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Jeanine Rodgers Caruso, president of Fiscal Advisors & Marketing Inc., is the new board president of the National Association of Independent Public Finance Advisors

The Securities and Exchange Commission hopes to finalize its definition of municipal advisor early next year, according to the head of the SEC's municipal securities office.

Williams Capital, a leading minority-owned investment bank, hired Sean Boyea as a principal in its new Sacramento office.

A Southern California company with $157 million of municipal bonds and once hailed as a model of cutting-edge technology is in liquidation. Enertech Environmental Inc. is in the process of being liquidated, said Geoffrey Berman, a vice president at Development Specialists Inc., a restructuring firm.

The District of Columbia will sell $900 million of income tax-secured bonds in November, the biggest amongst a rash of deals closing the calendar year.

The Los Angeles City Council voted to approve negotiations with Ontario, Calif. officials that could result in L.A./Ontario airport being returned to local control.

Slide show of Puerto Rico Public Private Partnerships P3s

Middle-market, fixed-income dealer firms are adding staffers to their compliance divisions, part of an expensive effort to comply with a host of new financial regulations coming from Washington, D.C., some executives said at a meeting here.

The credit worthiness of charter schools were called called into question a few weeks ago when Fitch Ratings put all of the charter school bonds it rates on negative watch.

Moody’s affirmed its underlying Aaa rating for Bellevue School District, Wash.'s $557 million of general obligation debt.