Sarah Wynn

Analysts, issuers and lawmakers have mixed responses to the closure of the Municipal Liquidity Facility with some saying the move puts the municipal market in a precarious spot as COVID-19 continues to ravage the country.

Dealerweb is a wholesale unit of Tradeweb Markets, a large fixed-income electronic trading platform company. FINRA found that Dealerweb failed to correctly report 147,000 trades.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told Fed Chair Jerome Powell to end most emergency lending programs created earlier this year, including the MLF, on Dec. 31.

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell said President-elect Biden will move on a pandemic relief bill early in his presidency and a robust infrastructure package would soon follow. Others see scaled-down aid and an upward partisan battle.

The bill would increase the federal share cost of disaster relief for the COVID-19 pandemic to 100% from 75%. It is unlikely to pass in the Senate.

Candidates for the next U.S. Secretary of Transportation bring something new to the table than in previous years — deep understanding of the municipal bond market.

AASHTO elected only the second woman to serve as its president, and its first Black vice-president in its 106-year old history.

During his leadership, Clayton oversaw amendments to Rule 15c-12 and pushed for more transparency in the municipal market.

Infrastructure investment is likely going to be an early priority for Biden.

The MSRB is looking specifically for issuers and non-dealer municipal advisors.

The Fed’s vice chair of supervision said the Fed's backstop lending to states and localities "may not be the answer to all their issues."

There is a pervasive belief that Joe Biden is likely to be more effective reaching across the aisle than Donald Trump.

The former vice president spearheaded the Obama administration’s implementation of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Their wins brighten the future of municipal bond-friendly initiatives in Congress.

A federal judge largely rejected the arguments offered by Wall Street banks seeking to dismiss the lawsuit, which alleges a conspiracy to fix rates in the VRDO market.

Public finance made up just 3% of total standalone enforcement cases.

The American Securities Association wants to see a municipal debt purchase program extended past the end of the year, but Treasury has indicated that is unlikely.

The SEC's Rebecca Olsen said in 2021, the regulator plans to explore ways to get more comment on financial disclosure recommendations.

As more people work from home, people could be more focused on building out broadband infrastructure.

The MSRB also said it was looking for volunteers for two advisory groups.