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Ritta McLaughlin, winner of the public sector Freda Johnson Award for Trailblazing Women, speaks at The Bond Buyer’s Deal of the Year ceremony on Dec. 4.

The deal consisted of both a complex restructuring of nearly 50 series of debt and new money reimbursement, and generated the largest order book for a municipal not-for-profit transaction, with $40 billion in orders.

The muni primary was busier than expected, as two mega deals priced one day early to take advantage of market conditions.

The state should allocate $4 billion, the majority of its 2020 private activity bond allocation, to affordable housing, said the California Housing Consortium.

The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority prices $807.7 million in subordinate bonds Thursday for the capital plan.

The Federal Reserve’s banking regulation chief granted that Wall Street may have been right that the agency shares blame in September’s alarming strain in money markets.

The state government would reshuffle Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funds to the city.

The survey of 17 economists found they were split over the next interest rate move by the Federal Reserve.

Petitioner John Tillman Wednesday appealed the August circuit court ruling barring his taxpayer complaint challenging repayment of the bonds.

In a recent Moody's report, analysts said states would be able to weather a moderate recession due to healthy reserves.

The first recipient of the Innovative award is the Cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas’ nearly $1.2 billion taxable refinancing.

The Vermont Municipal Bond Bank is the Small Issuer honoree for its $31.5 million issuance of Local Investment Bonds.

The bond bank is the winner in the Midwest for its $625 million issuance of bonds secured by lease rental payments for its Community Justice Campus.

The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County, Florida wins the Southeast for a $347.6 million refunding utilizing "Cinderella bonds," which employ a crossover taxable and tax-exempt structure.

The first-ever honoree in the P3 category is Transurban’s 95 Express Lanes for $262 million of Senior Lien Revenue Bonds, issued by VSBFA, to fund its 10-mile Fredericksburg Extension project.

The San Diego Association of Governments’ $331 million capital grants receipts revenue bond sale is the honoree in the Far West.

The Health Care winner is the $6.5 billion CommonSpirit Health financing, the largest ever by a not-for-profit health system.

The Battery Park City Authority claimed the Northeast crown for its $673 million offering for resilience projects in a neighborhood devastated by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

The Southwest recipient is the City of Austin’s $464.5 million offering of taxable revenue bonds to fund its acquisition of a biomass-fired power plant for the city’s electric utility.

The inaugural winner in the ESG/Green category is the L.A. County MTA's $545 million offering of sales tax revenue bonds, which included $418.5 million second-party-verified green bonds.