Corporate governance

From pervasive discrimination at work to the dangers of #BankingWhileBlack, Black people in America face serious hurdles when engaging with the financial services. Join us for a panel discussion featuring guests from the upcoming Access Denied: Systemic Racism in Financial Services podcast.

Despite tangible evidence dispelling that it's hard to find Black talent, the financial services have yet to crack the code when it comes to building a representational workforce. But is it a sufficient solution on its own?

Low oil prices and the pandemic slowed the Lone Star State's revenue stream.

“We expect it will be years before demand returns to peak 2019 levels,” industry exec says.

Robert Kelchen, a higher education finance professor at Seton Hall University, discusses near-term challenges facing U.S. colleges as they grapple with revenue hits from the COVID-19 pandemic. Andrew Coen hosts.

According to the survey that Tom Kozlik prepared, more than 90% of 211 analysts and specialists found coronavirus the most compelling issue facing the public finance industry. Public pensions ranked second.

State officials say fiscal 2020 revenues are on target and lay out fiscal 2021 prospects.

The White House has shortened the enhanced Medicaid formula funding to two years from a proposed four years and continues to stall on publication of a Federal Register notice about the availability of the disaster aid.

The $10.2 billion is designated for long-term mitigation work to prevent a future recurrence of the damage and to make electrical grid improvements that will withstand future storms.

Montreal businessman Anthony McCord will arrive next month as New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's chief transformation officer to address the authority's myriad operational and capital funding challenges.

More than 600 firms have adopted proxy access, a program launched under the comptroller’s Boardroom Accountability Project.

The commonwealth overall has been allocated $42.3 billion in disaster aid since Hurricanes Maria and Irma struck the island, not counting the new funding approved by Congress.

The disaster-aid measure was delayed for about six months amid Trump’s objections to additional aid for Puerto Rico.

The House Natural Resources Committee has scheduled a May 2 hearing to examine the successes and failures of PROMESA.

Mayors said they've stepped in to help fill funding gaps for everything from housing loans to airport security for the Super Bowl.

Sergio Marxuach and other officials of the nonpartisan, San Juan-based Center for a New Economy said federal spending on disaster recovery has been slower than in other areas also struck by hurricanes in 2017.

Congress could pass legislation authorizing advance refundings and liberalizing private activity bond restrictions to aid in disaster recovery, NABL said.

The proposed Treasury rules would limit states' use of charitable deductions as workarounds for the $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes.

An estimated $69.1 billion of the $139 billion is already committed through a combination of insurance claims and federal disaster aid.