PIABA Newsroom

PRESS RELEASE: PIABA Announces 2013 Officers and Directors (November 10, 2012)
COMMENT LETTER: SR-FINRA-2021-041 - Proposed rule change to amend FINRA's Customer and Industry Codes of Arbitration Procedure (October 4, 2012)
COMMENT LETTER: Regulatory Notice 12-34 - FINRA Requests Comment on Proposed Regulation of Crowdfunding Activities (August 30, 2012)
COMMENT LETTER: SB 978 (Price and Vargas) - Securities transactions: exemption from qualification requirements (June 28, 2012)
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Investment Fraud Lawyers Cite “Serious Flaws” in FINRA Arbitration Panels, by Irvin Jackson
AboutLawsuits.com (October 10, 2014) -- A group of attorneys who represent investors in claims against stock brokers and the financial industry is criticizing the independent regulatory organization…
Investors Who Are Behind On Retirement Savings Have Options, by Elena Holodny
Business Leader Singapore (October 9, 2014 3:50 am) -- Many investors are behind on their retirement savings following bear-market setbacks. Others have just started saving late. Charles Schwab’s…
Group Faults Finra Arbitrators As Too Old, Too Male, by Kathy Lynch and Ted Knutson
RIA Central Digests (October 9, 2014) -- Too old and too male is how the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (Piaba) described Finra arbitrators in a recent study. The association also…
The Fix for Biased Wall Street Arbitration? Make It More Like Court or Get Rid of It, by Susan Antilla
TheStreet (October 8, 2014 5:00 am) -- Did you hear the one about the guy who got on a Finra arbitration panel even though he'd pled no-contest after being indicted for practicing law without a…
NASAA Statement on PIABA Arbitration Study
NASAA Statement on PIABA Arbitration StudyNASAA (October 8, 2014) -- The following is a statement from William Beatty, Washington Securities Director and president of the North American Securities…
Arbitrations may be unfair to investors, by Kevin McCoy
USA Today (October 7, 2014 3:41 pm) -- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration pools that decide many investor disputes with brokers lack diversity, raising the prospect the system…
FINRA Arbitration Fails Diversity, Bias Tests, Group Says, by Ed Beeson
Law 360, New York (October 7, 2014 3:29 pm) -- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority isn’t doing enough to recruit a diverse set of arbitrators or vet their biases, and as a result investors…
Finra Arbitration Panels Lack Diversity, Lawyers’ Group Says, The rate of investors winning compensation or other awards has fallen to about 42% in 2013, group says, by Matthias Rieker
Wall Street Journal (October 7, 2014 1:58 pm) - The roster of arbitrators chosen to resolve disputes between investors and brokers lacks diversity, according to an organization of lawyers who…
Investors Bar Blasts FINRA Arbitration as Biased, by Jenna Greene
LegalTimes (October 7, 2014 12:38 pm) -- Old men. That’s who decide most investor disputes in the United States, according to a study by the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, which found…
FINRA Arbitration Fails Diversity, Bias Tests, Group Says, by Ed Beeson
LexisNexis® Legal Newsroom Securities (October 7, 2014 11:29 am) -- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority isn’t doing enough to recruit a diverse set of arbitrators or vet their biases, and as…