Municipal advisors

The firm's leaders say Hilltop Securities sees growth opportunity in municipal bond underwriting, while financial advisory services will "grow selectively."

Much of the material being retired dates back more than 35 years.

Steven Kantor and Kayla MacEwen join a team that has mostly come from Hilltop, expanding Texas-based Masterson Advisors' reach deep into the Northeast.

Acacia and Estrada grew substantially.

Since a temporary exemption allowing muni advisors to facilitate certain private placement deals expired, a federal court cannot strike it down, the SEC argued.

This will be MSRB’s first board meeting of the calendar year.

Steven Kantor, a regional managing director based in New York, was among those cut, sources said.

Robbi Jones, principal at Kipling Jones & Co., received that ruling on appeal from FINRA’s National Adjudicatory Council late last month.

Sources say pricing of bonds will be a prevalent issue in 2021 following comments made by bipartisan SEC commissioners.

SEC Chair Clayton told Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., late last week that he expects the program to sunset at year's end as scheduled.

Multiple news articles, which the SEC did not include, contradict the commission's major reasoning for why a temporary exemption for municipal advisors was needed, SIFMA said.

The SEC said the court should oppose SIFMA's motion to include news articles in the proceedings, saying the group relied on only one rationale.

The number of issuers using a temporary exemption jumped to 101 in October from 35 the previous month.

During an industry briefing Tuesday, SIFMA's Kenneth Bentsen, Jr., said no matter who leads the SEC next, SIFMA will argue for an end to a temporary exemptive order.

SIFMA told a federal court that the SEC's process failed when it announced the temporary conditional exemption for muni advisors.

The MSRB is looking specifically for issuers and non-dealer municipal advisors.

The board, at the first quarterly board meeting of its 2021 fiscal year, also voted to split its existing Nominating and Governance Committee into two.

Five new muni professionals join Hilltop Securities’ debt and fixed income capital market teams; all of them came from Wells Fargo.

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