[ by Melanie Gretchen ] MSRB has appointed to its board Kym Arnone, Managing Director and Head of Municipal Securitization Initiatives at Barclays, and Craig Noble, a Managing Director and Head of the Retail Fixed Income Group for Wells Fargo Advisors.  They are among the 7 new members to its Board of Directors for Fiscal Year 2013. What Does the MSRB Do? The 21-member Board establishes policies, approves rule-making, enhances market transparency systems, and oversees operations for the self-regulatory organization for the municipal securities market.  Chosen from a pool of 130 applicants, the 7 will serve a 3-year term, including:

• Kym Arnone, Managing Director and Head of Municipal Securitization Initiatives at Barclays
• Craig Noble, Managing Director and Head of the Retail Fixed Income Group for Wells Fargo Advisors
• Richard Ellis, Treasurer for the state of Utah

• Bartley Hildreth, Professor of Public Management and Policy at Georgia State University
• Gene Saffold, independent consultant
• Robin Wiessmann, former Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
• Marianne Edmonds, Senior Managing Director for Public Resources Advisory Group, joins the Board as a municipal advisor representative

For further details and the new members' bios, go to [MSRB, 8/1/12].