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MSRB PUBLISHES EMMA GUIDE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS  

Alexandria, VA – The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today published an introductory guide to EMMA for state and local government issuers of municipal bonds. The online guide serves as an introduction to using the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA®) website, and walks state and local governments through using the site to better evaluate their municipal financing options, communicate with investors and comply with disclosure rules.   

The guide is a key addition to the MSRB’s State and Local Government Toolkit, which now also includes Costs Associated with Issuing Municipal Securities, an explanation of the components of gross spread, and Using EMMA Trade Monitor to Evaluate Your Municipal Market Activity, which describes how municipal securities issuers can analyze secondary market trading activity for their bonds. 

"The MSRB is committed to its mission of protecting state and local governments, and we hope that the new resources in the toolkit will provide valuable information to these entities," said MSRB Executive Director Lynnette Kelly. 

Highlights of the MSRB's State and Local Government Toolkit include:

  • Using the EMMA website
  • Understanding continuing disclosure
  • Learning about municipal bond issuance

Access the MSRB’s State and Local Government Toolkit. 

The MSRB also provides educational resources for investors in municipal securities. 

The MSRB’s EMMA website is a centralized online database that provides free public access to more than 800,000 official disclosure documents and data on more than 70 million trades 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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