Kyle Glazier is the Washington Bureau Chief of The Bond Buyer. He has previously covered securities law, the Far West, and markets. He has previously written for the Houston Chronicle, Albany Times-Union, and The Denver Post. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado.
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A lawsuit challenging the Securities and Exchange Commission's pay-to-play rules could have implications for the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's effort to write such rules for muni advisers, as well an existing rule for dealers.
August 8 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission could have trouble punishing issuers and underwriters in court if they choose to fight rather than settle under the Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation initiative, lawyers and an economist said during a Thursday webinar.
August 7 -
Issuers believe guidance recently released by bond lawyers will help them determine whether they made materially misleading statements in offering documents that they could consider self-reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
August 6 -
Kym Arnone, managing director at Barclays Capital, will become the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's new chair beginning Oct. 1.
August 6 -
The National Association of Bond Lawyers has released a paper designed to provide issuers considering whether to participate in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation Initiative with an analytical framework to decide whether they made material misstatements about their continuing disclosure compliance.
August 5 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board will request public comment this fall on a proposal that would require a dealer to disclose to its customers what it paid for the same security on that same day.
August 5 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's proposal to simplify its rules on professional designations by limiting the activities of some dealer representatives and eliminating one of its professional designations.
August 5 -
A bill quietly introduced months ago may have helped get the SEC moving toward developing rules that require dealers to disclose their markups in riskless principal transactions.
August 4 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission's changes to its disclosure violation self-reporting program are somewhat helpful to issuers but may create further problems in their relationships with underwriters, market participants said.
August 1 -
Securities and Exchange commission member Michael Piwowar wants to explore the possibility of simplifying and standardizing municipal bond deals, because he believes that overly-complex transactions are contributing to muni market opacity and higher issuance costs.
August 1 -
Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rico's sole non-voting member of Congress, has introduced legislation that would allow the commonwealth's government to authorize certain government-owned corporations to enter Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy.
July 31 -
UBS is facing more than $600 million in damage claims filed by Puerto Rico investors in closed-end bond funds, the bank said in its second quarter earnings report Tuesday.
July 29 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Municipal Securities is hiring two new attorney advisers in the latest expansion of the team tasked with providing muni market expertise to federal regulators.
July 28 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission's new money market fund rules will make MMF investors more conservative while retaining the funds' usefulness for most market participants, including tax-exempt investors and municipalities, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
July 25 -
Kroll Bond Rating Agency has reached agreement with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board to have the agency's ratings available on EMMA.
July 25 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board sought approval Thursday for the first municipal advisor rule the muni industry's self regulator has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve since SEC adopted its final MA rule in September.
July 24 -
Municipal bond issuers, dealers, and lawyers are making another push to alter the Securities and Exchange Commission's Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation initiative, asking the SEC to narrow the program's scope and delay its deadline by several months.
July 24 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board on Wednesday proposed a revised draft rule to establish the core duties of municipal advisors, tweaking some of the provisions that generated the most controversy in January's first draft.
July 23 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 on Wednesday to require institutional money market mutual funds to adopt a floating net asset value.
July 23 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board on Tuesday filed a revised proposal with the Securities and Exchange Commission to require dealers to provide annual municipal securities training for registered persons who regularly conduct or supervise muni business.
July 22
