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After Congress almost did away with them in the recently enacted tax legislation, tax-exempt private activity bond volume caps for states will see an increase for 2018.

The unfunded liabilities of the funds nearly doubled over the last decade.

UBS Wealth Management Americas raised its firepower in areas that escaped the chopping block under the new tax law, hiring a trio of executives with experience in stadium and public power finance.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch and TD Securities won the bidding for Massachusetts’ $600 million of general obligation bonds while Citigroup won the gilt-edge Fairfax County, Va., bonds.

Revel, the failed $2.4 billion casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built as a high-end playground for Wall Street bankers, sold for $200 million to a Colorado developer who plans to reopen it under the name Ocean Resort Casino.

The law firm is building out its Pennsylvania public finance practice.

The municipal bond market springs to life on Tuesday as several large competitive sales hit the screens, led by issuers in Massachusetts, Virginia and Minnesota.

The Puerto Rico Oversight Board named four key energy projects as potentially eligible for a special permitting process.

A tale of two bond-financed fertilizer projects in the Midwest -- how one is thriving with the IRS' blessing on the bonds and the other is at a virtual standstill and in a dispute with the tax regulator.

The municipal bond market was quiet Monday as traders waited for this week’s new issue sales to get underway with competitive deals on Tuesday from Massachusetts and Fairfax County, Va.

The SEC's first muni enforcement case of the year shows its willingness to use the Dodd Frank Act to punish some breaches of fiduciary duty that hadn't yet been spelled out by the MSRB.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is looking for five people knowledgeable about the muni market to sit on its board starting Oct. 1.

The municipal bond market on Monday is patiently waiting for this week’s new issue sales to get underway with competitive sales on Tuesday from Massachusetts and Fairfax County, Va.

The commonwealth plans two more sales in early 2018 after Tuesday's $600 million deal.

Colorado lawmakers enter their 2018 session with election-year politics on their mind and more money in their pockets.

Municipal bond traders are back at work in earnest as they get set to take on a new issue slate dominated by competitive sales on Tuesday and taxable deals on Wednesday and Thursday.

The decision impacts $1.26 billion of economic development revenue and refunding bonds issued by the company, which said it is considering its response to the IRS.

Gov. Ricardo Rosselló signed the measure Thursday.

Newly issued Treasury securities held in stripped form increased about $1.518 billion in December to a total of $262.102 billion, the Bureau of the Public Debt reported Friday.

Jerome Powell was a reluctant supporter of a third round of emergency bond purchases in 2012 as the U.S. struggled to recover from the global financial crisis.