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

MSRB TO SURVEY MUNICIPAL ADVISORS ON BUSINESS ACTIVITIES   

Alexandria, VA – To inform the development of a professional qualification exam for municipal advisors, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) will conduct a survey of registered municipal advisors later this month. The confidential electronic survey will assess the business activities of municipal advisory professionals.

An independent survey administrator will distribute the survey to those individuals at registered municipal advisor firms who are designated as a regulatory contact for the MSRB. Survey recipients are invited to distribute it to other appropriate professionals within the firm. Municipal advisors who have previously indicated a willingness to complete the survey will also receive the survey, which will run from the week of June 16, 2014 until early July 2014.

“The MSRB hopes to collect survey information from as many municipal advisor professionals as possible,” said MSRB Executive Director Lynnette Kelly. “Because of the diversity of the industry, responses from variety of firms will play a central role in guiding the MSRB’s work to develop a professional qualifications program that makes sense for all municipal advisors.”

The MSRB will host a webinar to provide detailed instructions for completing the survey on Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. EDT. Registered municipal advisors will receive a registration link to the webinar from the MSRB.

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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