Georgia

The SEC issued separate administrative orders Monday stripping Malachi Financial Products of its muni advisory registration and barring Porter Bingham from the industry.

Rita Sallis has briefly rejoined the MSRB board following the resignation of Jim Beard and Ronald Dieckman's term has been extended.

Tax accountants, financial advisors, private schools, and other organizations are advertising tax credits for donating to private K-12 voucher funds as ways to "sidestep," "bypass," "circumvent," or "mitigate" the impact of the federal SALT deduction cap, according to a survey.

Malachi Financial Products Inc. and its principal were charged with violating their fiduciary duty to a city in Mississippi, overcharging the city, and failing to disclose payments received from the underwriter.

The opinion said Florida met its initial burden in proving that a cap on Georgia’s water withdrawals could be considered further.

Ryan Pratt has joined Moody's as vice president of Southeast business development.

Georgia used an internet presentation and an investor platform to highlight its credit strengths before its annual general obligation bond sale.

The Atlanta City Council on Monday is expected to pass a $2.1 billion budget for fiscal 2019.

S&P said a state law de-annexing a major portion of one city to create another may affect all of its Georgia municipal rating assessments.

The Securities and Exchange Committee said its Investor Advisory Committee might made a recommendation related to enhanced municipal and corporate bond disclosure.

Public transit agencies have a $90 billion backlog of maintenance, repair and modernization projects.

Stockbridge's attorneys filed a state constitutional challenge in local court, and plan to file a civil rights complaint in federal court soon.

Bills that stripped territory from Stockbridge without apportioning its debt are credit negative for Georgia local governments and could impose higher borrowing costs.

Gov. Nathan Deal signed the bills over the objection of Stockbridge bondholders.

Credit analysts, bond attorneys and issuers are among those reacting to the increasing risk computer crime poses to governments.

Bills on Gov. Nathan Deal's desk would allow creation of a new city of Eagle's Landing at the expense of the existing city of Stockbridge.

The proposed city of Eagles Landing would take the heart out of the city of Stockbridge, Georgia, with no apparent accommodation for its outstanding debt.

Alternative funding strategies, collaborations and resiliency awareness were the buzzwords at an S&P housing conference in New York.

The Georgia Legislature’s plan to cut the city of Stockbridge in half, without its consent, brought warnings of litigation from bondholders and potential damage to the state's triple-A rating.

The bonds were used to finance the acquisition and renovation of an assisted living facility in Alabama by Dwayne Edwards, who the SEC charged with fraud last year.