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Municipal Bond Insurance

• Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) - The Electronic Municipal Market Access system, or EMMA, is a comprehensive, centralized on-line source for free access to official statements, advance refunding documents and real-time trade price information on municipal securities. Emma is provided by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).
• National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. - National Guarantee is a monoline municipal bond insurer, which provides guarantees to the U.S. public finance market. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of MBIA INC and independently capitalized with its own claims paying resources.
• National Public Finance Guarantee Credit Sector Reports - Useful municipal finance credit sector studies published by municipal bond insurer, National Public Finance Guarantee. Visitors must register to see reports but access is free.
• The Postwar Quality of State and Local Debt - The Postwar Quality of State and Local Debt by George H. Hempel; Published in 1971 by National Bureau of Economic Research. Seminal study on municipal debt characteristics, including historical default data during the Great Depression.
• ACA Capital - ACA Capital is a specialized financial services company, focused on assuming, managing and trading credit risk in the municipal finance, corporate finance and structured finance capital markets.
• AMBAC - The Company is a leading provider of financial guarantees to the public finance, structured, asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities sectors.
• Assured Guaranty - Assured Guaranty Corp. is a financial guaranty company and is focused on the mortgage-backed, asset-backed, public finance, structured finance and structured credit markets.
• Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. (FGIC) - FGIC provides credit enhancement on public finance, structured finance and asset-backed securities.
• Financial Security Assurance - Financial Security Assurance (FSA) provides financial guaranty insurance for asset-backed securities, municipal bonds and other structured obligations in the global markets.
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Municipal Bond Trading & Underwriting

• Bondheads - Daily collection of key articles on the bond market from a wide variety of news sources.
• Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) - The Electronic Municipal Market Access system, or EMMA, is a comprehensive, centralized on-line source for free access to official statements, advance refunding documents and real-time trade price information on municipal securities. Emma is provided by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).
• Handbook of Municipal Bonds - Amazon link to Handbook of Municipal Bonds (edited by Sylvan Feldstein)
• Investing in Bonds (Bond Market Association site) - FINRA site includes municipal bond market prices applying to the previous day. Also educational info.
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