Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board voted to propose amendments to extend remote inspections until the end of this year, in addition to adjusting its fee model for the 2023 year.
January 28 -
Moody’s also assigned an A1 to the authority's $950 million of forward delivery refunding bonds.
January 27 -
S&P raised the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, Tennessee's senior-lien airport revenue bonds issued for the Nashville International Airport to A-plus.
January 27 -
The transition away from Libor presents challenges for small issuers with fewer resources to evaluate legacy contracts.
January 26 -
Industry advocacy groups want uniform rules that enhance clarity and common understanding without adding complexity or liability.
January 25 -
Groups believe that the draft compliance resources contain some useful information, though they could be construed as creating new compliance requirements.
January 20 -
The city’s financial status was so distressed after the 2008 economic crash that there was talk of insolvency.
January 13 -
The Municipal Rulemaking Securities Board's annual report and audited financial statements were published Tuesday.
January 11 -
California has produced increasingly late audited financial documents since it fully launched FI$Cal, the state's massive financial technology system in 2019.
January 5 -
Hammerman has spent more than 18 years with the group, participating in a number of important policy discussions about munis.
January 5 -
The Senate Banking Committee will hold separate hearings next week for Jerome Powell on his nomination to a second term as Federal Reserve chair and for Lael Brainard’s elevation to vice chair.
January 4 -
The proposed guidance, which restricts new highway capacity projects, may be applied to legacy programs like TIFIA as well.
January 4 -
Todd Cipperman, founding principal of Cipperman Compliance Services, talks with Chip Barnett about compliance and disclosure and regulation by the federal government in 2022. (42 minutes)
January 4 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has begun accepting applications for two regulated and two public board positions until Feb. 7.
January 4 -
Shawn Wooden has called for strengthening the Fed’s short term municipal lending program and enactment of a national baby bond program.
January 3 -
The MSRB's priorities for the year include action on ESG, updates to its EMMALabs platform, and more requests for comment aimed at modernizing its rulebook.
January 3 -
Unregistered municipal advisor activity and breaches of fiduciary duty remain priorities.
December 30 -
Fitch raised the CBOE’s issuer default rating and outstanding unlimited tax GOs to BB-plus from BB and outstanding dedicated capital improvement tax bonds to A from A-minus.
December 29 -
Industry advocates want to preserve allocation of private activity bonds to the states and help Congress understand the benefits of advance refunding.
December 27 -
Yan Zhao, President of NYDIG as she exploreshow Bitcoin is experiencing wider adoption in the traditional finance world, and why that is.



















