The nature of municipal bonds is to help people, says Peter Hayes, "I really like that it's public purpose."

Photos from The Bond Buyer's 2023 Infrastructure conference.

While the market broadly is still in the early stages of using artificial intelligence, more firms are starting to implement it, panelists said at MuniTech NYC, an event hosted by Munichain and Spline Data that brought together a gathering of technology-focused market participants.

Economic and demographic trends working against revenues at U.S. higher education institutions are very evident in West Virginia at the start of the school year.

The Bond Buyer's Keeley Webster talks ratings, fare integration and potential solutions to the Bay Area Regional Transit's current challenges with Bryant Jenkins, a managing principal with Sperry Capital. (34 minutes)

With class certification now in hand, the cities that brought the lawsuit have two weeks to outline how other municipalities will be provided notice of the chance to join.

The 10 regional and categorical winners, all of whom will be finalists for the national Deal of the Year award, will be announced the week of November 13.

Concerns about large unrealized losses on bond investments have receded since the spring banking crisis, but the paper losses have started growing again in recent months. The worries today are less about banks' survival — and more about how much their margins will get squeezed.

A Wisconsin county has sold more than $200 million of bonds for broadband provider Bug Tussel to provide high-speed internet to rural customers in the state.

AI will be part of a new tax-enforcement effort that will target high-income earners, partnerships, and large corporations.