Career moves

For the last seven years, he held a similar position for U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I.

Ike Papadopoulos brings more than 20 years of investment banking experience, most recently with Ziegler and TD Securities.

With Yellen in charge, Biden’s Treasury Department will be prepared to join Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s policy of lower-for-longer interest rates with extended, expansionary government spending.

Jennifer Johnston will replace Tom Walsh, who is retiring on Dec. 1.

Fed Governor Lael Brainard has slipped from among top contenders for Treasury secretary under Joe Biden, according to people familiar with the matter, as the president-elect’s team winnows its choices for key positions.

Jeanne Holm, appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti, will help guide the city government through its worst financial crisis in a decade.

After leaving Assured Guaranty in 2011, Randy Gerardes is now back with the firm.

Mark Nitcholas will will focus on local and state governments, state agencies and school districts within Texas and the Southwest.

State housing and economic development Secretary Mike Kennealy will lead the search for a successor at the commonwealth's finance and development agency.

The increasing focus on ESG and innovation in the municipal market continues to grow as investors and issuers navigate a changing global market for state and local government debt amid COVID-19.

Five new muni professionals join Hilltop Securities’ debt and fixed income capital market teams; all of them came from Wells Fargo.

Memphis, Tenn-based FHN, a division of First Horizon Bank, announced Wednesday the hiring of two municipal bond veterans to its New York City team focusing on infrastructure in Evan Levine and Crystal Mullins.

Stifel public finance banker James Cervantes didn’t anticipate his retirement party would involve masks and social distancing.

Belsky's municipal experience ranges from top roles at a rating agency and investment bank to the halls of academia and city leadership

Market participants say the year long process to find a new leader for the Municipal Securities Rulemaing Board resulted in a good pick.

Kim, currently the MSRB's chief operating officer, will assume the post Thursday.

The firm hired seven new senior-level bankers in its fixed income division.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s search for a Treasury secretary is widely seen as focusing on Lael Brainard of the Federal Reserve, a choice that would keep both Wall Street and progressives in line.

The New York-based minority-owned firm now has a Chicago office led by veteran bond attorney Chuck Katz.

Five specialists from the former BB&T Capital Markets, now part of Truist, are moving to Hilltop Securities.