Kyle Glazier

Twenty-three years after hitting rock bottom, D.C. has a triple-A rating.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage angered many muni market participants last month with a last-second cancellation of already-priced bonds, but is that the end of the story?

While munis have received scant attention at previous meetings, a discussion of pre-trade transparency is on tap for next week's Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee meeting.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has already barred Jose Ramirez from the securities industry, his lawyer said.

The SEC issued separate administrative orders Monday stripping Malachi Financial Products of its muni advisory registration and barring Porter Bingham from the industry.

The MSRB is looking for public members, and specifically investors, to apply through Friday for spots on its board of directors.

Rita Sallis has briefly rejoined the MSRB board following the resignation of Jim Beard and Ronald Dieckman's term has been extended.

CDFA said it is surveying local, state and multi-jurisdictional issuers about private activity bond fees in conduit transactions.

Six straight treasurers want SEC chairman Jay Clayton to stay the course on the commission's forced arbitration policy.

After a bumpy but overall successful launch of markup disclosure, the muni industry looks ahead to regulatory scrutiny and finding ways to use the new data.

Deutsche Bank Securities and Central States Capital Markets agreed to settle with FINRA for a combined $80,000.

The new guidance is just the first of a planned three-part release, which will later cover social media use and the rule's content standards.

Issuer groups urged a Senate Panel to undo a 2014 SEC rule change that required money market funds to use a floating net asset value.

Jose Ramírez has yet to acknowledge wrongdoing in misleading investors about Puerto Rico debt and may pose a continued threat to investors, SEC lawyers told a federal judge.

The SEC contends it played fairly in prosecuting its case against Wells Fargo Securities and Peter Cannava, denying the defense's allegations of dishonest "legal gamesmanship."

Municipal advisors were hoping for something more robust than the comments the MSRB incorporated into its latest "compliance resource."

The federal government's job board stops taking applications next week.

The number of muni market dealers has fallen off even as trading activity remained stable, an MSRB report finds.

Ex-Morgan Stanley branch manager Terry Lee McCoy failed to act on several "red flags" that the accounts of an elderly and incapacitated customer were being abused, FINRA said.

A bill now in committee would sell distressed federal assets to fund projects in distressed communities and pay down the deficit.