Municipal advisors

The proposed guidance does not indicate any particular problems with compliance, the MSRB said.

A firm and its two principals have been charged for an improper fee-splitting arrangement under the relatively new regulatory regime for municipal advisors.

Making the Federal Reserve's Municipal Liquidity Facility a permanent emergency lending program would be “valuable and forward thinking," Connecticut Treasurer Shawn Wooden told a House subcommittee.

Muni advisors can dialogue with regulators on key obligations from multiple perspectives

The MSRB has announced an extension for municipal bond advisors seeking Series 54 certification, moving the compliance date from to Nov. 30, 2021, from Nov.12.

John Pellici and Yaffa Rattner bring deep public finance experience to Hilltop.

The announcement came after the municipal advisors trade group said it had received a report of COVID-19 exposure at a testing site.

At stake, from SIFMA's perspective, is the potential of the SEC to revive the exemption in the future.

It was a busy quarterly board meeting for the MSRB.

Ed Sisk, a managing director and head of public finance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has been MSRB chair since Oct. 1, 2019.