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Identifying the Obligor for Municipal Securities

By Campbell Pryde, President and CEO, XBRL US The complexities of the municipal bond market make it challenging for users of bond data to quickly find what they need when searching in the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) Electronic Municipal Markets Access (EMMA) system. A single bond issue can have more than one security, and […more]


Defining Success for the FDTA

By Campbell Pryde, President and CEO, XBRL US. The standardization of regulatory requirements called for in the FDTA is of critical importance to us all. Why? As regulators consider implementation of the FDTA, and as stakeholders respond to the cross-agency rule proposal that we expect to see any day now, it is important to keep in mind what constitutes success: Better Data, Reduced Cost, Flexibility.