California Municipal Statistics

What California Municipal Statistics does

California Municipal Statistics, Inc. (Calmuni) is a privately held financial data and disclosure services company founded in 1932 and headquartered in Oakland, California. The company provides California municipal bond information, research, and disclosure-related services to the financial community, including investment professionals, broker-dealers, and financial institutions active in the California municipal market. Its core offerings consist of three lines: Data and Analytical Services built on a proprietary municipal bond database that the company claims is the largest and most comprehensive collection of California municipal issues in existence, with over twenty database fields and full maturity schedules; Official Statement Services covering preparation of debt and property tax disclosures for bond offerings; and Continuing Disclosure Services supporting issuers' annual regulatory compliance.

The underlying technology is a curated California municipal bond database augmented by a Forward Municipal Calendar that is updated continuously throughout the day, a California Issuer Search Engine for issuer-name lookup, and weekly research reports delivered in Adobe Acrobat format. Distribution is primarily through a channel partnership with BONDjournal, whose subscribers gain access to the research reports, calendar, search engine, and underlying database. The company describes itself as a small, highly productive organization with 1-10 employees, and uses direct email contact via [email protected] for general and employment inquiries. Revenue mechanics are split between recurring subscription access (data and continuing disclosure) and project-based or per-deal professional services fees (official statement preparation), though pricing is not publicly disclosed. The company has no disclosed funding history, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no identified leadership team in the available materials.

Name

California Municipal Statistics

Legal name

California Municipal Statistics, Inc.

Website

https://calmuni.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1932

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

California Municipal Statistics, Inc. (Calmuni), founded in 1932 and headquartered in Oakland, California, provides California municipal bond data, research reports, and disclosure services to the financial community through a proprietary bond database distributed via the BONDjournal subscription platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Bond Data and Disclosure Services

NAICS

Information (51)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Municipal Bond Strategies (Tax-Exempt/TAXABLE Munis) (FSAAAHAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Government Bonds & Agencies (Sovereigns, Supras, Munis) (FSAAAHAA)

Keywords

• Municipal bond data
• Bond research reports
• Financial disclosure services
• Official statement preparation
• Continuing disclosure compliance

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Data and Analytical Services: Data-driven insights derived from the extensive bond database provided to subscribers and clients in the financial community.
2. Official Statement Services: Preparation of debt and property tax disclosures for official statements and bond offerings.
3. Continuing Disclosure Services: Timely and accurate disclosure services to ensure annual compliance with regulatory requirements for municipal bond issuers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

California Municipal Statistics (Calmuni) provides disclosure and research services for the California municipal bond market. Its core offerings are Data and Analytical Services derived from its proprietary California municipal bond database, Official Statement Services that prepare debt and property tax disclosures for bond offerings, and Continuing Disclosure Services that ensure issuers meet annual regulatory reporting requirements.

Product overview

California Municipal Statistics (Calmuni) operates as a data and research services company offering a unified suite of disclosure and analytical services for the California municipal bond market. The core offerings consist of Data and Analytical Services (leveraging their extensive bond database), Official Statement Services (for debt and property tax disclosures), and Continuing Disclosure Services (for regulatory compliance). These are delivered alongside BONDjournal, a subscription-based research platform that provides access to the Forward Municipal Calendar, Calmuni Research Reports, California Issuer Search Engine, and the underlying Calmuni Municipal Bond Database containing all known California municipal issues with over twenty data fields and maturity scheduling.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Data and Analytical Services

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• BONDjournalcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBONDjournal serves as a distribution platform for Calmuni's research reports and database services. Subscribers to BONDjournal gain access to Calmuni Research Reports (published weekly in Adobe Acrobat format), Forward Municipal Calendar, California Issuer Search Engine, and the full Calmuni municipal bond database. This partnership enables Calmuni to reach the broader financial community with its services.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves2 records

Broad incumbents

• Intercontinental Exchange (ICE): Through ICE Data Services and fixed-income pricing/analytics, ICE provides bond data and reference data to institutional investors, directly competing for muni data subscriptions at the institutional level.
• Moody's Analytics: Combines credit ratings, municipal data, and analytics for institutional fixed-income users; offers overlapping municipal bond data and surveillance capabilities to a similar financial community customer base.
• LSEG (Refinitiv): Through the Refinitiv fixed-income data franchise, LSEG provides broad municipal bond data, pricing, and analytics to institutional clients, overlapping heavily with Calmuni's data subscription offering.
• Mergent: Provides fixed-income and municipal securities data and reference information as part of a broader corporate and issuer data platform; comparable to Calmuni in curating bond-level reference data for institutional users.
• Bloomberg L.P. Global financial data and analytics terminal that includes U.S. municipal bond coverage and is the dominant institutional platform for fixed-income data; an incumbent any specialist municipal data vendor must compete against.
• S&P Global Market Intelligence: Provides fixed-income and municipal securities data, surveillance, and analytics as part of a much broader financial information platform; competes for the same institutional research and disclosure data budgets.

Direct peers

• The Bond Buyer: Long-running news, data, and research outlet for the U.S. municipal bond market; competes for the same institutional research and data wallet as Calmuni, albeit with a national rather than state-specific lens.
• DPC Data: Specialist municipal bond data and analytics provider serving institutional investors with issue-level data, comparable in niche focus to Calmuni but operating at a national scale rather than California-only.

Others

• MSRB (Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board) / EMMA: Regulator-operated free disclosure portal for municipal securities and continuing disclosure documents; acts as the public backbone against which Calmuni's paid aggregation, curation, and analytics add value.
• SourceMedia / Arizent (Bond Buyer parent): B2B media and information group serving the municipal bond and broader financial services industry; owns the Bond Buyer and adjacent data products, making it a related ecosystem participant rather than a direct competitor to Calmuni's database.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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