Municipal Bond Credit Report: SEC looks for dialogue at municipal disclosure conference
Municipal Bond Credit Report: WASHINGTON – The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking for feedback from the municipal bond market on disclosure issues that have been the subject of debate…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Illinois sales tax bond rating takes a five-notch hit
Municipal Bond Credit Report: CHICAGO – Illinois’ sales tax-backed bonds took a five notch hit from S&P Global Ratings as a result of revised criteria published last week that more…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Chicago’s $1.3B Sales Tax Securitization deal placed on day-to-day status
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Chicago’s $1.3 billion deal Sales Tax Securitization Corp., tentatively scheduled to price Wednesday, was moved to the day-to-day calendar, according to deal participants. Bookrunner Loop Capital…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Pennsylvania panel in home stretch on pension overhaul study
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Pennsylvania’s pension commission, after three public hearings, will complete its review of the state’s two major funds and report its findings to Gov. Tom Wolf and…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: What MSRB decided at its first meeting of fiscal 2019
Municipal Bond Credit Report: WASHINGTON – The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has agreed to collect new data from muni issuances and to seek further comment aimed at producing new guidance…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Indy’s improving finances earn it outlook upgrade
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Indianapolis’ growing record of keeping its finances structurally balanced has earned the city an outlook upgrade from Kroll Bond Ratings Agency. Kroll raised the outlook to…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Chicago Public Schools fares better on short-term rates
Municipal Bond Credit Report: CHICAGO – Chicago Public Schools slashed its short-term borrowing rates by more than two percentage points in its first tax anticipation note issue of the fiscal…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Skanska to stop bidding on U.S. P3s because of losses
Municipal Bond Credit Report: In a blow for the future development of P3s in the U.S., an international player plans to end its involvement in the sector because the “risk-reward”…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Prophet of Muni Market Doom Wasn’t Wrong—Just Early
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Eleven years ago next week, a then-obscure bank analyst made the call of a lifetime when she said Citigroup would be brought low by bad mortgage…
Municipal Bond Credit Report: Why investors would likely benefit from public pre-trade information
Municipal Bond Credit Report: WASHINGTON – The pre-trade information available on alternative trading systems to broker-dealer participants would likely benefit all municipal securities investors if made more publicly available, the…
