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 | MLex Staff
Asia
International liner shipping companies would be required to assess how their cooperation agreements affect China's shipping-related industrial and supply chains under proposed regulations that would also intro... (more story)
October 09, 2026
MLex Summary: Hong Kong's Competition Commission said Friday it had raided 11 premises as part of an investigation into alleged bid rigging, price fixing and market sharing among IT suppliers competing for con... (more story)
October 09, 2026 | Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj
Thailand's proposed overhaul of market-dominance and merger-control rules could bring more businesses and transactions under competition scrutiny, but the absence of clear criteria for assessing dominance in d... (more story)
China is proposing tighter controls on algorithms used to manage platform workers, seeking greater transparency and human oversight of decisions affecting their livelihoods as part of broader labor protections... (more story)
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
Oceania
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)
Europe
MLex Summary: Parties interested in providing feedback on Italian hearing aid company Amplifon to acquire Danish business GN Hearing now have ten days to reach out to the European Commission. The EU merger reg... (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 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: 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: 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)
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
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)
October 09, 2026 | Yonnex Li
China's central bank has issued a forceful rejection of claims that it manipulates the yuan exchange rate to gain trade advantages, declaring that market forces play the decisive role in determining the curren... (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)
October 09, 2026 | Ryan Harrison and Oscar Pandiello
The EU has selected 46 new strategic raw materials projects to strengthen industrial supply chains and reduce reliance on foreign suppliers. Together with earlier selections, they could meet the bloc’s 2030 ca... (more story)
MLex Summary: A dumping probe into imports of polyvinyl alcohol made by Sinopec will re-start with a view to recalculate the dumping tariff for the Chinese group, the European Commission said Friday. The move ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Dumping duties in place on imports of flat-rolled aluminum products from China into the European Union are under a review, to determine whether their expiry would lead to renewed dumping and inju... (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)