MSRB

The MSRB's decision to rescind the one-minute trade reporting deadline "comes after months of dialogue and engagement with market participants," MSRB President and CEO Mark Kim said.

The muni market's self-regulatory organization has undergone major changes in its five decades, and challenges are ahead.

"It is FINRA's position that, for multiple reasons discussed in its brief opposing Alpine's petition for writ of certiorari, the case did not meet the Supreme Court's standards for review," FINRA said.

MSRB's goal is to address the public comments it received and to file a new rate card with the SEC before the end of the year, a spokesperson said.

MSRB appreciates "the robust stakeholder engagement and response" to its requests for feedback on both the rate card and a municipal fund securities concept release, Board Chair Bo Daniels said.

Responses to an MSRB request for comment indicated broad support for an option designed to modernize delivery of municipal fund securities disclosure documents, but there was less unanimity regarding the need for a stand-alone time of trade disclosure rule.

The MSRB's rate card RFI and municipal fund securities will be among agenda topics at next week's quarterly board meeting.

In a 52 to 44 vote Wednesday, the Senate voted to confirm the nomination of President Trump's pick to lead the SEC.

Muni data is complicated, confusing and unstandardized, and analysts say there's a cost to that. 

If the MSRB pursues a pre-trade transparency initiative—though its necessity is debatable given the private sector has already addressed this need—it should leverage existing tools and services used by market participants.