Utah

A new law in empowers Utah to keep an eye on debt issuance by newer development authorities and a transit agency, as well as approve P3s involving state funds.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s request for information on ESG is an attempt to bring politics into capital markets, Marlo Oaks said.

The firm's special district group is up to 30 public finance professionals with the addition of seven members since January.

The broker-dealer has added several people to a team that specializes in land-based municipal bond transactions.

Emerging from the worst crisis since the 9/11 attacks, U.S. airports are continuing their record pace of construction.

Developers are using unrated bonds to finance a golf course-centered resort in fast-growing southern Utah.

In both states, jobs have recovered past where they were prior to last March when the pandemic hit the U.S.

The future is looking up for Salt Lake City International Airport as it continues redevelopment with $900 million of revenue bonds.

A Utah Infrastructure Agency bond deal will bring the city of Pleasant Grove onto the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency's Utopia fiber network.

States are well-positioned to emerge from COVID-19, the investment firm said in its annual grading.

Anticipating a flood of funding from President Biden's infrastructure plan, states are positioning for an expansion of broadband to rural and underserved areas.

The bonds are coming in three tranches, mixing tax-exempt new money and a taxable refunding.

Yields on all triple-A benchmark curves out to nine years are now below 1%. The largest bumps were again on the very short end of the curve. Lipper reported $580 million of inflows.

The COVID-19 pandemic got in the way of Salt Lake City International Airport's plans to issue bonds for the second phase of its $4.3 billion expansion.

Like their traditional peers, charter schools in the Southwest see the writing on the wall when it comes to future funding in a coronavirus-driven recession.

After lawmakers reversed course on a plan to lower income taxes while taxing grocery-store food, triple-A Utah will sell $450 million of GO bonds.

Deborah Goldberg succeeds Utah State Treasurer David Damschen as president of the National Association of State Treasurers.

All but a $60 million tax-exempt new money piece of UTA's $511.5 million revenue bond deal is taxable.

Refundings rebounded in the first half of 2019, but total bond volume across the Southwest fell to a six-year low.

The water district in Washington County, Utah, is driving a plan estimated at up to $1.8 billion to bring water 140 miles from Lake Powell.