Capital markets

The professionals are expected to strengthen Raymond James' abilities in land-secured public finance.

Cloud tech and AI are two of the most important and impactful technologies for the development and operation of many analytical and optimization tools for the municipal market, company representatives say. 

Student housing bonds trade wide for a reason: declining college-age populations, private competition and non-recourse structures make demand, disclosure, university commitment and stress-testing the signals investors need to validate, writes Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton.

Budgets for Houston, Austin, Dallas, and Fort Worth come amid credit quality improvements and calls from Gov. Greg Abbott to rein in local government spending.

Box Elder School District's general obligation rating was cut to A1 from Aa2 ahead of a certificates of participation sale this week.

Oregon's largest city plans to issue $585.6 million in revenue bond debt to finance upgrades its Bull Run water filtration facility.

The latest Moody's downgrades to the district's general obligation and lease obligation debt affect $847 million of outstanding bonds.

The outlook revision to negative from stable for the system's revenue bond ratings was spurred by expense-increasing moves in the fiscal 2027 budget.

Moody's Ratings and Fitch Ratings both lifted their rating outlooks to positive on the San Francisco Unified School District.

NYC's final budget did enough for KBRA to bring its rating outlook on New York City back up to stable.

The industry-shaping inductees helped shape the laws, practices, institutions and analytical approaches that underpin municipal finance, while building legacies that extend beyond individual deals and organizations.

Introducing The Bond Buyer's newest class of Rising Stars, who will be honored at an awards dinner in Chicago on Sept. 14-15, 2026.

Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton says muni investors should treat July as a reset, not a retreat, with positive flows, compelling taxable-equivalent yields and selective repricing supporting modest single-digit returns by yearend.

Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton says overreliance on financial ratios can obscure forward-looking credit risks, making qualitative factors such as political willingness, management strategy, cyber-threat preparedness, legal security and economic and policy change essential to muni decision-making.

With longer-term municipal bond yields falling, there's less of an incentive to issue tender option bonds, analysts said, but a market remains. 

Beneficial rainfall allowed the Texas city to move its timeline for a projected water supply emergency to September 2028 from the same month in 2027.

Pennsylvania fuel consumption has been gradually declining, Fitch analysts wrote, straining the security for the turnpike's oil franchise tax revenue bonds.

Cook County, Illinois, will return to market next week with $119.5 million of Series 2026 fixed rate, tax-exempt sales tax revenue bonds.

The deal funds the municipalization of a private water utility that had been controlled by investor-owned utility Eversource.

The city's issuer rating was raised a notch to Aaa and ratings for other debt, including for its water and wastewater utility system, were also upgraded.