Chip Barnett is a journalist with almost 50 years of professional experience. He started his career at the Gannett Newspapers in Westchester County, N.Y., working his way up from back-shop compositor to Senior News Editor. Barnett later worked for Thomson Reuters in Manhattan, covering state and local government finance as a Reporter and later Executive Editor for TM3.com and as Editor in Charge of Municipal Finance for Reuters News. Later, he was the Editor of Municipal Finance Today at SourceMedia. Barnett has also worked for DebtWire/Municipals and has written about commercial real estate in South Florida and the Midwest for both The Real Deal and Globe Street. Barnett is currently a Reporter at The Bond Buyer.
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A record $6 billion of competitive bond and note sales have been placed on next weeks calendar, including billion dollar-plus megadeals from the states of Georgia and Maryland.
June 3 -
WisconsinDana Lach has returned to Foley & Lardners healthcare finance, public finance and finance and financial institutions practices, the law firm announced on Thursday. She will be working out of the firms Milwaukee office.
May 26 -
Frank Dos Santos has been named head of North America Business Strategy for Markits Fixed-Income Pricing service, the firm announced on Tuesday.
May 24 -
MassachusettsMass. Gov. Charles Baker released a $4 billion capital plan for Fiscal Year 2017 that includes a $2.19 billion cap on general obligation bond issuance, a 3% increase over the previous fiscal year.
May 20 -
Bankruptcy attorney Mark Kaufman has joined King & Spalding as a partner in its Atlanta and Washington, D.C., offices, the firm announced. He was formerly at Dentons, where he was a partner.
May 20 - Rhode Island
Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner nominated Sylvia Maxfield to serve on the State Investment Commission and Dr. Laura Shawhughes to serve on the State Retirement Board.
May 20 -
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authoritys operation of its federally mandated Access-A-Ride program has been marked by waste, mismanagement and widespread service failures, according to an audit released on Tuesday by Comptroller Scott M. Stringer.
May 18 -
Black Enterprise magazine has named Loop Capital Markets as its "Financial Services Company of the Year."
May 16 -
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May 13 -
For the 32nd straight week, municipal bond funds reported inflows, according to Lipper data released Thursday. Weekly reporting funds saw $1.212 billion of inflows in the week ended May 11, after inflows of $709.727 million in the previous week, Lipper said.
May 12 - New York
New York City on Tuesday announced new selling groups for its general obligation bonds and securities issued by the Transitional Finance Authority and Municipal Water Finance Authority.
May 11 -
Top shelf municipal bonds were slightly stronger at mid-session, according to traders, as several large water and wastewater deals from issuers in Texas and California came to market.
May 10 -
Municipal bond traders are seeing the start of the week's big new issues come to market, led on Tuesday by several large water deals from issuers in Texas and California.
May 10 -
Top-rated municipal bonds finished mostly steady on Monday, traders said, as the market got set for more volume to come its way this week.
May 9 -
Top-rated municipal bonds were mostly steady at mid-session, traders said, as the market gets set to see more volume come its way this week.
May 9 - New York
The Municipal Forum of New York chose 45 New York City high school seniors to be Urban Leadership Fellows for 2016.
May 9 -
The municipal bond market is set to see more volume come its way this week, with the $7.9 billion calendar topped off by a big sale from a California issuer.
May 9 -
Top-shelf municipal bonds finished stronger Friday, according to traders, ahead of the upcoming $7.9 billion new-issue calendar.
May 6 -
Ramirez & Co. has hired Paula Dagen as a Senior Managing Director in New York and Michael Mejia as a Vice President in Los Angeles as part of its recent expansion efforts, the firm announced on Friday.
May 6 -
Top-shelf municipal bonds were stronger at mid-session, according to traders, ahead of next week's $7.9 billion new issue calendar.
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