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The municipal market is bifurcated, opaque, and can be a challenge to price even on a steady day. In this idiosyncratic market, especially in times of volatility, data-driven decision-making is key, whether pricing a new deal in the primary market or trading it in the secondary. Learn more.
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Fitch is bulking up its public finance group with the addition of six municipal bond analysts for its offices in San Francisco, New York and Austin.
August 17 -
The ISS ESG Muni QualityScore was previously designed for the buy- and sell-side, but it has expanded its offerings to issuers with datasets focused on their specific locations.
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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has launched its“innovation sandbox” which intends to enhance the use of data already available through EMMA.
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The index, which tracks over 2,800 securities, went live Wednesday. While ESG investment considerations have grown around the globe, the muni market is at the beginning stages and there is no universally accepted definition of ESG.
December 16 -
The change to the final indexes is expected to expand each fund's investing universe, the firms said.
December 9 -
Gov. Kathy Hochul's thrusts include the MTA Open Data Act; state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli launched a federal COVID-19 funding tracker.
October 29 -
The firm has brought on Kalotay Analytics' quantitative libraries to calculate certain metrics, including average life dates and cash-flow yields for taxable term bonds.
August 5 -
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly gaining ground in a number of areas of banking and financial services. It’s deployed to identify fraud, make trading decisions, recommend banking and financial products, and evaluate loan applications. This helps to reduce the costs of financial products and improve their efficiency and efficacy. However, there is growing evidence that AI systems are biased. Join American Banker’s Executive Technology Editor, Penny Crosman as she explores key AI-bias issues for the banking and financial services industry with Sonja Kelly, Director of Research and Advocacy at Women’s World Banking and Wisam Dakka, Co-Founder of Meemo.
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Rick Kolman and Rachel Washburn of Academy Securities talk with Chip Barnett about the firm's robust geopolitical intelligence capabilities. They discuss today's hot topics such as China-U.S. relations and Hong Kong, North Korea, Iran, Turkey and Venezuela. And they look at the importance that cybersecurity has for municipal bond issuers.
September 10