Corporate CUSIPs can reach a different, broader set of investors than even taxable munis and offer more issuing flexibility for well-known universities.

The municipal dealer community supports market transparency. The proposal before Congress, however, is poorly conceived, has few if any market supporters, and has the potential to be very expensive.

We believe our industry should coalesce around objective measures of ESG "risk" and leave the"impact" considerations to the investors and their proxies. Buy-side participants should welcome this as they structure impact strategies to match their clients' needs.

Partisan politics is playing a larger role in public finance, flaring up into bickering more often than in the past.

Former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins and others are concerned about politics entering public pension funds.

The rise of ESG investing exemplifies supply meeting demand in the free market, but some conservative leaders seem to have forgotten their Econ 101.

FINRA and MSRB actions are drawing broker-dealer firms to lobbying groups.

During her almost 14 years as Virginia state treasurer, Manju Ganeriwala oversaw the issuance of more than $33 billion of municipal bonds.

Higher borrowing costs result in annual interest payments for average tribal issuers ranging from $79,000 to $310,000 greater than nontribal counterparts, according to a new paper.

Inflationary-driven challenges pose a drag on hospitals’ fiscal recovery from the pandemic with short-, mid-, and long-term action needed.

Issuers come to market more often and with larger deals when muni bond funds are enjoying inflows, a new paper contends. But not all market participants agree.

The condition of infrastructure projects should be included in bond pricing metrics as many infrastructure assets around the country have turned into liabilities.

The “social” part of ESG evaluations poses the most downside risk to governmental and not-for-profit issuers in the Midwest and Central regions, S&P said.

The Federal Reserve System is facing increasing demands from the Senate to revamp the process for granting master accounts, disclose more information to the public and pick more diverse leaders. That pressure makes executive searches at the Kansas City and Chicago Fed banks more complicated.

Changing federal policies toward hurricane aid may change these events' credit impacts.

Siebert's Suzanne Shank and Bill Thompson have joined with NBA veteran player Chris Webber in a new program launched by New York State to fund the growth of the cannabis industry that eliminates barriers for equitable participation.

Corrigan thrived on crisis situations, a colleague said. He received plenty of practice in 25 years at the Fed and another two decades at Goldman Sachs.

Governance is the single most important ESG factor in public finance ratings, given the impact of governance structure, Fitch said.

The chances of an economic slowdown are rising as the Federal Reserve is poised to take further steps to tame inflation, say the heads of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley.

In a recent survey, just over half of community bankers expressed concern that the central bank will harm the U.S. economy by raising rates too fast in its quest to contain inflation.