Green bonds and traditional municipals price head-to-head in a recent deal. Barry Fick, Executive Director of the Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority, gives the rundown of how the deal fared. The Bond Buyer’s Caitlin Devitt hosts. (18 minutes)
Muni asset managers are seeking more data from issuers on ESG, yet no agreed-upon set of standards exists, complicating the industry’s relationship with the growing sector.
Our Bond Buyer series, Build What Better?, concludes as author and host Peter Keating talks with visionary leaders in infrastructure design, policy and funding.
Green bonds are flooding to market — and financing infrastructure — around the world. When will U.S. municipal bond investors get the info they need to join the rush, and what will they pay for the privilege?
We discuss the growth in the market for bonds designed to make an environmental or social impact – and the surprisingly sparse requirements for its participants. Peter Keating with guests Emily Brock (Government Finance Officers Association) and Jennifer Brooks (Ballard Spahr).
Three kinds of new projects that could benefit from the new infrastructure law – and how state and local officials can leverage its $550-billion bounty to maximum effect. Peter Keating with guests Joung Lee (AASHTO), Erik Olson (NRDC), and Peter Rogoff (Sound Transit).
In a market where volume cap is becoming less available, 501(c)(3) entities provide an alternative means of accessing capital to provide affordable housing.
Peter Keating and guests discuss the state of American infrastructure and how much the Biden administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will move the needle when it comes to launching new projects. (26 minutes)
The new infrastructure bill will have a huge impact on America's transportation and information networks over the next five years. Turbo-charging the municipal finance market to keep the transformation going? That's a longer haul.
Industry analysts say we will see more Fintechs and incumbents collaborating in the post-pandemic era. We have already seen this phenomenon play out and it will continue as online advisory, banking, lending, and digital payments are most likely permanent. In this episode, we explore: (1) what’s ahead for Fintech and incumbents in investments, acquisitions, and partnerships; (2) how incumbents are closing the gap in Fintech collaboration; and (3) what a successful partnership looks like.
The coronavirus pandemic, urban unrest, budget strife and climate volatility have widened the scope of crisis management. In the fourth and final podcast segment of our Future of Cities series, University of Illinois at Chicago public affairs dean Michael Pagano examines factors at play, including a deep national divide. Paul Burton hosts. (15 minutes)
The coronavirus pandemic was something no local government could have anticipated. But it’s also raising serious concerns about cities’ preparedness for other difficult-to-predict challenges.
Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and Regional Plan Association president Tom Wright join The Bond Buyer for a discussion on the ways life and work in American cities are being altered by the pandemic — and future challenges it illuminates.
Financial hits from the COVID-19 fallout have prompted companies with expensive leases to reassess their needs. In the third part of our podcast series on the Future of Cities, Howard Cure of Evercore Wealth Management and John Boyd Jr. of Boyd Co. cite the effects on commercial real estate, transit, public housing and other urban dynamics. Paul Burton hosts. (17 minutes)
Even before COVID-19, urban economists and planners were pointing to a trend of suburbanization of job growth. That could now accelerate, with employers at an inflection point to assess their future needs.
