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While S&P, Moody's and Fitch still provide ratings on about 92% of municipal bonds, market participants say they don’t rely on the rating agencies as they once did. Part 2 of The Bond Buyer’s series on the decade after the financial crisis.

Funding a major capital program increasingly with debt is a big challenge, said finance director Robert Foran.

Veteran Florida bankers Matthew Sansbury and Alex Bugallo joined the firm’s public finance division as managing directors.

Pension obligation bonds won't be in the mayor's budget plan, and rising rates are making it harder for a deal to pencil out.

After seeing yields rise in recent days to close out the week, the muni market will see under $5 billion in the upcoming holiday-shortened week.

After three quarters, only Morgan Stanley and Jefferies have increased par amount underwritten from last year.

Municipal bond volume is set to start final quarter of the year with a bang, with two issuers accounting for $3.3 billion,

The third quarter ended with a whimper, leaving year-to-date issuance 15% behind last year's pace.

The authority, one of the largest municipal bond issuers, will use the new benchmark to reduce its exposure to Libor, which is slated to sunset.

The competitive GO deal will feature five- or eight-year calls.

The district will bring $75 million of new money and refunding bonds to market.

Lombard sold $3.9 million of unrated GOs in its first market test after reneging on a pledge to support bonds sold to fund a hotel.

The Houston-based firm built by former Hilltop Securities bankers has added three key executives.

Commissioners made no mention of gun policies that led them to oust Citi and Bank of America Merrill Lynch from the deals.

Connecticut’s planned issue of credit revenue bonds is a “potentially terrible long-term solution,” says Municipal Market Analytics.

U.S. Bank’s Tom Gallo looks to the future after a five-decade career that has encompassed everything from pink sheets to the financial crisis.

Legacy costs are crowding out programmatic spending, according to a report by the Citizens Budget Commission's Ana Champeny and Maria Doulis.

Raymond James plans to enhance its standing in Texas public school finance with the addition of Curtil Culwell, who was superintendent of three different school districts.

Officials said the deal was undertaken to simplify the Valley Transportation Authority's debt portfolio.

Ten years ago, the financial avalanche that altered the municipal bond market gathered speed with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.