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MSRB MAKES CONTINUING DISCLOSURE MONTHLY STATISTICS AVAILABLE ON EMMA

Alexandria, VA – The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today began providing on its Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA®) website statistics on the number and type of disclosure filings that issuers of municipal securities make available to investors throughout the life of a bond.

These documents consist of important information about a municipal bond that arises after the initial issuance of the bond, such as annual financial information, bond calls and credit rating changes, for example. The continuing disclosure statistics on the EMMA website represent monthly volumes since 2010, categorized by types of disclosure. The disclosures themselves are also available on the EMMA website.

“Municipal securities investors and other market participants now have access to detailed information on the volume and types of continuing disclosure submissions,” said MSRB Executive Director Lynnette Kelly. “This is another significant step the MSRB has made to increase the availability of municipal market information to investors.”

The continuing disclosure statistics are available under the Market Statistics pages on the EMMA website. The dynamic format allows users to easily view, graph and compare different types of disclosures on a monthly basis for the last three years. In addition to the new continuing disclosure data, the Market Statistics section includes summaries of municipal trades and new issues of municipal securities as reported to the MSRB.

The MSRB’s EMMA website is a centralized online database that provides free public access to more than 800,000 official disclosure documents and trade data associated with municipal bonds issued in the United States. The EMMA website makes available real-time trade prices, primary market and continuing disclosure documents, and current credit ratings for more than one million outstanding securities, as well as current interest rate information, liquidity documents and other information for most variable rate municipal securities.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) protects and strengthens the municipal bond market, enabling access to capital, economic growth, and societal progress in tens of thousands of communities across the country. The MSRB fulfills this mission by creating trust in our market through informed regulation of dealers and municipal advisors that protects investors, issuers and the public interest; building technology systems that power our market and provide transparency for issuers, institutions, and the investing public; and serving as the steward of market data that empowers better decisions and fuels innovation for the future. The MSRB is a self-regulatory organization governed by a board of directors that has a majority of public members, in addition to representatives of regulated entities. The MSRB is overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Congress.

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