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Officials from the Governmental Accounting Standards Board said that adhering to the Financial Data Transparency Act may make things more complicated.

Without admitting or denying the findings, Luther Speight and his firm Luther Speight and Company agreed to pay civil penalties of $20,000 and $10,000, respectively.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's FY 2024 budget represents a 4.8% increase over the prior fiscal year.

The draft amendments seek to retire 40 pieces of interpretive guidance related to interdealer confirmations.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board heads into its new fiscal year focused on market regulation, improving data for the muni market, and updating its EMMA technology platform.

The firm, without admitting or denying the findings, agreed to pay a $60,000 civil penalty.

The bill is expected to pass this week in a move that would open the flood gates for banks and financial institutions to involve themselves legally in the banking of cannabis profits.

The website now shows Bloomberg's yield curve with hourly updates between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. The move changes EMMA's usual practice of displaying yield curve data from the day before.

The GOP stopgap funding measure may only kick the can down the road for a month, but how this bill passes will have implications for how Congress feels about additional spending measures.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied Treasury's motion for en banc review following its January panel decision that rendered the American Rescue Plan Act's Offset Provision "unconstitutionally unascertainable."

The amendments exempt those who've already qualified as a municipal advisor representative from retaking the Series 50 exam.

Taylor Klavan worked on financings for both LaGuardia and the Terminal 6 project at JFK Airport.

Sarah Jansen was introduced to the world of public finance while taking a public financial management class in graduate school at the University of Texas.

"The teams are pretty small, so I got exposure to things very early and that's helped me along the way," Stephanie Lom said.

Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Gary Gensler, speaking in front of the Senate Banking Committee, defended his tenure and the 22 rulemaking proposals he's adopted in the last few years.

After years of surplus from COVID-19 related stimulus, state tax revenues declined by 6.7% in nominal terms and 9.4% in real terms in June when compared with a year prior.

While congressional leaders fight over what to include with the $12 billion slated for FEMA, others feel that the reliance on FEMA and the federal government for disaster relief may begin to change.

The Department of Treasury had until Aug. 31 to file an appeal and failed to do so.

Moves to reschedule marijuana down to a Schedule III drug would lower taxes local cannabis businesses pay.

Mainly attributable to high inflation and increasing interest rates, costs have been increasing for retail sized trades but remained steady for institutional sized trades.