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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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has added a new feature to its EMMA website that allows users to locate disclosure information that might otherwise be difficult to find in cases where new CUSIP numbers are assigned to portions of bonds after issuance.
June 16 -
Municipal securities dealers are worried that their participation in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation initiative could cause them problems with multiple regulators, and have asked the SEC for reassurance that their businesses will not be impeded because they chose to report under the MCDC.
June 12 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is proposing to ease the standard of independence for one of its public board member positions.
June 11 - Wyoming
The Wyoming Infrastructure Authority has named Jason Begger as its new executive director, replacing Loyd Drain who will step down at the end of next month.
June 11 - California
A pair of California state senators on Wednesday introduced a proposed amendment to the Golden States constitution that would increase property tax revenues by increasing the assessed value of most businesses.
June 10 -
The United States Supreme Court is poised to decide whether or not to hear the case of former Miami budget director Michael Boudreaux, whose attorneys told the nation's top court it should accept the case to decide an important question of how exposed municipal officials should be to federal government lawsuits.
June 9 -
OregonThe Oregon Senate is considering legislation that would allow the Oregon Facilities Authority to issue bonds for projects reaching beyond the Beaver State's borders.
June 8 -
A federal appeals court denied the appeals of a trio of convicted bid-riggers Thursday in a ruling that could have lasting effects for future fraudsters.
June 5 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Municipal Securities hired two new attorney fellows recently, the chief of that office confirmed this week.
June 4 -
Municipal issuers spent $2,000 to $18,000 to do continuing disclosure reviews under the Securities and Exchange Commission's Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation Initiative and the vast majority of them felt they were forced to do them, the Government Finance Officers Association said during a spirited panel discussion here Tuesday.
June 2 -
A number of market participants want a sophisticated issuer exemption to the Securities and Exchange Commissions municipal advisor registration rule, but a leading official in the SECs Office of Municipal Securities said Monday that the rule is too new for that.
June 1 -
Dealer groups and banks remain highly concerned that the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's proposed core municipal advisor rule could limit the services they offer, while non-dealer advisors told the Securities and Exchange Commission that the proposal needs more clarification in several ways.
June 1 -
The Government Finance Officers Association is trying to galvanize public officials to pressure federal banking regulators into more permissive rules classifying municipal securities as high-quality liquid assets under the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) rule adopted last year.
June 1 -
Municipal issuers need to be prepared to fight against Securities and Exchange Commission efforts to directly regulate them, members of the Government Finance Officers Associations' Committee on Governmental Debt Management said Saturday.
June 1 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission should not approve the outline for the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's Municipal Advisory Representative Qualification Examination because it takes an inappropriate "one-size-fits-all" approach, the Investment Company Institute told the commission in a comment letter.
May 28 -
CaliforniaA coalition in California is pushing to amend property tax limits created by 1978s Proposition 13, which remains central to understanding both state and local California credit.
May 28 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Boards proposal to collect additional post-trade data for EMMA, the MSRB announced late Tuesday.
May 27 - Washington
The recent drought emergency declaration in Washington State provides a short-term credit positive development for the agricultural communities in the central and eastern portions of the state, Moody's Investors Service said.
May 26 - California
The Orange County Water District's approval of a non-binding term sheet to purchase water from Poseidon Water's proposed Huntington Beach, Calif. desalination plant is a credit positive , Moody's Investors Service said.
May 26 -
Municipal issuers and dealers hope that the Federal Reserve's proposal to include uninsured investment-grade general obligation bonds as high-quality liquid assets under the Fed's liquidity coverage ratio requirement rule spurs other banking regulators to do the same.
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