Puerto Rico

One lawyer called the bankruptcy judge’s ruling a "victory in the Oversight Board's effort to destroy all bondholder liens in Puerto Rico."

The bill passed by the Senate to protect Puerto Rican investors is like one pending in the House.

Puerto Rico government representatives told the Title III bankruptcy judge that sales and use tax revenues used for paying Puerto Rico Sales Tax Corp. (COFINA) bonds belong to the commonwealth.

Former Treasury official Kent Hiteshew will keep his hand in infrastructure, Puerto Rico issues.

Lower-rated issuers like Puerto Rico have been slower to rebound from past natural disasters, municipal analysts said.

A U.S. district court on Tuesday rejected that bond insurer Ambac Financial was liable for allegedly overly optimistic and misleading statements it had made about its insured Puerto Rico bonds.

Puerto Rico Title III bankruptcy judge Laura Taylor Swain has decided to address the dispute between Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp. bondholders prior to other Title III matters.

Activists protested what they called Aurelius Capital Management’s support for austerity in Puerto Rico.

The Puerto Rico Oversight Board’s clash with Gov. Ricardo Rosselló escalated as the panel said one of his government's new healthcare laws may be too expensive.

The Puerto Rico Oversight Board filed an adversary complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief to force cost-saving measures.