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Test Your Knowledge of Best Practices for Issuing Municipal Bonds
Whether your community issues municipal bonds once a year or once every 10 years, it pays to be an informed issuer. A free online course developed specifically for municipal government professionals provides engaging lessons to highlight best practices and potential pitfalls of the bond issuance process.
Created with input from senior government finance professionals, the
course allows participants to assume the role of an official responsible for
issuing municipal bonds. Pick a financing team, practice financing projects
using real-world scenarios and earn continuing professional education credit at
no cost.
The course, "Being an Informed Municipal Bond Issuer," highlights best practices and potential pitfalls in the municipal bond issuance
process—information that
is useful for elected officials as well as any government professional involved
in a bond transaction. Among the topics covered in the course are the roles and
responsibilities of key members of the financing team and the disclosure obligations
of an issuer.
"Being an Informed Municipal Bond
Issuer" is part of
the MSRB’s MuniEdPro℠, a suite of interactive, online
courses designed specifically for municipal market participants.
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Register for MuniEdPro℠ to take the free, 45-minute course.
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any organization that wants to provide the course to a broad audience, it can
be integrated into in-house learning management systems. Contact Ritta
McLaughlin at rmclaughlin@msrb.org or 202-838-1306.
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 Featured Video: Experience MuniEdPro℠
Watch a video to discover how MuniEdPro℠ courses
use real-world scenarios to reinforce understanding of municipal market
activities and regulations.
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Each issuer has a unique issuer homepage on the MSRB’s Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA®) website with all their disclosure documents and recent trade data. Issuers can exercise more control over how their information is presented on EMMA by customizing their issuer homepage.
- Update abbreviations of the issuer name to plain English
- Confirm list of issues associated with the issuer
- Provide contact information
- Link to websites with more information for investors
View all homepages in your state using EMMA’s map-based “Browse Issuers” search. Customized homepages are indicated with a label.
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 The MSRB
conducts in-person and webcast educational outreach events for state and local
government organizations to highlight tools and resources to
empower bond issuers at the deal table. At MSRB outreach events, participants
can learn about the regulatory protections governing what issuers
should expect from municipal finance professionals; bond issuers'
obligations related to continuing disclosure; and useful features of the
MSRB's Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA®) website
specifically for issuers. Recent outreach events include:
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 Utah Government Finance Officers Association Spring Conference
St. George, UT - April 20, 2017
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Iowa Municipal Finance Officers Association Spring Conference
Des Moines, IA - April 20, 2017
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 Council of Infrastructure Finance Authorities Policy Conference
Washington, DC - April 19, 2017
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National Association of Health and Educational Finance Authorities Spring Conference
Alexandria, VA - April 5, 2017
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To inquire about having the MSRB participate in an event, contact Ritta McLaughlin, Chief Education Officer, at rmclaughlin@msrb.org or
202-838-1306.
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It's Your Deal is
a new quarterly resource guide published by the MSRB to provide objective
and useful information to state and local governments that issue
municipal bonds. As part of its mission to protect municipal bond issuers,
the MSRB regulates municipal advisors and municipal securities dealers,
operates the Electronic Municipal Market Access
(EMMA®) website, and offers free educational resources in the MSRB Education Center.
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