Bond defaults

The central Texas city of Clyde said it issued tax and revenue anticipation notes with a 9.5% interest rate to repay its insurers after an Aug. 1 bond default.

Bondholders are prepared to loan up to $22 million to the hospital.

The borrowers had failed to make principal payment on November 1 due date, but have since remitted the funds.

Litigation in Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah could determine bond issuance, culpability for defaults, or the constitutionality of underwriter bans.

The city of Clyde defaulted in August and recently revealed it used debt proceeds for debt payments in a manner that "disguised the deficit cash flow."

Eisner Advisory Group Partner Allen Wilen is the chief restructuring officer for Jackson Hospital & Clinic.

The borrower has missed the last five interest payments on the grant-backed bonds.

Clyde, Texas, missed payments on certificates of participation due Aug. 1, the same day it declared a water emergency. Bond insurers are paying the holders.

Fulcrum BioEnergy, which raised more than $1 billion to turn household waste into lower-emitting fuels for planes and trucks, is in danger of going under.

The troubled American Dream mall in New Jersey's Meadowlands benefited from a wider growth in consumer shopping demand.

Enviva's $353 million in tax-exempt bonds currently are among the liabilities at stake in the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Charter schools had the most impairments in the past 12 months.

While Kansas' sales tax and revenue (STAR) bond program recorded its first default late last year, Bonner Springs is considering using it for a development that includes a Mattel toy-themed amusement park.

While the number is high, the par amount affected is less than the first quarter of 2023 figures.

Bond trustee UMB Bank notified bondholders that Branson Airport's leaders want to pursue federal grant funding for maintenance and infrastructure upgrades, but it will require bondholder approval.

The Chapter 11 case for Harvest Gold Silica follows two other bankruptcy filings over the last year by entities that sold bonds through the Arizona Industrial Development Authority.

The potential federal funding "offers the best opportunity to begin to pay bond debt," the museum's CEO told bondholders.

PureCycle Technologies announced that its Ohio subsidiary agreed to buy out the holders of $219.55 million of outstanding tax-exempt private activity bonds.

The bond trustee for the city of Nevada, Missouri-owned Nevada Regional Medical Center declared its bonds to be in default.

Bonds sold through conduit debt issuer Arizona Industrial Development Authority are involved in Chapter 11 bankruptcies filed over the last year.