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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has filed to extend G-27 relief to give dealers an extra six-month window for remote inspections

Some projects that were budgeted and started at the beginning of the inflation spiral are now in jeopardy.

North Carolina Republican Patrick McHenry — who's in line to lead the House Financial Services Committee after the GOP won control of the chamber in the midterm elections — has called for the Fed to stay focused on controlling inflation. Democrats, who retained the Senate, have begun to voice concerns that higher borrowing costs will hurt jobs and potentially cause a recession.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard urged policymakers to raise interest rates further, saying the level will need to be higher to meet the central bank's goal to be "sufficiently restrictive" to bring down inflation.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's FY 2022 results show the Commission filed 760 enforcement actions and recovered $6.4 billion in penalties and disgorgement, a 9% increase from FY 2021.

The future of ESG and how it relates to the present raises questions about the general nature of public finance. 

The DOT's federal financing pipeline has mushroomed in recent years, as has the type of projects being financed.

Federal Reserve officials stressed the need to keep raising interest rates while acknowledging recent encouraging news on U.S. consumer prices.

As issuers continue to discover new ways to unlock infrastructure funding, out-of-the box thinking may win the day.

The City of Rochester, New York, and its former finance director appear set in fighting SEC charges that they defrauded investors in connection with a 2019 bond offering.