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 MUNICIPAL SECURITIES RULEMAKING BOARD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DISCUSSES FINANICAL REFORM LAW

Alexandria, VA – Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Executive Director Lynnette Kelly Hotchkiss today discussed the expanded mandate of the MSRB under the new financial reform law on Reuters Insider, a service of financial news company Thomson Reuters. 

Effective October 1, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act broadens the mission of the MSRB to include the protection of state and local governments and other municipal entities, in addition to investors and the public interest. The Act charges the MSRB with regulating municipal advisors, including financial advisors to state and local governments in connection with municipal securities, and other advisors to issuers and other municipal entities about financial products such as derivatives and guaranteed investment contracts.

With the MSRB’s expanded mission, the governing body of the MSRB will be reconstituted to consist of a majority of independent public members and include representation of municipal advisors, along with other regulated entities such as broker-dealers and banks. 

Click here to view the interview.

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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