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


MUNICIPAL SECURITIES RULEMAKING BOARD ADDS FEATURES TO EMMA THAT
FACILITATE SUBMISSION OF CONTINUING DISCLOSURE DOCUMENTS

Alexandria, VA - The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) announced today it has enhanced its Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) website to make it easier to submit continuing disclosure documents.  The changes include a feature that automatically saves lists of securities so that future submissions can be easily and quickly applied to those securities.  In addition, users now also can search for securities directly from the EMMA submission screen and easily make a submission against a large number of securities - as many as 6,000.

The MSRB made the changes in response to EMMA user feedback and all submitters of continuing disclosure information, including municipal securities issuers and others, will benefit from the ease-of-use changes. Please click here to read about the enhancements to EMMA.

EMMA, which is a service of the MSRB, is the centralized, electronic repository for all municipal bond disclosure documents and trade data.  EMMA collects and makes available to investors hundreds of thousands of municipal bond offering documents, the prices of millions of municipal trades, as well as interest rates and auction results for auction rate securities, interest rates for variable rate demand obligations, daily market statistics and educational material about municipal bonds.


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. 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. 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. MSRB is overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Congress.