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Antitrust, Technology
March 20, 2026 | Chris May
North America
Financial Crime
March 19, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Martin Coyle
Europe, North America
Artificial Intelligence, Energy
March 19, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust View More
March 23, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation said Friday it had teamed up with authorities under the State Council’s Antimonopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Commission, conducted field investigations at... (more story)
March 23, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Major South Korean oil refiners — SK Energy, GS Caltex, S-Oil and HD Hyundai Oilbank — are being raided by prosecutors over collusion allegations, the Korea Prosecution Service confirmed Monday, with search-an... (more story)
March 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippine Competition Commission said non-tariff measures in the livestock and poultry subsectors may restrict competition if implementation gaps persist, raising import costs and constraini... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 23, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese voice actors are pushing back against unauthorized use of their voices for artificial intelligence training and monetization, spotlighting tensions between rapidly advancing speech technology and the p... (more story)
March 23, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s cybersecurity authorities have issued detailed operational guidance on the use of the open-source AI agent OpenClaw, expanding recent risk warnings into a broader governance push as adoption accelerate... (more story)
March 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippine Supreme Court has adopted a governance framework for the use of “human-centred augmented intelligence” in the judiciary, setting ethical guardrails for AI deployment in courts. The... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 23, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s antitrust regulator will strengthen oversight of provincial authorities handling merger reviews as it expands an entrustment system designed to improve efficiency and redistribute caseloads. Commenting... (more story)
March 21, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Two California Law Revision Commissioners instructed the commission’s staff to tweak draft merger control legislation in a manner that clarifies precisely what the burden of proof would be for deal challengers... (more story)
March 20, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
A coalition of eight state attorneys general filed a motion seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent Nexstar from commingling the assets and operations of Tegna, after the companies received merger app... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 23, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan
Asia
Indonesia’s new child-safety rules for digital platforms draw on elements of Australia’s under-16 social media ban but adopt a more complex, risk-based approach. While platforms are beginning to comply ahead o... (more story)
March 22, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Teresa Ribera, the EU commissioner in charge of wielding the bloc’s powerful tech laws, will meet Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai, the CEOs of Meta Platforms and Google, as part of a trip to the US this comi... (more story)
March 20, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
A state court jury in California asked about potential damages against Meta Platforms and YouTube in the trial over a lawsuit that alleges Instagram and YouTube caused the mental health problems of a 20-year-old plaintiff.
Intellectual Property View More
March 23, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Tokyo District Court held that a subtitle translator had allowed broad reuse of their work across broadcast and streaming, but not the omission of their name, drawing a clear line between economic righ... (more story)
March 20, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office has found itself in the middle of a political conflict after Director John Squires made the unprecedented decision to file trademark applications for the “Board of Peace” in ... (more story)
March 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Book authors asked a US federal judge to grant final approval to their $1.5 billion settlement with Anthropic to resolve copyright claims over AI training.
Financial Crime View More
March 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Three men were sentenced in US federal court after pleading guilty to their roles in a nationwide scheme that enabled North Korean workers to access US-based computer networks.
March 20, 2026 | Neil Roland
Asia, North America
The US Securities and Exchange Commission should examine how China might be exploiting murky corporate structures called variable interest entities, which may be used by hundreds of Chinese companies listed on... (more story)
March 20, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Weeks after it took effect, a US judge struck down as unlawful a Treasury Department rule requiring certain corporate buyers of residential real estate to disclose their beneficial owners.
Financial Services View More
March 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The former chief executive of Nodus International Bank, a Puerto Rican lender, has pleaded guilty to leading a scheme to fraudulently obtain at least $24.9 million from the bank and conspiring t... (more story)
March 20, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The former chief executive of Nodus International Bank pleaded guilty in US court to leading a scheme to fraudulently obtain nearly $25 million from the Puerto Rican lender and to violate sanctions on Venezuel... (more story)
March 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Market Financial Solutions, a UK mortgage company that collapsed amid fraud claims, is under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority. The regulator said on Friday it had opened an enforc... (more story)
Trade View More
March 23, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said Friday it opposes unilateral and protectionist trade measures, urged Mexico to correct what it called its “erroneous practice” of imposing additional tariffs, an... (more story)
March 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection said in a ruling that a confidential unlicensed online platform using AI improperly conducted customs business by employing an optical character recognition tool ... (more story)
March 20, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: Bahrain's Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill B.S.C. filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade challenging the Commerce Department's February review of an antidumping order on common alloy a... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 19, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Marc van der Woude, the president of the EU’s lower-tier General Court, is set to leave the judiciary this autumn, MLex has learned. His resignation will take effect on Sept. 15 and is for personal reasons, a ... (more story)
March 19, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: National governments are set to propose a set of actions to ensure the bloc remains "highly competitive," according to a draft statement obtained by MLex, to be adopted at a summit today. The act... (more story)
March 19, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Japanese Cabinet on Thursday approved a bill to amend the Economic Security Promotion Act for submission to parliament. The bill would add services to ensure the stable supply of critical goo... (more story)
Energy View More
March 20, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Weak voltage control in Spain’s power system was a key cause of the April 28, 2025, blackout affecting Spain and Portugal, the trade association for European electricity transmission system operators has said.... (more story)
March 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Barriers continue to hinder demand response, storage, and other non-fossil flexibility resources across EU countries, the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators says in its latest rec... (more story)
March 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A failure to contain a rapid voltage surge partly led to the April 28, 2025 blackout in Spain and Portugal, with limited reactive power reserves and cascading technical issues amplifying the disr... (more story)
Technology View More
March 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: On their sixth day of deliberation, the jury in the social media addictive design trial against Meta Platforms and YouTube in Los Angeles sent out a question to Judge Carolyn Kuhl that suggests t... (more story)
March 20, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
US antitrust laws are seen as a balm for an array of social ills and the focus on antitrust for that purpose has gone too far, the chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission said, while advocating for consume... (more story)
March 20, 2026 | Chris May
North America
Live Nation Entertainment and state attorneys general remained in settlement discussions as a high-profile US antitrust trial moved ahead of schedule, the parties told a New York federal judge Friday.