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 Summary: A former Atkinson employee filed an amended US complaint accusing Fluor Federal Services and its Federal Emergency Management Agency-approved subcontractors of engaging in illegal no-poach agreem... (more story)
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Swiss sports data company Sportradar hasn’t received notice of a complaint allegedly filed by rival Altenar, but says the action is “a thinly veiled attempt to assert pressure in the existing com... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Amazon must step up over its disclosure of documents ahead of a trial of a collective action over the platform's online pricing practices, the class representative told a UK judge on Wednesday. Academic Andrea... (more story)
MLex Summary: State attorneys general made a filing in bankruptcy court identifying concerns about Character.AI’s safety and privacy practices and calling for consumer protections in any sale of the company's ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Anthropic moved to dismiss BMG’s US copyright claims over musical composition, arguing that BMG can’t identify any infringing outputs by its Claude models. Anthropic noted that the suit is the th... (more story)
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs opposed the dismissal of their US claims against OpenAI over a 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University conducted by Phoenix Ikner. They said they properly alleged that ChatGPT w... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Saipem and Subsea7 have argued that Petrobras’ control over tender design gives the oil company enough bargaining power to discipline suppliers and attract additional competitors, rejecting challenges to the u... (more story)
MLex Summary: The decision to approve RTL's acquisition of Sky DACH, which concluded the deal raised no competition concerns, has been published by the European Commission. The approval of the deal without con... (more story)
MLex Summary: Italian defense company Leonardo saw its approved deal with Iveco and Astra published by the European Commission on Wednesday, seven months after its clearance. The regulator found that the trans... (more story)
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative has invoked the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement's Rapid Response Labor Mechanism to review potential labor rights violations, including denial of c... (more story)
MLex Summary: Online platforms will have to prevent children from accessing violent and sexually explicit content in Mexico under new legislation announced by the government. Set for publication this week, the... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Meta Platforms’ challenge to Ofcom’s online safety expertise is “outlandish,” the lawyer for the UK regulator told a London court on Wednesday, as he described fees and fines as Ofcom’s “bread and butter.” Met... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
A bipartisan US bill would curb data center developers’ use of nondisclosure agreements with public officials, leaving them more reliant on existing legal protections. The No Secrets for Data Centers Act follo... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan is considering legislative changes to protect voices and likenesses against unauthorized use, as AI makes it easier to imitate performers and reproduce their images, including those of people who are not... (more story)
MLex Summary: AI developers should obtain permission to use copyrighted material, should be transparent and should pay creators through fair licensing, a report published by Oxford University’s Institute for E... (more story)
MLex Summary: A Bosnian national was sentenced to 60 months in US prison after pleading guilty to federal export and sanctions violations by conspiring and attempting to broker the sale of anti-aircraft missil... (more story)
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Generative AI is making cyber-enabled financial fraud easier to scale, says a paper accompanying a framework from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group, as the two authorities issu... (more story)
October 13, 2026
MLex Summary: A US judge has denied former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko's post-verdict motion for acquittal on corruption charges for paying bribes to Ghanaian officials to open a power plant. The judge a... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has released a report of its findings from its supervisory review of debanking activities at the nine largest national banks it supervises: JPMorg... (more story)
MLex Summary: A set of regulatory measures governing the supervisory review and evaluation of central securities depositories, or CSDs, and settlement discipline was published on Wednesday in the Official Jour... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Significant cryptoasset service providers would come under ESMA's direct supervision, and smaller ones could opt for EU-level oversight, under a compromise proposed as part of lawmakers' scrutiny of the EU cap... (more story)
Europe, Latin America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department said in a final determination that Brazil and Norway are dumping and Brazil is subsidizing high purity dissolving pulp. Commerce assigned Brazilian producers a 6.50 per... (more story)
MLex Summary: Foreign direct investment screening notifications made by EU member states to the EU cooperation mechanism totaled 667 in 2025, 40 percent higher than the 477 of the previous year, according to a... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Refining existing EU trade tools should take priority over creating new legislation that could take years to deliver results, European Parliament trade committee chair Bernd Lange said. He welcomed the recent ... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Jean Comte
The EU's top court has been asked to specify which criteria member states can use to decide whether two companies should be considered as a single state aid recipient. The dispute is related to a legal challen... (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 14, 2026 | Louis de Briant
EU methane monitoring, reporting and verification requirements for fossil-fuel importers would be postponed by 12 months to January 2028 under a European Commission proposal announced Wednesday. The delay woul... (more story)
MLex Summary: The European Commission has proposed delaying by one year methane emissions monitoring, reporting and verification requirements for EU importers of natural gas, oil and coal, as well as methane-i... (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)
October 14, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo and Imogen Howse
A UK online safety probe into Elon Musk's X will now focus on illegal content after the platform made changes to how users can access pornography, regulator Ofcom said. The probe began in January after reports... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Masha Borak
Ireland is establishing a government forum with employers and trade unions to address AI’s impact on the labor market, Prime Minister Micheál Martin announced at the International AI Summit. Speaking at the ev... (more story)
October 14, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefónica might see a revamp of the EU’s telecom rules in 2027 as EU governments edge toward an agreement on a package of telecom regulations as early as the end of this year, a E... (more story)