SEC Seems to be Facing a Late June Deadline to Report to Congress on Investor Adviser Arbitration
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By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

By our reckoning, the SEC may be facing a looming late June deadline to report to Congress on investment adviser arbitration.

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SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson May Not Have Decided Many Arbitration-Related Cases, But She Sure Knows Her Stuff
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By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

President Biden on February 23 nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace the retiring Supreme Court Justice Breyer,

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More on FINRA’s Report on Unpaid Customer Awards. Sen. Warren Introduces Bill To Compel Implementation of One of the Ideas; PIABA Agrees
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We continue here our analysis of FINRA’s recently-published Report, FINRA Perspectives on Customer Recovery, and share news that a Bill has been introduced in the Senate to require FINRA to implement one of the Report’s proposals.

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“Arb Rule, We Hardly Knew Ye.” CFPB Arbitration Rule Likely To Be No More (And Never Was)
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB”) Final Rule on arbitration, which went into effect on September 18, was retroactively nullified by Congress on October 24,

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Baseball Season is Here! You Can’t Tell the Anti-Arbitration Bills Without a Scorecard
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In SAA 2017-10, we reported that Congressional Democrats announced March 7 the reintroduction of six bills aimed at curtailing mandatory arbitration in consumer or employment contracts.

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