Contact:             Jennifer A. Galloway, Chief Communications Officer
                         (703) 797-6600
                         jgalloway@msrb.org

Alexandria, VA – The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board today made available an instructional video about its EMMA municipal bond website.  The video, which can be accessed here and at emma.msrb.org, provides an introduction to EMMA and a guide to municipal bond information available on the site, including real-time trade data, disclosure documents for bonds and 529 college savings plans, and market statistics.   

“EMMA is a powerful new tool that gives individual investors access to valuable bond market information that was once available only to institutional investors,” said MSRB Executive Director Lynnette Kelly Hotchkiss.  “EMMA is an intuitive and easy-to-use system.  This video will help new users learn what the site has to offer and quickly take full advantage of the available information.”

EMMA, which stands for Electronic Municipal Market Access, is the central electronic depository for municipal bond information.  EMMA houses information for more than 1.2 million municipal bonds and is available free of charge.  In addition to trade data and disclosure documents, EMMA provides key interest rate information about municipal variable rate demand obligations and auction rate securities, and educational information about municipal bonds.