By Harry A. Jacobowitz, Esq.
The Notice announces an effective date of October 16, 2023 for the new, restrictive rules, beginning a countdown for the last chance to preserve the opportunity to expunge many customer complaints from the Central Records Depository (CRD).
By David E. Robbins[1]
Since the February 23, 2023 publication in Securities Arbitration Alert of my article “FINRA’s New Expungement Rules – Balancing Interests But Adding Roadblocks,” FINRA filed amendments to those rules and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved FINRA’s major “modification” to “the current process relating to the expungement of customer dispute information.”[2] This article explains just what the SEC has approved and the implications for financial advisers seeking such “extraordinary relief.”
By David E. Robbins[1]
Assuming SEC approval, FINRA’s significant changes to its expungement procedures will be implemented some time this year.
By Harry A. Jacobowitz, Esq.***
A broker’s attempt to vacate an unfavorable New York arbitration decision through forum shopping in Colorado and an effectively uncontested vacatur proceeding,
By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
The comment period closed December 7 on FINRA’s proposed changes to its expungement rule filing.
By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
Those who thought we were nearing the end of the road for FINRA’s proposed changes to the expungement process need to rethink their assumptions.
