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With interest rates at historic lows and stock market returns at record highs, Tucson sees a ripe opportunity to issue pension debt.

While federal funds enabled the transit authority to sidestep fare hikes for now, it faces a raft of pandemic-related variables and state budget uncertainty.

President Joe Biden's pick for transportation secretary took questions from a Senate panel on how the nation might pay for robust infrastructure.

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

This would be the Government Finance Officers Association's first best practice document on ESG.

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

The bonds are coming in three tranches, mixing tax-exempt new money and a taxable refunding.

The Foothill-Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency in California has slated a tender offering exchange for Jan. 21 ahead of a Jan. 25 advance refunding.

After a dramatic year of pandemic and a record bond proposal, Dallas ISD is taking bids on $274 million of bonds to upgrade schools.

Mary Kimura was one of 25 female attorneys promoted to partner globally.

The state will sell $182.2 million of highly rated general obligation bonds in three separate offerings.

A judge said that the lawsuit filed on behalf of California accusing major banks of colluding to inflate VRDO interest rates did not allege the means of the conspiracy.

The growth in issuance in 2020 spread out over the top 10 underwriters, with bulge-bracket firms sharing the wealth.

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LACMA, one of Los Angeles' most prominent museums, will refund debt and move forward on construction of a building for its permanent collection.

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans says monetary policy will need to remain “accommodative for quite a while,” since inflation won’t hit a 2% average for “a long time.”

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.

The new-issue calendar builds from almost nothing to $2.4 billion in the first week of the New Year, with deals ranging from education to taxables to social bonds on tap for investors.

The deal is rated BBB-plus by Fitch Ratings, Baa1 by Moody’s Investors Service and BBB by S&P Global Ratings.