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Marlin Keith Andrews v. William S. Humber and Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., FINRA Case #22-01176 - The claimant asserted causes of action including failure to supervise, breach of fiduciary duty, respondeat superior,...more
Join Michael J. Charlillo as he discusses FINRA's latest expungement process enhancements. He will explore process changes implemented when requesting and obtaining expungement of customer dispute information. Michael will...more
Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. This month,...more
The implementation date for FINRA’s new, more strict expungement rules has been set for October 16, 2023. The new rules make it much harder for registered representatives to expunge negative customer-related complaints,...more
Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's (FINRA) latest attempt to make expungement of customer disputes harder. The latest changes will make successful...more
On April 12, 2023, the SEC approved FINRA’s proposed expungement overhaul, a process that started in earnest in December 2017. See Release No. 34-97294; File No. SR-FINRA-2022-024. The latest rule changes, which FINRA...more
Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. This...more
In response to its proposed overhaul of the customer complaint expungement process from July 2022, FINRA received 45 comment letters from a variety of sources. According to FINRA, 12 commenters (including investor advocate...more
On July 29, 2022, FINRA sent a new set of proposed rule changes designed to overhaul the expungement process to the SEC for approval. These proposed rules come as a follow-up to FINRA’s original proposal submitted to the SEC...more
Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. FINRA’s...more
FINRA recently published a “Discussion Paper” on expungement of customer dispute information in which it outlines its plans going forward on revising the expungement process. Expungement_Discussion_Paper.pdf (finra.org) (Let...more
State securities regulators have long expressed reservations about the use of the expungement remedy. Recently, we have observed a marked increase in the use of alternative (read: aggressive) efforts by states to impact the...more
As it was for the rest of the world, 2021 was an interesting year for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Originally published in American Bar Association’s Securities Litigation section - March 17th,...more
Join Ulmer attorney Christopher D. Seps as he provides an update on FINRA’s current procedures and standards applicable to expungement of customer complaints and employment termination disclosures. He will also discuss...more
On September 22, 2020, FINRA sent proposed rule changes designed to overhaul the expungement process to the SEC for approval. On Friday May 28, 2021 – the same day the SEC was slated to adopt or reject the proposal – FINRA...more
Today FINRA announced in a press release here that it has withdrawn from SEC consideration its proposed rule changes regarding the expungement process. The proposed rule changes were dramatic and included the creation of a...more
In a move that surprised nobody, PIABA recently released an updated study on expungement awards from 2019/2020, and, in the most predictable fashion, they continue to complain that the expungement process is rigged and that...more
Join Christopher D. Seps as he discusses the rule changes that recently took effect related to FINRA’s expungement process, as well as proposed changes that will likely be approved and take effect in 2021. These changes...more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) is an independent regulatory body, overseeing securities firms and their brokers and other registered personnel. Arbitration of employment disputes in the arbitration...more
The second dramatic change to the expungement process under the proposed rules relates to who will be deciding the expungement request. Thankfully, FINRA will still have arbitrators decide expungement requests, not the...more
Earlier this month, the SEC approved the first of several rule changes that FINRA has proposed for the process governing the expungement of customer complaints from a broker’s record. The approved rule change will make it...more
A couple of years ago, I complained about PIABA’s effort to make expungement even more difficult to obtain. Well, fast forward to June 1, and, as Chris Seps explains here, the SEC has approved the first proposed expungement...more
Brokers seeking to expunge customer complaints from their records can sleep a bit easier. Richard Berry, head of FINRA’s Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR), stated last week that FINRA intends to tweak some restrictions that...more