As climate and cybersecurity risks intensify, Jeff Lipton argues it's time for the legal community to lead a new era of municipal disclosure — tightening language, clarifying exposures, and ensuring investor confidence.

Approval by Doña Ana County of $165 billion of industrial revenue bonds for a massive data center project is being challenged in state court.

The Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is facing federal deadlines after a series of fires. 

The attackers did not steal any data, but the firm had to rebuild its servers to get back into operation, said Albert Rodriguez, a manager at ImageMaster.

"If I wanted to target municipal finance, this would be a really good place for me to start," said Omid Rahmani, public finance cybersecurity lead at Fitch Ratings.

Utilities, and the local governments and states that house data centers, are wrestling with policy questions about who should cover the costs of the projected spikes in water and electricity demand.

BondLink's client issuers reached over $500 billion in bond sales while working with the municipal bond platform.

Data center projects, which are proliferating across the country, are taking advantage of tax breaks that can be costly for states and local governments.

Nevada is the latest public entity to be hit by a cyberattack, with officials struggling to restore services.

The Trump administration's latest attempt to pull MTA funds comes after an audit of railway worker safety risks.

Would-be underwriters of the general obligation bonds will be able to see where they've been ranked among all the bids, and to improve their bid accordingly.

St. Paul, Minnesota, is recovering from a cyber attack that overwhelmed the city's defenses ahead of its Aug. 19 bond deal close.

The deal could hasten buy-side adoption of the tech, said Spline's CEO

In the first quarter of this year, 18.6% of new-issue volume in the market was traded electronically, up from 17.3% last year, according to data from Coalition Greenwich.

"There's a lot more we can do now that we have a platform," said DPC DATA CEO Ken Hoffman.

The law has become no less controversial nearly three years after its passage.

CEO Michael Ruvo calls the Effi module an "offensive tool" that complements the firm's other transaction analytics instruments.

The software uses pre-trade quote data to help predict the next trade level of bonds.

Since the attack, many in the industry have had conversations about how to better secure transfer of funds, Vivian Altman said.

In April, WisdomTree launched two new exchange-traded funds, Nuveen debuted a high-income separately-managed account product and more.