From the Global Arbitration Review (1/16/12): “The world’s first specialist centre to resolve disputes arising from complex financial transactions has opened in The Hague. PRIME Finance – the Panel for Recognised International Market Experts – was declared open for business today by the Dutch minister of finance, Jan Kees de Jager. It will draw on … Continue reading New Dispute Resolution Center for Complex Financial Transactions Opens in The Hague →

I am pleased to share this invitation from Susan Franck (Wash. & Lee): I wish to draw your attention to the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and its First Annual Winter Forum in San Francisco. It is the first event of its kind that is designed to drawn together the synergies of serious scholars of … Continue reading Institute for Transnational Arbitration: First Annual Winter Forum in San Francisco – February 1-2, 2012 →

In a Federal Register notice issued last week, the SEC published for public comment a proposal to amend Rule 13201 of the FINRA Code of Arbitration Procedure for Industry Disputes to expressly preclude employees of FINRA members from arbitrating collective actions arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act or the Equal … Continue reading SEC Publishes for Comment Proposal to Exempt Collective Actions from FINRA Arbitration →

Tomorrow, FINRA’s Board of Governors is holding its December 2011 meeting, and on its agenda are several rule proposals in the Dispute Resolution area.  FINRA has been very active in continuously reforming and updating its Codes of Procedure for arbitration and mediation, to address concerns and critique from its various constituents.   The proposals related to FINRA … Continue reading FINRA’s Board of Governors to Consider Several DR Proposals →