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PNC Capital Markets has agreed to pay almost $200,000 to settle with the SEC over a failure to meet disclosure requirements in connection with 36 limited offerings.

Brandon Comer said the SEC's case alleging breach of fiduciary duty against him lacks evidence, but a federal judge refused to end the case.

State spending growth topped 18.2% in FY 2022, the highest annual increase in state spending since the National Association of State Budget Officers began recording the data in 1979.

The regulation would establish a universal standard requiring dealers in any transaction with a customer to use reasonable diligence to get the customer the best price.

The change would give broker dealers, municipal securities dealers and municipal advisors until Jan. 31 to annually affirm the information on Form A-12, among other changes.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has announced its fifteen-member Compliance Advisory Group for the 2023 fiscal year, which includes eleven women and four men.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's 2020 amendments to rule 15c2-11 on the publication of quotes by broker dealers won't be enforced until 2025.

Tribal governments have invested in 344 infrastructure and affordable housing projects as a result of $20 billion received from the American Rescue Plan Act.

In the letter addressed to House congressional leaders, members urged leadership to expand the affordable housing credit and lower the PAB requirement.

Ruben James Rojas agreed to admit wrongdoing and pay a $50,000 fine after the Securities and Exchange Commission found that he misled bond investors in connection with a $100 million offering.

A Federal appellate court has issued two opinions in the cases of Ohio and Kentucky and Tennessee, and in the latter, agreed the offset provision is unconstitutional.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has filed to extend G-27 relief to give dealers an extra six-month window for remote inspections

The Securities and Exchange Commission's FY 2022 results show the Commission filed 760 enforcement actions and recovered $6.4 billion in penalties and disgorgement, a 9% increase from FY 2021.

The City of Rochester, New York, and its former finance director appear set in fighting SEC charges that they defrauded investors in connection with a 2019 bond offering.

A mentorship that started during a college internship helped steer Melissa Bennett to a partnership in public finance law.

"I saw public finance as a good intersection of markets and public policy and I've been doing it ever since," said Sam Denton-Schneider.

"Since I started in this industry, it's been a constant series of new issues, new questions of change, new transactions and creative ways to deal with the shifting legal and economic climate," Helen Pennock said.

The MSRB will seek comment on Rule G-3 on professional qualifications that would add an exemption for muni advisors having to requalify in instances where their qualification had lapsed.

Vern Buchanan looks poised to succeed Richard Neal as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee should Republicans take the House on Nov. 8 and could offer the muni agenda a fresh start.

In its analysis of primary market data from 2019 to 2021, the MSRB showed that market participants fled competitive offerings during the COVID period and preferred private placements.