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Contact: Jennifer A. Galloway, Chief Communications Officer
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MSRB PROPOSES PERMANENT 21-MEMBER BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Alexandria, VA – The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today proposed to establish a permanent 21-member, public-majority Board of Directors.

Following the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the MSRB increased, on a transitional basis, the size of its Board of Directors from 15 to 21 members. The MSRB also provided for municipal advisor representation on the Board, as a result of its new rulemaking authority over municipal advisors, and modified the Board’s composition to include a majority of independent public members. The MSRB is now proposing to make this transitional Board structure permanent. Under the proposal, the 21 Board members would serve staggered, three-year terms.

“The MSRB’s Board of Directors has been very effective in carrying out its mission and representing the diversity of the municipal market,” said MSRB Executive Director Lynnette Kelly Hotchkiss. “Our rulemaking initiatives have benefited from the numerous perspectives represented on the Board.”

The MSRB Board of Directors includes representatives of investors and municipal entities, as well as representatives of the organizations regulated by the MSRB, which include bank dealers, broker-dealers and municipal advisors.

Comments on the proposal should be submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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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