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Record inflows of cash to municipal-bond mutual funds coupled with the drop in tax-exempt yields has helped fuel the number of deals in more default prone sectors.

CommonSpirit Health will sell $2.7 billion of taxable bonds and $3.1 billion of tax-exempt debt, with BBB-plus ratings, into a supply-starved market.

Brown left city government at the end of Rahm Emanuel's administration.

Veteran-owned Academy Securities has hired Chicago-based public finance banker James Carter

Registered advisory firm Dale Scott & Co. will pay $25,000, and one firm and one individual each will pay $10,000 for acting as unregistered solicitors.

The municipal bond market will continue to see a swarm of mid-sized deals that will be taken down with ease, continuing the good times that have been fueled by 27 straight weeks of fund inflows.

RBC Capital Markets added Ian Parker as it positions itself to help issuers bring to market billions of dollars in authorized affordable housing debt.

Former Hilltop Securities bankers Chris Allen and Gabriella Briceno have joined RBC Capital Markets in Houston where they will seek to grow RBC's financial advisory business.

The Massachusetts Port Authority expects to price $461 million of revenue bonds through a negotiated sale primarily to accommodate growth at New England's largest airport.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot tapped aviation finance chief Reshma Soni for comptroller and elevated debt manager Jack Brofman to deputy CFO.