Lynn Hume

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., suggested he and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., may introduce a bill that would require MSRB to elect public members who represent consumers and are not just retired industry executives.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board named Gary Hall as its next chair and Edward Sisk to become vice chair. It also temporarily cut fees to reduce excess reserves by $2.6 million.

MSRB is seeking comments on a revised set of potential draft amendments to its rules on primary offering practices and related disclosures that it says would benefit the market for relatively limited costs to participants.

George Callas most recently was senior tax counsel to House Speaker Paul Ryan and was a chief architect of the tax reform legislation enacted in December.

Changes the Federal Reserve Board made in 2016 to its Liquidity Coverage Ratio rules would treat munis more restrictively than other, similar Level 2B high quality liquid assets.

An SEC advisory committee heard critics say the muni market is lacking in pre-trade price transparency and that hurts retail investors. But industry officials said MSRB rules have vastly improved muni market transparency.

Three Republican senators have introduced legislation that would slash federal spending for transportation and federal fuels taxes and put more responsibility on states for transportation infrastructure and all mass transit projects.

Bradley Wendt, a former investment banker with extensive experience in municipal bonds, interest rate swaps, and other fixed income products, joins Treasury's Office of Domestic Finance.

Malachi Financial Products Inc. and its principal were charged with violating their fiduciary duty to a city in Mississippi, overcharging the city, and failing to disclose payments received from the underwriter.

Emrich is a longtime credit and bond analyst in the municipal securities market.

The proposed rules would clarify that an institutional investor could take part in a public-private partnership for a bond-financed project without making the bonds taxable.

Two town officials also received civil penalties totaling $35,000 and were ordered to resign and be temporarily barred from employment with Ramapo, N.Y.

Senate and House Appropriations Committees appropriate more funds for certain transportation and housing programs after the president sought cuts to or elimination of the programs.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman is reportedly crafting infrastructure legislation that could be introduced as soon as this summer.

Elad Roisman's main expertise is in equities, corporate debt, mergers, market structure and derivatives.

Puerto Rico was by far the largest recipient of emergency relief funding allocated by the Federal Transit Administration.

The Securities and Exchange Committee said its Investor Advisory Committee might made a recommendation related to enhanced municipal and corporate bond disclosure.

The 13-year-old Real-Time Transaction Reporting System has undergone a three-year re-engineering process.

The District of Columbia was praised for tackling the funding needs for maintaining its critical infrastructure by a rating agency concerned about deferral of such maintenance by states and local governments.

AASHTO Executive Director Frederick G. "Bud" Wright has spent more than 42 years working in the transportation sector.