
By Donald R. McNeil The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently marked its territory for resolving disputes with customers and its members through its own arbitration forum, FINRA Dispute Resolution. See FINRA Notice to Member 16-25. This comes in response to two decisions from the United States Court of Appeals that allowed parties to resolve the dispute in a non-FINRA arbitral forum. Goldman, Sachs & Co. v. Golden Empire Schs. Fin. Authority, 764 F.3d 210 (2d Cir. 2014) … [Read more...]