- New MSRB Notice Summarizes Provisions of Municipal Advisor Conduct Rule.
- MSRB Notice Details MA Conduct Requirements; Webinar Planned.
- NABL: SEC Announces 2016 Examination Priorities.
- BDA’s January 2016 Member Fly-in Focused on FINRA 4210 Margin Amendments.
- BDA Submits Comment Letter to SEC in Response to FINRA ATS Trade Reporting Amendments.
- Paying for Protection: The Return of Bond Insurers.
- S&P Report Says 2016 Could Be New Era in Bond Refinancing in the Project Finance Sector.
- One of the Biggest Bond Market Players Has No Employees.
- Fitch Updates Criteria for Rating Public-Sector Counterparty Obligations in PPP Transactions.
- Haggart v. Woodley – In “rails-to-trails” class action takings claim, Court of Appeals reverses Court of Federal Claims’ approval of settlement agreement between U.S. and landowners, disapproving class counsel’s methodology (extrapolation) for calculating fair market value for properties and holding that fee-shifting statute (URA) foreclosed application of common fund doctrine to action.
- And finally, Location, Location, Location! is brought to you this week by Sid-Mar’s Restaurant & Lounge, Inc. v. State ex rel. Governor, in which the state argued that (now submerged) restaurant property had never been eligible for private ownership, as it had formerly been (literally) the bottom of Lake Ponchartrain. Seems like someone may have been a tad unclear on the concept of lakefront property.