Kyle Glazier

There was friction about the integrity of the muni market during a panel discussion Thursday, but the committee agreed to move along with some disclosure recommendations.

Navnoor Kang, a former director at the New York State Common Retirement Fund, wants home confinement rather than prison.

The Government Finance Officers Association said Tuesday it generally supports most of the recommendations an SEC panel plans to discuss in Atlanta later this week.

The SEC's Investor Advisory Committee's vice chairman is Elisse Walter, the former chairman and commissioner of the SEC who was most responsible for the commission's 2012 Report on the Municipal Securities Markets that suggested some of these muni reforms.

The latest Federal Reserve data shows the first decline in bank holdings of municipal securities in nearly a decade, a result of tax reform, according to experts.

A proposal by bank and securities regulators to roll back some provisions of the Volcker Rule indicates they may be considering rethinking their previous stance on tender option bonds.

The muni industry's self regulator said issuers have found underwriters' disclosure letters to be too long, filled with boilerplate, and duplicative.

Wells Fargo Securities and banker Peter Cannava are alleging the SEC was dishonest in crafting investors' statements and failed to turn them over to defense attorneys in the 38 Studios case.

The past 10 years have seen major changes to the market, but analysts aren't sure they've been effective in preparing it for the next test.

NFMA has given awards every year since 1984 to recognize those who have contributed to its goals for the advancement of the municipal bond industry.

The MSRB's controversial commentary about selective disclosure got some support from a top SEC official on Wednesday.

The muni market officially got much of what it has spent years fighting for on Thursday, when President Trump signed the banking bill that makes tradable, investment grade municipal securities high-quality liquid assets under federal banking rules.

Muni market groups got a long-awaited win when the House passed banking legislation classifying certain munis as high-quality liquid assets, even if it wasn't as big a win as hoped.

Early returns indicate there have been some problems but firms seem to be working through them in complying with the new markup rules, regulators and industry officials said Tuesday.

Rising short-term rates and a lower corporate tax rate have already pushed some municipal issuers out of bank loans and back into the traditional muni space, analysts said.

The National Federation of Municipal Analysts is concerned that a district court ruling on Puerto Rico highway bonds could be a landmark change for the worse when it comes to how investors view revenue bonds.

Bruising political fights over Obamacare and tax reform may have killed the chances for Trump's infrastructure plan, leaving state and local governments to lead the way.

The proposal would establish a standalone rule governing transactions in discretionary accounts, something the board hasn't had in more than 30 years.

The U.S. infrastructure system looks remarkably backwards to many international eyes, and threatens the economy in the long run, experts said on Wednesday.

Transportation lobbyists and researchers discussing surface transportation finance during an Infrastructure Week webcast were unanimous in saying that Congress should lift the general prohibition on tolling interstate highways.