After a bumpy but overall successful launch of markup disclosure, the muni industry looks ahead to regulatory scrutiny and finding ways to use the new data.

Deutsche Bank Securities and Central States Capital Markets agreed to settle with FINRA for a combined $80,000.

The new guidance is just the first of a planned three-part release, which will later cover social media use and the rule's content standards.

Issuer groups urged a Senate Panel to undo a 2014 SEC rule change that required money market funds to use a floating net asset value.

Jose Ramírez has yet to acknowledge wrongdoing in misleading investors about Puerto Rico debt and may pose a continued threat to investors, SEC lawyers told a federal judge.

The SEC contends it played fairly in prosecuting its case against Wells Fargo Securities and Peter Cannava, denying the defense's allegations of dishonest "legal gamesmanship."

Municipal advisors were hoping for something more robust than the comments the MSRB incorporated into its latest "compliance resource."

The federal government's job board stops taking applications next week.

Ex-Morgan Stanley branch manager Terry Lee McCoy failed to act on several "red flags" that the accounts of an elderly and incapacitated customer were being abused, FINRA said.

Georgia used an internet presentation and an investor platform to highlight its credit strengths before its annual general obligation bond sale.

There was friction about the integrity of the muni market during a panel discussion Thursday, but the committee agreed to move along with some disclosure recommendations.

Navnoor Kang, a former director at the New York State Common Retirement Fund, wants home confinement rather than prison.

A quarter of municipal bond issuance so far this year carried just one rating agency opinion, heightening uncertainty over credit quality for some investors.

The three agencies that rate Illinois are watching to see how well assumptions in the budget play out during the fiscal year.

The Government Finance Officers Association said Tuesday it generally supports most of the recommendations an SEC panel plans to discuss in Atlanta later this week.

The proposed rules would clarify that an institutional investor could take part in a public-private partnership for a bond-financed project without making the bonds taxable.

An advisory panel suggested modifying the fee structure for tax law violations to encourage more issuers to self-report them.

The SEC's Investor Advisory Committee's vice chairman is Elisse Walter, the former chairman and commissioner of the SEC who was most responsible for the commission's 2012 Report on the Municipal Securities Markets that suggested some of these muni reforms.

Two town officials also received civil penalties totaling $35,000 and were ordered to resign and be temporarily barred from employment with Ramapo, N.Y.

S&P Global Ratings revised the state's outlook to stable from negative, and Moody’s says the budget's Medicaid expansion is credit positive for hospitals.