Public pension and municipal advisors are among the examination priorities for the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2017, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations announced Thursday.

Municipal market participants see a slowing of Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service guidance and rules in 2017, but plan to closely watch for tweaks to management contract guidance, final requirements for public approval of private activity bonds and political subdivision rules.

Following the Bridgegate scandal, there's been another political collision in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's world.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has agreed to admit wrongdoing and pay a $400,000 penalty to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it failed to disclose risks associated with New Jersey road projects to the investors that bought the bonds to finance them.

The Campaign Legal Center is trying to convince a federal court overseeing a challenge brought by Republican groups that the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s rule changes to prevent municipal advisors from engaging in pay-to-play practices are legal and needed to address the potential for corruption in the municipal market.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's enforcement priorities for 2017 will include ensuring municipal advisors are properly registered with regulators, checking broker-dealers' compliance with best execution requirements, and monitoring firms' efforts to avoid unsuitable recommendations of securities.

Former Miami budget director Michael Boudreaux is asking a federal judge for a new trial over Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he committed securities fraud because he believes the previous trial was unfairly prejudiced against him.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of New York lawyer Jay Clayton to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission represents a balanced choice for the agency in line with Trump’s focus on deregulation but municipal participants will likely have to wait to find out what impact he may have on the muni market, individuals and groups said.

The Rhode Island Commerce Corp. and Securities and Exchange Commission are close to reaching a final settlement over fraud charges the SEC brought in connection with a private placement involving the video game company 38 Studios.

While most muni market participants agree that 2017 could be the year of comprehensive tax reform, they have mixed views on whether the muni exemption is safe under the tax proposals of President-Elect Donald Trump and House Republicans.

Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement officials are expected to focus on disclosure and pricing abuses as well as increase their oversight of municipal advisors during the coming year, according to regulators and market participants.

Multiple early initiatives will crowd Donald Trump's administration, Citi VP and former White House advisor Candi Wolff told Massachusetts investors.

Ross Sinclaire & Associates has agreed to pay $250,000 and to disgorge ill-gotten gains to settle muni rules violations with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority after it improperly acted as a financial advisor and underwriter on the same muni issuances. The Cincinnati-based firm also failed to disclose material facts in offering documents and was late in filing underwriting disclosures with regulators, FINRA said.

SEC sues, U.S. Attorney indicts former official of New York State Common Retirement Fund and two brokers over pay-to-play scheme.

An Illinois school district under federal scrutiny for its past misuse of bond proceeds saw its rating fall to junk as Moody’s Investors Service lowered the Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 one notch to Ba1.

Scottsdale settles dispute with IRS with payment of almost $751,000 and its authority settles claims with bond counsel for $75,000.

Revere Securities was fined $10,000 for trade reporting failures while two individuals were fined a total of $22,500 and suspended for improper trading of municipal securities and supervisory failures by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Brad Bennett, who oversaw many important municipal bond enforcement cases over nearly six years, plans to leave the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as its enforcement chief early next year and return to private practice.

The IRS's Final Regulations represent a departure from current rules that will affect long-held practices for issuers, underwriters and financial advisors.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will not bring any more settlements under its Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation initiative and will instead focus on those underwriters and issuers that did not voluntarily disclose violations under the MCDC.