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

MSRB INVITES MUNICIPAL SECURITIES INVESTORS TO EDUCATIONAL VIDEO SERIES:
DIVING INTO THE DOCUMENTS

Alexandria, VA – The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today announced that it is offering a free six-week video series to educate municipal securities investors about fundamental disclosure documents. Each installment of the “Diving into the Documents” video series will be distributed to subscribers of the MSRB’s investor education email list. Sign up here. The series will also be available in its entirety in the MSRB’s Education Center.

“As part of our mission to protect investors, the MSRB develops engaging, multimedia educational resources about the complex municipal securities market,” said MSRB Executive Director Lynnette Kelly. “This video series brings to life the important information contained in a bond’s official statement and financial disclosure documents.”

“Diving into the Documents” will focus on the core disclosure documents that investors can refer to in order to make informed investing decisions. The series will also address how to find disclosure documents on the MSRB’s Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA®) website, the official repository for information on virtually all municipal securities.

Program Agenda

  • October 31, 2014: Why Official Statements Matter
  • November 7, 2014: What’s Inside an Official Statement
  • November 14, 2014: Where to Find Official Statements on EMMA®
  • November 21, 2014: Why Financial Disclosure Matters
  • December 5, 2014: What’s Inside Financial Disclosure Documents
  • December 12, 2014: Where to Find Financial Disclosures on EMMA®

Sign up for the MSRB’s investor education email list to watch the weekly video and access additional related resources. All videos and supplemental resources will be available in the MSRB Education Center, an online library of free, objective information on the municipal securities 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. 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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