The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s visiting scholar Lourdes Germán will use the board’s data to help research ESG trends in public finance, including the impact of ESG on the secondary market.

After a deal fell apart last year amid controversy over private prisons, the state returns with new underwriters and a traditional municipal finance structure.

Dave Erdman has become one of the top issuer voices in the public finance community. As he heads off this summer into the private sector, Erdman reflects on his time on the GFOA's influential debt committee. Caitlin Devitt hosts. (14 minutes)

The laws raise borrowing costs for issuers and limit the distribution networks, according to a study.

Bridger Aerospace plans to sell $160 million in unrated taxable revenue bonds, with a verified sustainability designation, through conduit Gallatin County.

NOAA predicts six to 10 hurricanes and expects that between three and six of those will be classified as major storms in categories three to five.

As summer beckons, it's time for a reporters' roundtable with some of the Bond Buyer's senior staff. Yvette Shields, Karen Pierog, Keeley Webster and Thomas Nocera talk with Chip Barnett about what's hot in their regions and what municipal bond market participants should expect to see in the months ahead. (25 minutes)

The MSRB addressed its controversial request for information during the Government Finance Officers Association’s first live conference in two years.

A decades-old policy position on taxable debt and recommendations for issuance of variable-rate debt were among the issues taken up by the GFOA's debt committee.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has come forward with a proposal that would expand the Names Rule to include any language associated with ESG related metrics.

"It is a disturbing trend that elected officials are using their powers to punish companies and municipal governments (and individuals) based on their social views," says Natalie Cohen, founder of The Public Purse.

Chicago hasn't shied away from using its relationships with investment banks to pursuit of larger social goals, but it hasn't always gone the city's way.

Elected officials in Republican-dominated states say S&P Global Ratings, by introducing ESG analysis, is politicizing the ratings process or even possibly acting illegally.

The bulk of the first tranches of the $15 billion of IIJA funds will likely be used to figure out where lead lines are located, so states and water systems can determine the scope of the problem.

Issuer fears that ESG regulation will lead to disclosure trouble are overblown, the SEC’s muni office chief said Wednesday.

Coordinated national efforts to share firefighters and other resources could be stretched thin this year as drought hammers the West.

Commercial PACE loans facilitated through the Illinois Finance Authority and Cook County supported hotels, a historic theater, an indoor vertical farm, and rental kitchens.