South Carolina

Mary Francoeur of PFM Financial Advisors passed out the awards during the annual NFMA conference in Charleston, South Carolina.

The Berkeley County School District said Hilltop Securities agreed to pay back fees the district paid to a predecessor firm from 2012 to 2014.

Mini-bond investors were damaged by the South Carolina-owned utility’s disclosure omissions, according to the suit.

Westinghouse, the former contractor for the utility’s failed nuclear reactor project, filed a lawsuit to recover property it says the state-owned utility is withholding.

The Berkeley County School District said its financial advisors and bond counsel were involved a fraud scheme that sent its CFO to prison.

Lawmakers, without making a decision to sell, voted to get formal offers for the state-owned utility from four companies.

The surge in gas deals couldn’t overcome the region’s sharp decline in refundings, which led to an overall 22.6% volume decline.

A consultant was directed to prepare a new proposal outlining the next steps to take that could lead to a sale of the state-owned public utility.

Consultant ICF said four non-binding purchase proposals would defease or assume the state-owned utility’s $8 billion in debt.

York County, fresh off the Moody's upgrade, competitively prices the first of two general obligation bond issues Thursday.

A spokesman for Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said she is reviewing an anti-blasting petition filed by South Carolina.

Federal permits to search for oil put the state’s economy, tourism and natural resources at risk, says South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.

State-owned Santee Cooper has charged its former partner in the project, SCE&G, with mismanagement and breach of contract.

Columbia issued the first U.S. stormwater revenue bonds certified by the Climate Bond Initiative.

A think tank is urging residents to support selling the state-owned utility saying that would relieve ratepayers of paying billions in debt.

Fitch Ratings dropped the South Carolina utility’s rating two notches to A-minus and revised the outlook to negative, citing a legal claim by its largest customer.

Almost $7.5 billion of municipal bonds head into the marketplace in this holiday-shortened week.

Alabama-based Burr & Forman will gain McNair's significant public finance presence in South Carolina.

Dominion Energy said its management offer can be structured to preserve Santee Cooper’s tax-exempt status.

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