MSRB EMMA lists political contribution disclosures for municipal market participants

MSRB EMMA lists political contribution disclosures for municipal market participants
MSRB EMMA: political disclosures

Political contribution disclosures for dealers and municipal advisors are available through the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's EMMA platform. The database covers filings tied to municipal entity officials, state and local political parties, and bond ballot referendum committees.

Highlights

  • MSRB's EMMA platform now offers searchable disclosure access for political contributions by dealers and municipal advisors through Forms G-37, G-37x, and G-38t.
  • Users can filter filings by full or partial dealer or municipal advisor names, with broader searches potentially taking several minutes to generate results.
  • Centralized disclosure access enhances compliance monitoring and transparency for municipal market participants regarding relationships with issuers, political organizations, and referendum committees.

Search access and filing scope

As reported by Electronic Municipal Market Access, users can review disclosures related to political contributions made by dealers and municipal advisors and download documents by clicking on a submission ID.

The search tool covers Forms G-37, G-37x and G-38t, including former Form G-37/G-38 filings. Users can enter a full or partial dealer or municipal advisor name, while broader searches may take several minutes to complete.

EMMA also provides an option to add criteria through the Search button to narrow results and refine document retrieval.

Compliance visibility in the municipal market

The disclosures give market participants and the public a centralized way to review political contribution activity linked to municipal finance professionals. That supports transparency around relationships involving municipal issuers, political organizations and referendum committees.

For firms and advisors operating in the municipal securities sector, the filing access function helps compliance review and record retrieval as they monitor obligations under the relevant forms.

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