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FINRA arbitration attorney Jake Zamansky was quoted in IFLR (International Financial Law Review) on February 26. Some excerpts from the article are below. The full article, “FINRA Signals the End of Class Actions for Brokers,” is available here. Note: Finra stated its intention to appeal the decision after the article […]
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Jake Zamansky was quoted today in a Bloomberg article by Kevin Dugan titled “SEC Shines Light on Derivatives-Backed Notes: Credit Markets,” praising the SEC’s effort to force firms to be transparent about their structured note offerings in this complex area. “These are complex and opaque products, and the more sunshine […]
Below is a recent article published by securities lawyer Jake Zamansky on Forbes.com (2/26/13) In what looks like an “inside baseball” dispute between the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which regulates all Wall Street brokerage firms, and Charles Schwab Corp., one of the leading firms with whom small investors invest their […]
Below is a recent article published by securities lawyer Jake Zamansky on Forbes.com (2/21/13) Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren at a Senate hearing last week ripped into bank and securities regulators for their failure to prosecute Wall Street honchos for their rampant crookedness in the years before the credit crisis. Her […]
Jacob H. Zamansky may be an anomaly among securities arbitration litigators, at least those representing the plaintiffs’ side–he is, simply put, an optimist. Not just about his own role and future prospects in the industry–which have over a 30-year career been mostly positive–but he is optimistic about the prospects of […]
Below is a recent article published by securities lawer Jake Zamansky on Forbes.com (2/12/13) Here comes the “dumb” money of retail investors steamrolling into stocks and out of bonds and cash. I can just hear the traders at Goldman Sachs telling their clients it’s time to dump stocks and leave […]
Below is a recent article published by securities lawyer Jake Zamansky on Forbes.com (2/11/13) During the stock research scandal of 2000, the world was amazed that Merrill Lynch superstar stock analyst Henry Blodget would actually put in writing that he considered the stocks that he was touting to retail investors […]
Below is a recent article published by securities lawyer Jake Zamansky on Forbes.com (2.7.13) What in the world is going on here? The Royal Bank of Scotland (”RBS”) actually made the scoundrels who engaged in Libor shenanigans pay for what they did!RBS, the latest bank embroiled in the Libor rate-fixing […]