more than 7 trillion yuan ($1 trillion) this year in infrastructure and public-service facilities, including artificial intelligence-related computing networks, communications systems and... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 06, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
CK Hutchison and the European Commission will appear once again before EU judges this June for a three-day hearing over the legality of a vetoed telecom merger in the UK, MLex has learned. The two sides have a... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst and Jon Menon
Europe
A UK probe into imports of titanium dioxide from China has started following allegations that imports of the material are being dumped into the market and harming the domestic industry. Separately China’s LB G... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Battery manufacturer Clarios has asked EU merger regulators to approve its plan to buy Ecobat’s battery recycling and specialty lead operations in Germany and Austria.
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 06, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Reddit lost a court challenge on Wednesday, which concerned the Dutch Data Protection Authority’s handling of allegedly attorney-client privileged documents in an ongoing investigation. The dispu... (more story)
March 06, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Debeka, a private health insurer, has been told by a German court that it can't analyze diagnoses in reimbursement invoices to identify participants for voluntary preventive care programs without... (more story)
March 06, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The provider of two unnamed online forums is under investigation by the UK online safety regulator over concerns the sites allow hosting of image-based sexual abuse, the watchdog said in a statem... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 06, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
British multinational Reckitt Benckiser failed to maintain an injunction against Godrej Consumer Products after the Calcutta High Court lifted a ban on the Spic cleaner, rejecting efforts to trademark its expi... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top intellectual property regulator has proposed expanding access to its patent fast-track examination system while tightening commercialization and compliance requirements in draft rules released for public comment.
March 06, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Foreign copyright infringement threats against TV9 Network were shot down by an Indian court. The Delhi High Court ruled that TV9's news reporting constituted fair use, lacked proven ownership claims and did n... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 05, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: David Ferrera, a resident of Orange County, California, and his former colleague, Marc Tilman of Belgium, were each charged in a six-count indictment with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices ... (more story)
March 05, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Two former executives of a medical device company were charged in the US with paying bribes to a French public hospital employee in exchange for buying their devices.
March 05, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The final US Federal Reserve enforcement action against Wells Fargo was lifted after eight years following the San Francisco-based bank's widespread fake accounts scandal. The third-largest US bank by assets “... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 05, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
A nonpartisan research firm has stepped into a crossfire between some senators and US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins over the agency’s enforcement data, with information backing up the De... (more story)
March 05, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: In a motion to dismiss a US lawsuit filed by victims of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, Binance said it's not responsible for the attack and purported failures in its anti-money launderi... (more story)
March 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority has issued new standards on how branches of non-EU banks must report information to supervisors. These branches will have to report under the new standards starting... (more story)
Trade View More
March 06, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China will promote more balanced trade by expanding imports and strengthening domestic demand, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said Friday at a National People’s Congress press conference in Beijing, as a record... (more story)
March 06, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: EU and Canadian companies will find it easier to trade digitally across borders, the European Commission said, after negotiations for a digital trade agreement between the two sides started on Th... (more story)
March 05, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission has determined Chinese and Malaysian float glass imports materially harm US industry and are subsidized by their respective governments. The US Department of... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 06, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania has won EU approval for a €150 million plan to support the installation of new electricity storage capacity. The government will provide direct grants for standalone battery storage syste... (more story)
March 05, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Senior enforcers Maria Jaspers and Inge Bernaerts will move to new jobs in the EU’s competition department as the European Commission rotates some staff, MLex has learned. Jaspers, who has long led the EU’s ch... (more story)
March 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain's €200 million national plan to support manufacturing of battery and energy storage technologies and hydrogen technologies for electric vehicles has been approved by the European Commission... (more story)
Energy View More
March 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Ring-fencing and redistributing congestion income across jurisdictions in the European Commission's plans for improve EU cross-border energy infrastructure could weaken efficient investment signa... (more story)
March 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU ministers on Thursday adopted the amended European climate law, which sets a 90 percent reduction target by 2040 in net greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 levels. From 2036 onwards, 5 p... (more story)
March 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A just transition must be at the core of the rollout of the EU’s new carbon pricing system for road transport and buildings, the European Environment Agency has said. In two briefings published o... (more story)
Technology View More
March 06, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan
Asia
Indonesia has issued a ministerial regulation barring children under 16 from creating accounts on designated high-risk digital platforms, with phased implementation starting March 28. The initial rollout will ... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Live Nation engaged in coercive tactics when it was negotiating with the City of Irvine over potentially building an amphitheater in 2023, a former city official testified Thursday, saying he felt frustrated a... (more story)
March 06, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
Arturo Bejar, a former Meta Platforms employee who testified before US Congress over the company’s failure to address harms to children and teenagers on its apps, saw the company prioritize growth and profits ... (more story)