Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the cantonal court rightly rejected the challenge to the proposed sole arbitrator under the VQF statutes and the Intercantonal Arbitration Concordat.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The challenge was properly rejected; the proposed arbitrator qualified as a 'specialist' and no disqualifying lack of independence was shown.
Extrahierte Begründung
The term 'specialist' in the statutes refers to substantive expertise in the subject matter of the arbitration, here anti-money-laundering obligations of financial intermediaries, not to branch-specific fiduciary expertise. A practicing lawyer with broad legal and procedural experience may satisfy this requirement.