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Investor and Municipal Advisory Client Education and Protection
Rule Summary: Requires dealers and municipal advisors to provide certain notices to customers and clients within specified timeframes.
Dealers, Municipal Advisors, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Primary Offering Practices
Rule Summary: Establishes terms and conditions for sales by dealers of new issues of municipal securities in primary offerings, including provisions on priority of customer orders.
Dealers, Bank Dealers
Quotations Relating to Municipal Securities
Rule Summary: Requires quotations distributed or published by a dealer to represent bona fide bids or offers of municipal securities, based upon the dealer’s best judgment of the fair market value of the securities, and prohibits misrepresentation of another dealer’s quotations.
Dealers, Bank Dealers
Confirmation, Clearance, Settlement and Other Uniform Practice Requirements with Respect to Transactions with Customers
Rule Summary: Requires dealers to provide customers with written confirmations of transactions, containing specified information, including mark-ups and mark-downs, and prescribes certain uniform practice procedures for dealers that transact municipal securities business with customers.
Dealers, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Notice
MSRB to Retire Select Interpretive Guidance Regarding Inter-Dealer Confirmation Disclosures
Notice
MSRB Adopts Amendments to Rules G-12 and G-15, Shortening Regular-Way Settlement for Municipal Securities Transactions to T+1
Conduct of Municipal Securities and Municipal Advisory Activities
Rule Summary: Requires dealers and municipal advisors to deal fairly with all persons and not to engage in any deceptive, dishonest or unfair practice.
Dealers, Municipal Advisors, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Best Execution
Rule Summary: Requires dealers to use reasonable diligence to ascertain the best market for the subject security and buy or sell in that market so that the resultant price to the customer is as favorable as possible under prevailing market conditions.
Dealers, Bank Dealers
Suitability of Recommendations and Transactions
Rule Summary: Sets standards for recommendations by dealers to customers of purchases, sales or exchanges of municipal securities.
Dealers, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Advertising by Brokers, Dealers or Municipal Securities Dealers
Rule Summary: Prohibits dealers from publishing false or misleading advertisements relating to municipal securities or concerning the facilities, services or skills of any dealer; establishes specific requirements for advertisements of new issues and municipal fund securities; and requires a municipal securities or general securities principal to approve in writing advertisements prior to first use.
Dealers, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Guidance
FAQs regarding the Use of Social Media under MSRB Rule G-21, on Advertising by Brokers, Dealers or Municipal Securities Dealers, and MSRB Rule G-40, on Advertising by Municipal Advisors
Control Relationships
Rule Summary: Prohibits discretionary account transactions and effecting purchase and sale transactions of municipal securities by dealers, where the dealer has a control relationship with respect to the security, absent disclosure to the customer of such relationship.
Dealers, Bank Dealers
Activities of Financial Advisors
Rule Summary: Requires dealers to evidence in writing financial advisory relationships and prohibits dealers from serving as financial advisor and underwriter or placement agent on the same issue.
Dealers, Bank Dealers
Use of Ownership Information Obtained in Fiduciary or Agency Capacity
Rule Summary: Prohibits dealers from using non-public information obtained in the course of certain fiduciary or agency capacities concerning the ownership of securities in furtherance of their business activities or for financial gain.
Dealers, Bank Dealers
Improper Use of Assets
Rule Summary: Prohibits dealers from improperly using municipal securities or funds held on behalf of another person, guaranteeing customers against loss in customer accounts and transactions, and sharing in profits and losses of customer accounts and transactions by any dealer.
Dealers, Bank Dealers
Customer Account Transfers
Rule Summary: Ensures that a uniform account transfer standard applies to all dealers.
Dealers, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Transactions with Employees and Partners of Other Municipal Securities Professionals
Rule Summary: Establishes requirements for dealers who open accounts or effect transactions in municipal securities for a customer who is known to be an employee or partner of another dealer.
Dealers, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Prices and Commissions
Rule Summary: Requires dealers to effect transactions in municipal securities with customers at fair and reasonable prices, if acting as principal, and to make reasonable efforts to obtain fair and reasonable prices for customers and to charge fair and reasonable commissions, if acting as agent.
Dealers, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Reciprocal Dealings with Municipal Securities Investment Companies
Rule Summary: Prohibits the solicitation of transactions in municipal securities with or for an investment company account in return for sales by the dealer of shares or units in the investment company.
Dealers, Bank Dealers
Calculations
Rule Summary: Prescribes standard formulas for the computation of accrued interest, dollar price and yield; sets standards for accuracy; and establishes day-counting methods.
Dealers, Bank Dealers
Political Contributions and Prohibitions on Municipal Securities Business and Municipal Advisory Business
Rule Summary: Prohibits dealers from engaging in municipal securities business and municipal advisors from engaging in municipal advisory business with municipal entities if certain contributions have been made to officials of such municipal entities within the preceding two-year period, and requires dealers and municipal advisors to disclose certain political contributions and other information.
Dealers, Municipal Advisors, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Telemarketing
Rule Summary: Establishes telemarketing requirements with respect to the municipal securities activities of dealers.
Dealers, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Broker’s Brokers
Rule Summary: Establishes duties of dealers acting as broker’s brokers, including when conducting auctions of municipal securities known as “bid-wanteds”; requires broker’s brokers to establish policies and procedures regarding bid-wanteds and offerings; and prohibits certain wrongful conduct.
Dealers, Bank Dealers
Reporting of Information on Municipal Fund Securities
Rule Summary: Requires dealers, when acting in the capacity of an underwriter for a 529 savings plan or ABLE program, to submit information on a semi-annual or, in the case of performance data, annual basis, to the MSRB.
Dealers, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
Time of Trade Disclosure
Rule Summary: Requires dealers to disclose to customers at or prior to the time of trade all material information known or available publicly through established industry sources.
Dealers, Bank Dealers, Municipal Fund Securities
SEC Filing
Proposed Rule Change to Amend MSRB Rule G-47, on Time of Trade Disclosure, to Codify and Retire Certain Existing Interpretive Guidance and Add New Time of Trade Disclosure Scenarios
Notice
SEC Approves Amendments to Rule G-47 to Add Three New Time of Trade Disclosure Scenarios, Codify and Consolidate Existing Guidance, Delete Certain Guidance, and Make Technical Amendments
Transactions with Sophisticated Municipal Market Professionals
Rule Summary: Provides for modified dealer regulatory obligations under other MSRB rules when dealing with sophisticated municipal market professionals.
Dealers, Bank Dealers