Caitlin Devitt has covered the municipal bond market since 2008. She began her journalism career at the Herald Newspapers on the South Side of Chicago, starting as a reporter and rising to Managing Editor. While at The Bond Buyer, she covered the Detroit bankruptcy among other Midwest-based stories. Devitt joined Debtwire Municipals in 2016, where she covered the high-yield municipal bond market for five years, before returning to the Bond Buyer as Senior Infrastructure Reporter. She lives in Chicago with her family.
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Independent Financial Group, LLC failed to ensure its employees were offering low-cost options to retail customers looking to rollover a 529 plan to another state.
December 2 -
Sen. Jodi Ernst, R-Iowa, who will chair a Department of Government Efficiency Senate caucus next year, wants to kill federal support for the California high-speed train.
November 26 -
A hearing for four separate federal lawsuits seeking to block the congestion pricing plan is set for Dec. 20.
November 25 -
States eye green bonds, superfund and cap-and-invest programs to fund resilient infrastructure needs The tools come with risks, like legal challenges to "polluter pay" funds or potential corporate departures with cap-and-invest programs.
November 22 -
The Republicans are using "magic math" to disguise the cost of extending the TCJA, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said.
November 21 -
Skeptical lawmakers, a new administration in Baton Rouge, and construction change orders all meant repeated delays in commercial close of the P3.
November 21 -
The group of five banks deny long-standing charges from a Minnesota-based whistleblower that they conspired to artificially inflate the rates on variable-rate demand bonds.
November 19 -
Now a Fox Business host, Duffy while in Congress sat on the Financial Services, Budget and Joint Economic committees.
November 19 -
The announcement of $3.4 billion in grants for rail, roads and clean-energy efforts comes on the third anniversary of Biden's signature legislation.
November 15 -
New Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who played a key role in negotiations of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, noted at the time the "fierce support in both chambers" for tax-exempt private activity bonds.
November 14 -
The finance team burned the midnight oil to assemble and market one of the most complex deals in the municipal market this year.
November 14 -
Trump's proposed corporate tax cut, if enacted, would further concentrate the buyer base and increase the chance of volatility, said Wells Fargo head of municipal strategy Vikram Rai.
November 13 -
"If the GOP wins the House, the specter of risk to the municipal bond tax-exemption will increase," said Edwin Oswald, a tax partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in Washington D.C.
November 6 -
Eric Goldwyn of the Marron Institute's Transit Costs Project joins The Bond Buyer's Caitlin Devitt to talk about his latest report that offers five recommendations to speed up the delivery of high-speed trains in the U.S.
September 17 -
The Grants Pass decision was viewed as the most consequential for local governments of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent session.
July 12 -
Darren Olson of the American Society of Civil Engineers joins to discuss the importance of resilient infrastructure and the impact of federal funding on America's future.
June 11 -
One investor is offloading the debt, while another sees an opportunity.
March 8 -
Robert Poole, a leading expert in the U.S. public-private partnership transportation sector, joins infrastructure reporter Caitlin Devitt to talk about upcoming deals including toll lanes and bridges in the Southeast and high speed rail in the West as well as states that are advancing P3s and action on the federal front. (37 minutes)
February 20 -
The hire by Missouri-based Stifel comes as some broker-dealers trim ranks amid weak issuance.
October 17 -
The commonwealth revamped its P3 law last year in the wake of a court ruling striking down a tolled bridge program.
October 17
