Public finance

A healthy response to Chicago's first tender invitation is expected to bolster the savings on $1.47 billion of refinancing debt the city sells this week.

University's parking project is part of the first phase of its 10-year capital improvement project.

The Better Housing Foundation's Chicagoland suburban bond portfolios are now experiencing bond covenant and payment defaults.

Alan Schankel, a longtime municipal bond analyst and managing director at Janney Capital Markets in Philadelphia, has retired.

Look for an expanded buyer base, including an international focus, as a new decade in munis dawns

Officials in the Massachusetts city insist taxpayers will not be on the hook for the planned minor-league Polar Park in the Canal District.

The Bond Buyer's Paul Burton and Chip Barnett explore variables and pressure points in advance of the city's FY21 preliminary budget release.

It has been a couple of years since the market has seen an active January to start the year.

The announcement Monday involved last March’s ruling by the First Circuit Court of Appeals on the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority’s special revenue bonds.

Transportation advocates focused on new state revenue sources that can place the cash-strapped agency on firmer financial footing.

S&P dropped the the nation's second-most-populous county — one of many Illinois governments struggling with retirement plan funding — to A-plus from AA-minus.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s warnings that cities could absorb more Medicaid costs have triggered uncertainty about the city's budget.

The Windy City is looking to add even more savings to a $1.3 billion debt refinancing with a tender invitation for some of its older, higher-yielding bonds. “The tender is just gravy,” City CFO Jennie Huang Bennett said last week.

Attendees at The Bond Buyer’s Deal of the Year ceremony look ahead to the new year and discuss what they feel will be the biggest stories of 2020.

Attendees at The Bond Buyer’s Deal of the Year ceremony talk about what issues they think had the biggest impact in municipal finance last year.

The bondholders appeal to the U.S. First Circuit Court in Boston.

Demand for municipal bonds is much stronger in 2020 than it was to end 2019, illustrated by record inflows into the asset class in the latest reporting week.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's assets dropped by $8.5 million.

The last-ditch attempt to settle Preston Hollow Capital's lawsuit against Nuveen failed this week.

Paige Cognetti takes over in the aftermath of a corruption scandal and faces tough economic challenges, including an adverse ruling in a taxpayer lawsuit.