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Contact: Jennifer A. Galloway, Chief Communications Officer
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MSRB ENHANCES EMMA ALERTS TOOL

Washington, DC – Investors and others who track municipal bonds with email alerts from the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA®) website can now further customize their notifications and see more detail about the securities they follow.

As part of an ongoing effort to improve the usability of its EMMA website, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) has enhanced EMMA’s automated email alerts so that users can specify the types of continuing disclosure filings to trigger a notification. For example, an investor can choose to receive email alerts only when new audited financial statements or notices of bond calls are posted. Previously, users could opt to receive alerts for every financial disclosure or all event filings for one or more securities but could not narrow their selection to specific documents or events.

EMMA’s automated alerts have also been improved to include more useful details about the relevant bond and its associated trade activity or filing that triggered the alert.

“Thousands of investors and other EMMA users rely on the alerts feature to stay up to date with the latest available information on their securities,” said MSRB Executive Director Lynnette Kelly. “These enhancements allow users to be more selective about the types of alerts they wish to receive and provide more descriptive information about the nature of the alert.”

EMMA alerts are available for trade activity and when new disclosure documents are filed for one or more securities. Disclosure filings include annual financial information that provides an updated view of the issuer’s financial health and notices of events that can have an impact on the bonds. To access EMMA alerts, create a free MyEMMA account on the EMMA website.

The MSRB is continuing to consider additional changes to the alerts function to support website performance and usability. For unlimited real-time access to trade data and disclosure filings, the MSRB offers paid subscription services.

The MSRB’s EMMA website is the official source of data and disclosure documents on more than one million outstanding municipal securities. The MSRB operates the EMMA website in support of its mission to protect investors, state and local governments, and the public interest by promoting a fair and efficient municipal market.

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.

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