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In Regulatory Notice 13-40, FINRA announced that the SEC had approved amendments to its Discovery Guide. The Discovery Guide applies to customer cases (rather than intra-industry cases) and outlines presumptively discoverable documents that the parties to an arbitration should exchange without FINRA or an arbitrator intervening. The amendments concern three areas: (1) electronic discovery, (2) product cases, and (3) affirmations. First, the Discovery Guide was amended to clarify that electronic files are "documents" under the meaning of the Discovery Guide and that ...
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Arbitration is an alternative to the traditional lawsuit filed in court in order to resolve a dispute. It is a formal dispute resolution process in which the parties-customers, brokers, or brokerage firms-select a neutral, third party (or parties) called an arbitrator to decide the matter. In the securities area, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) is a self-regulatory organization and the largest regulator of securities firms doing business with the public. Any arbitration filed that involves securities will likely be filed with FINRA, which then ...
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