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Changes the Federal Reserve Board made in 2016 to its Liquidity Coverage Ratio rules would treat munis more restrictively than other, similar Level 2B high quality liquid assets.

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Luke Bronin, in an interview at the Brookings Municipal Finance Conference, said Connecticut's capital city is "in a stronger position than we’ve been in a long time."

An SEC advisory committee heard critics say the muni market is lacking in pre-trade price transparency and that hurts retail investors. But industry officials said MSRB rules have vastly improved muni market transparency.

Two researchers found the Securities and Exchange Commission and Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board had different data on municipal advisor registrants with a number of MAs failing to update SEC filings.

States and localities can’t continue to postpone resolving their pension problems or they will crowd out essential services and infrastructure and lose population, Chapman Strategic Advisors managing director James Spiotto says in a paper to be delivered in Washington on Tuesday.

Kalotay faults the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for not requiring training in options-based analytics as part of their certification of municipal advisor representatives.

A newly released research paper found that the probability that a state general obligation bond will be rated higher after the Dodd-Frank Act is 2.7 times greater than before the law was enacted.

The new service will save dealer firms time and effort as they enter into muni underwriting syndicates.

State and local governments were advised Thursday to avoid imposing burdens on out-of-state e-commerce retailers that could spark a new round of litigation as they begin implementing the Supreme Court’s June 21 South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. ruling on sales taxes.

During a webinar Thursday moderated by the National League of Cities, officials pointed out that the South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. sales tax case has been remanded by the U.S. Supreme Court back to the South Dakota Supreme Court.

Twenty-three years after hitting rock bottom, D.C. has a triple-A rating.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage angered many muni market participants last month with a last-second cancellation of already-priced bonds, but is that the end of the story?

Three Republican senators have introduced legislation that would slash federal spending for transportation and federal fuels taxes and put more responsibility on states for transportation infrastructure and all mass transit projects.

While munis have received scant attention at previous meetings, a discussion of pre-trade transparency is on tap for next week's Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee meeting.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has already barred Jose Ramirez from the securities industry, his lawyer said.

The firm is expanding its bond counsel practice in Virginia and the Southeast.

Congress might provide clarity by preventing states any state from imposing retroactive liability.

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

The MSRB is looking for public members, and specifically investors, to apply through Friday for spots on its board of directors.