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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The agency cited “the appropriation of the full actuarial pension contribution in fiscal 2022 for the first time in 26 years" coupled with improved reserves.
January 12 -
“We are anticipating a substantial present value savings as a result of our being proactive,” said the spokeswoman for state Treasurer John Schroder.
January 12 -
Building on the success of its Green Liberty Bonds, a subsidiary of the Connecticut Green Bank will allow mom and pop investors to place orders for as little as $100 for Green Liberty Notes until Friday.
January 10 -
Gov. Kathy Hochul's “New Era for New York" initiative includes a $10 billion healthcare proposal, a $1 billion plan to help small businesses, middle-class tax relief, ethics reforms and limiting statewide elected officials to two terms.
January 6 -
"There is no person who has done more to keep the New York City budget sound than Ronnie Lowenstein,” says Richard Ravitch. "She is a remarkable public servant.”
January 5 -
The competitive tax-exempt Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District deal is climate bond certified by Kestrel Verifiers.
January 5 -
Todd Cipperman, founding principal of Cipperman Compliance Services, talks with Chip Barnett about compliance and disclosure and regulation by the federal government in 2022. (42 minutes)
January 4 -
The new office is the firm’s first in the Southeast region.
January 4 -
Marjorie Henning was named deputy comptroller for public finance and Michael Haddad is interim chief investment officer and deputy comptroller for asset management.
January 3 -
The Bond Buyer takes a look back and remembers those in the public finance industry who died in 2021.
December 30 -
Fitch raised the CBOE’s issuer default rating and outstanding unlimited tax GOs to BB-plus from BB and outstanding dedicated capital improvement tax bonds to A from A-minus.
December 29 -
A $10.85 million private placement of special assessment revenue bonds for the Ojus Sanitary Sewer Special Benefit Area will foster economic development.
December 29 -
The rating agency also confirmed the city’s Ba2 rating on $191 million of outstanding water and sewer revenue bonds.
December 23 -
The New York State Common Retirement Fund also said it invested $2 billion in an index focused on reducing the risks of climate change and capitalizing on opportunities in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
December 23 -
Over the next 10 years, the Division of Bond Finance forecasts about $1.8 billion of net tax-supported debt will be issued, mostly for transportation projects.
December 22 -
“Our state’s strong economic recovery has accelerated back to pre-pandemic levels for unemployment and GDP,” said Gov. Bill Lee.
December 17 -
Lokken is a public finance attorney with 20 years of experience representing issuers, borrowers, underwriters and purchasers.
December 16 -
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposed fiscal 2022-2023 budget is down 1.8% from the previous adopted budget amid generous federal coronavirus relief funding.
December 15 -
Owner Fortress Investment Group can sell short-term debt with proceeds escrowed until the Florida conduit issuer OKs its remarketing as long-term debt.
December 8 -
Gavin Murrey, EVP and head of public finance and debt investment banking, will continue to run the public finance division and report to Carter.
December 7
