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

MSRB TO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POST-TRADE DATA FOR DISPLAY ON EMMA

Alexandria, VA – The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to enhance the transparency of municipal securities transactions by collecting additional post-trade data for display on the MSRB’s Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA®) website. Municipal securities dealers will soon be required to use a new indication for trades that occurred on an alternative trading system (ATS), among other changes. 

“The MSRB’s EMMA website provides an unrivaled window into the trading of municipal securities for investors and other market participants,” said MSRB Executive Director Lynnette Kelly. “With the addition of useful new data points, the market – regulators included – will gain a better understanding of the ever-evolving practice of trading municipal securities, particularly the growing use of ATSs.” 

The new data reporting requirements for dealers are included in amendments to MSRB Rule G-14 on trade reporting and the MSRB’s facility for its Real-Time Transaction Reporting System (RTRS). The requirements take effect on May 23, 2016, giving dealer firms one year to implement the necessary system changes. The MSRB will provide updated technical documentation to assist firms with this process. 

In a reflection of current market practices, the amendments expand the application of existing list offering price and takedown indicators as well as add a new indicator to identify trades involving non-transaction-based compensation arrangements. Additionally, the MSRB is eliminating the requirement for dealers to report yield on customer trade reports and, instead, enabling the MSRB to calculate and disseminate yield on customer trades. 

The new data will be collected from dealers through RTRS and made available to the public by paid subscription and for free on the EMMA website, the official repository for information on virtually all municipal securities. EMMA provides free public access to official disclosures, trade data, credit ratings, educational materials and other information about 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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