Munis

With a new Texas Rangers venue opening in March, the city of Arlington, Texas, plans to add an adjacent hotel and convention center.

Municipal bond buyers have plenty of cash in hand and will have various options as to where to put that money to work.

The Lincoln-Way high school district won a Moody's upgrade to Baa2 ahead of a $23 million refinancing deal.

The Jacksonville, Florida-owned utility’s managing director and chief financial officer were both fired amid turmoil over a privatization process, which was canceled.

The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to focus on protecting Main Street investors in municipal bonds.

The municipal bond market eclipsed the $400 billion mark for the fourth time since 2010, thanks to taxable trend that led to a vault in fourth quarter volume.

GASB’s final guidance on the Replacement of Interbank Offered Rates is expected to be issued in March, giving state and municipal governments plenty of time to make adjustments before Libor is phased out by the end of 2021.

State government issuers are expected to sell $4.68 billion of new money bonds in fiscal 2020, a 6.5% increase, according to the Texas Bond Review Board.

As surface transportation funding is set to expire later in 2020, a new reauthorization could help push muni bond initiatives next year.

Retail investors have felt confident in the muni bond space for most of 2019.

While municipal bond volume looks to end the year on a surprisingly high note, muni bond yields unexpectedly hit record lows twice in 2019.

Events at the SEC are likely to create a number of important MSRB rule changes in the coming year.

Public backlash and procedural missteps led the Jacksonville, Florida municipal utility’s board to end negotiations with potential bidders.

The U.S. Department of Transportation reasonably determined the Florida’s passenger train owners were qualified to receive private activity bond financing.

Another round of tax legislation is not expected to emerge until the very end of the year after the presidential election or in 2021 after a new Congress is sworn in.

In response to the SEC's complaint, the former chief business officer of a California school district said he acted in good faith.

The deal for the Houston-area beltway builder is expected to come in three large tranches early next year.

Ballard Spahr’s public finance group is increasing in size as it grows beyond traditional tax-exempt financings.

Moody’s Investors Service lowered the rating of the private collage in upstate New York to Ba3 from Ba1.

The issuance limit on tax-exempt private activity bonds for Industrial Development Bonds would be raised to $30 million from the current $10 million while the limitation for first-time farmers using so-called Aggie Bonds would be raised to $552,500 from $450,000.