Opponents say passage of Amendment 5 in November would threaten Florida’s ability to fund state priorities and its triple-A ratings.

Gary Hall, who became the new MSRB chair on Monday, says he has a "reverence" for the muni market.

The Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act of 2018 which passed 220 to 191 isn’t expected to become law because the Senate won’t consider it this year.

The Internal Revenue Service has taken no action regarding tax-exempt refunding bonds that were issued for Gettysburg College in 2010, after closing an audit that appears to have been randomly initiated.

SEC and MSRB officials responded to the concerns and frustrations of bond lawyers who were meeting in Chicago.

SIFMA is publishing a new model document that it says should help underwriters avoid regulatory risk.

The amount of outstanding variable rate demand bonds rose to $142.4 billion in the second quarter of this year, a gain over $142.2 billion in the first quarter and the end of a decade-long decline, Moody’s Investor Service said in a recent report.

Incoming NABL president Dee Wisor wants the group to be more active in Washington.

The MSRB is hoping that new guidelines will encourage more conversation between its staff and the broker-dealers and muni advisors it regulates.

Municipal advisors may be subject simultaneously to conflicts of interest that should be fully disclosed under both federal and state law.

The competitive GO deal will feature five- or eight-year calls.

Carlos Braceras, elected as the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ new president on Monday, said one of his goals will be to persuade Congress to include more funding and policy reforms in surface transportation reauthorization legislation.

FINRA examiners alleged Mesirow violated disclosure and supervisory rules.

A Carlsbad, Calif.-based San Diego-based firm, Eric Hall & Associates, is accused of being unregistered when it served as municipal advisor to a school district.

California government officials are trying to figure out how best to use the Opportunity Zones created in the 2017 federal tax bill.

A pilot program for the new Series 54 exam should be available early next year, the MSRB announced.

The MSRB's guidance on social media use by muni advisors under its new advertising rule could use some work, market participants said.

Where the SEC's Rick Fleming sees potential benefits, broker-dealers see burdensome, duplicative work.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board on Monday released final and draft guidance on issues related to its G-40 advertising rules for municipal advisors.

The disclosure of some variable-rate demand obligation information on EMMA shouldn't be used to dismiss a lawsuit alleging fraud in VRDO remarketing,lawyers for the plaintiff told an Illinois court.