NEW YORK, NY, FEBRUARY 13, 2019 – CUSIP Global Services (CGS) today announced the release of its CUSIP Issuance Trends Report for January 2019. The report, which tracks the issuance of new security identifiers as an early indicator of debt and capital markets activity over the next quarter, found significant year-over-year volume decreases in requests for new corporate identifiers and significant year-over-year increases in requests for new municipal identifiers.