Commercial banking

A state-by-state review of 2025 midyear issuance in the Southwest.

A lawsuit seeks to force the Texas city to reword its Nov. 4 property tax rate hike proposition to correct "misleading" language.

While Trump's trade war has roiled markets, unnerved foreign governments and provoked criticism from leading economists, S&P affirmed its AA-plus rating for the U.S. — a score it's given since 2011, when it first downgraded the world's largest economy from AAA.

Steven B. Goldman is a senior lecturer at MIT and director of the Crisis Management & Business Resiliency and Advanced Business Resiliency courses. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Harvard University, where he lectures on Crisis and Risk Communications, and directs the Radiological Emergency Management program.

Sandra Galletti is the assistant director of MIT's Crisis Management & Business Resiliency and Advanced Business Resiliency courses. She also serves as head of operations and resilience at Tidona Comunicazione in Milan, Italy.

The deputy treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will be inducted into The Bond Buyer's Hall of Fame of Municipal Finance in Boston on Sept. 30.

Bond sales in the eight-state region totaled $54.9 billion, trailing the nation with an 8.1% gain year-over-year as Texas issuance slipped 7.6%.

Daily report for August 19, 2025

"If unfavorable economic numbers ... are released next month, we should expect a hold on any rate cuts and a possible rate hike to follow, putting a damper on any positive returns for the rest of the year," said Jason Wong, vice president of municipals at AmeriVet Securities.

KC Mathews, executive vice president and chief market strategist at Commerce Trust breaks down the FOMC meeting.

The state will charge active employees higher salary-based health plan premiums to avoid a near-term $1.3 billion deficit.

The state is expected to pursue a TIFIA loan instead of toll revenue bonds.

The pair is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 13.

Alexandra Mousavizadeh is the co-founder and co-CEO of Evident, an AI benchmarking intelligence platform that specializes in ranking companies on their AI adoption progress. She has 20 years experience in building indexes for nations and companies on economic and technological issues. Prior to Evident, Mousavizadeh led Tortoise Media's intelligence business, where she developed the Global AI Index. Previously, she was director of The Prosperity Index for the Legatum Institute (now the Prosperity Institute). Mousavizadeh's earlier roles include CEO of ARC Rating, senior sovereign analyst for Moody's and head of country risk management at Morgan Stanley.

Brendan Clegg is a partner at Luse Gorman, PC.

Doe announced his decision to hand over the day-to-day duties to his partners in a client email on Friday.

The annual awards for the municipal finance industry will be celebrated at the close of The Bond Buyer's Infrastructure conference in Boston, September 29-30, 2025.