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Municipal bond issuers are coming market at a 26.2% faster pace than they were at this point last year.

Municipal bond underwriters are on pace to easily surpass last year's total, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Top bookrunners have accounted for a total of $328.60 billion through the first three quarters of the year, up from the $267.91 billion in the first nine months of 2019. The top five saw small changes compared to a year ago, while spots six through 10 saw more of a mix.

The company's upcoming $3.2 billion deal marks the largest sale of unrated debt in the muni market.

The firm hired seven new senior-level bankers in its fixed income division.

Five specialists from the former BB&T Capital Markets, now part of Truist, are moving to Hilltop Securities.

With Congress gridlocked over the coronavirus rescure package, the nation's largest trasit authority may have to look for other options.

The rating agency lowered the authority's transportation revenue bonds to A3 from A2, citing again the effects of the coronavirus.

S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Pennsylvania's A-plus rating to negative from stable ahead of Wednesday's competitive general obligation bond sale.

Municipal bond volume kept rolling in August, producing the second-highest volume for the month in the past decade, marking the third consecutive month this year of greater-than $40 billion.

Municipal issuers in the Far West sold $38.7 billion in bonds during the first six months of 2020, 8.8% more than they did the year before.

Municipal bond issuers in the Southeast sold $27.7 billion of debt, down 7% year-over-year as the region saw fewer big transportation and prepay gas deals.

New York City's comptroller wants the mayor to pull the executive order he issued in March, when the city needed to quickly purchase ventilators and other coroavirus-related equipment.

The region's municipal bond issuers borrowed $40.4 billion during the first half of the year as record low rates more than tripled refunding activity.

Joe Torsella said the online tool will help portray long-term drivers of the state’s financial picture.

Low rates in an economic crisis brought a plethora of Southwest municipal bonds to market, and some see a strong second half coming.

A surge in taxable muni volume has overall issuance 18% higher in the first half of 2020.

The housing and transportation sectors had the biggest declines in municipal bond volume.

The region's bond issuers sold $55.4 billion of municipal debt during the first half of 2020, a 21.1% increase from the same period in 2019.

The structure in which bonds are backed by a lease of city streets is being used in the Southern California cities of Torrance and West Covina.

The mass transit agency, its finances reeling from the coronavirus, rejected bids from 10 different banks and sold $451 million of notes to the Municipal Liquidity Facility.