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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board on Monday detailed plans to reduce its board size and alter its composition.

Just when everyone thought there would be little drama at this week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, the coronavirus has infected the broader markets. Experts still say monetary policy will be immune for now.

Faced with falling enrollment at its state universities, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham wants to spend more money on college students.

Taxable healthcare deals from NYU, and Escambia County, Fla., to price in market seeing yields fall amid virus fears.

Report for January 27, 2020

The state will use $300 million of surplus funds to pay for capital projects at university campuses.

With demand at an all-time high and record inflows that is continuing to come into the market, one would think there would be more issuance.

A new hospital and network of community health centers are part of the $1.1 billion capital proposal from the four fiscally strained South Side hospitals.

Gavin Newsom's filing urges the judge overseeing the utility's Chapter 11 not to approve bankruptcy exit financing commitments.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has received criticism for the large size of its board and its selection of public board members.

The New York City Housing Development Corp. plans to issue $375 million of housing impact bonds, a new category of sustainable development bonds.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio plans to introduce an outline for proposed national infrastructure legislation as early as Tuesday.

While the fed funds rate target will remain at a range of 1.50% to 1.75% and there will be no new Summary of Economic Projections, the FOMC meeting may offer insight into areas that may become problematic and its thinking on the balance sheet, analysts suggest.

Andy Byford’s departure as MTA New York City Transit president rekindled questions about governance at one of the world’s largest mass transit agencies.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will discuss voluntary disclosure and buy-side perspectives among other topics in March.

Report for January 24, 2020

A grand jury is probing the Jacksonville-owned utility as well as a community-based group and a special City Council investigative committee.

A mixture of taxable and tax-exempt deals priced into a market flush with cash. Muni yields continued to descend, as they moved three basis points lower today.

The deal comes as the state's transportation plans will shift to rely more on cash than on commission borrowing going forward.

Miroslava Mejia Krug is a veteran of top fiscal posts at two Chicago-area private higher education institutions.