Abha Mohla is a Director in the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s (MSRB) Market Regulation department where she supervises attorneys in the department and advises the Chief Regulatory and Policy Officer on legal and policy matters relating to the MSRB’s rulemaking, compliance support, and regulatory coordination initiatives. Abha also leads compliance and education initiatives at the MSRB, including serving as staff liaison on MSRB’s Compliance Advisory Group and Municipal Fund Securities Advisory Group. As staff liaison, she helps facilitate stakeholder engagement by steering both groups in providing input to MSRB and its Board of Directors on municipal market rules, market practices, and education related to municipal securities, including municipal fund securities.

Prior to joining MSRB, Abha spent seven years at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). During her tenure at FINRA, Abha served as an Enforcement Counsel advising examination staff and analysts and handling disposition of matters involving a wide range of securities industry violations. Abha also held the position of Associate Principal Analyst in FINRA’s Market Regulation Department where she focused on cross-market surveillance reviews and investigations for the U.S. equity market regulated by FINRA. Prior to joining FINRA, Abha practiced securities law at Snyder Kearney, LLC where she focused on the representation of broker-dealers in connection with their due diligence of public and private securities offerings, with a concentration on non-exchange traded real estate investment trusts.

Abha earned a bachelor's degree in finance from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and a J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law.

About the MSRB

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) was established by Congress in 1975 with the mission to protect investors, issuers and the public interest and to promote efficiency, competition and capital formation. MSRB is a private, self-regulatory organization governed by an independent board of directors with market knowledge and expertise. MSRB does not receive federal appropriations and is funded primarily through fees paid by regulated entities. MSRB is overseen by Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission