Commercial banking

Larry Mohr, CPA, MBT, is a tax principal with Baker Tilly's not-for-profit practice. He has 35 years of experience providing tax-related services for not-for-profit organizations.

By the close, muni yields were bumped up to four basis points, depending on the curve, while UST yields rose two to five basis points.

Walter O'Connor's decades-long tenure as a municipal bond portfolio manager at BlackRock will come to an end next year. 

The deal is expected to conclude in the summer of 2026, and at that time Elon University will operate Queens University of Charlotte.

A congressional budget impasse is leading toward a stopgap funding measure via a continuing resolution which could solve a budget shortage in the District of Columbia.

The House oversight subcommittee hearing was titled "Virtue Signaling vs. Vital Services."

Ohio politicians are racing to deliver relief as a citizens group gathers signatures for a November 2026 ballot initiative to end property taxes in the state.

Daily report for September 17, 2025

As the "slope of the municipal yield curve remains extremely steep and long bonds are cheap relative to U.S. Treasuries," Daryl Clements, a portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein, predicts "long municipal bonds have a long way to go until they are considered fair value."

Amit Ranjan is Executive Vice President, Global Head of Data and Risk Analytics at Xceedance, a global consulting, technology, and operations leader for insurance organizations. With 25 years of diverse experience, he oversees catastrophe modeling, actuarial and data insight services. He specializes in leveraging advanced modeling techniques, statistical analysis, and data-driven strategies to optimize underwriting, pricing, and portfolio management.

David Klasing Esq. CPA M.S.-Tax, is founder and managing attorney at the Tax Law Offices of David W. Klasing. He has earned dual California licenses that enable him to simultaneously practice as an attorney and as a CPA in the practice areas of taxation, estate planning and business law. He provides businesses and individuals with tax representation, planning and compliance services, and criminal tax representation. He has more than 20 years of professional tax, accounting and business consulting experience, coupled with extensive knowledge about federal and state tax codes, regulations and case law.

A group of bondholders are floating fresh financing to a bankrupt metals recycler that elevates their bonds above other holders.

Minnesota plans to go to market Sept. 23 with a $1.27 billion general obligation bond sale.

Andrew Nakahata will replace Scott Wu as executive director and CEO less than a year after joining the organization.

Bond attorneys are eyeballing the possibility of attaching a tax title to the surface transportation reauthorization that could include issues of great interest to the municipal bond community as the appropriations process remains stuck in first gear.