- Broker-Dealer Settles FINRA Charges for Systemic Supervisory Failures.
- Economists Find Underreporting of Municipalities’ Private Debt Obligations.
- Why There’s Rising Interest in Giving More Updates to Bondholders.
- The Art and Science of Prepaying Bonds.
- BLX/Orrick 2021 Post-Issuance Compliance Workshop – Hybrid Event: Registration Now Open
- The NABL Workshop: Hybrid 2021
- And finally, Perhaps We Shouldn’t Have Mined The Sandbox? is brought to us this week by Gabbard v. Madison Local School District Board of Education, in which the Ohio Supreme Court was enlisted to settle a tiff between a local school district and the state regarding the qualifications and training required for school personnel to carry concealed weapons on school grounds. Or, as the court phrased it, “…to convey into and possess in a school safety zone deadly weapons or dangerous ordnance for the safety of the district’s students.” Believe we’re on the same page w/r/t the “deadly weapons,” but the mind reels at the possibilities invoked by the inclusion of “dangerous ordnance.” But, as we all know, the only thing that stops a bad guy with gun is a Home Economics teacher with a Howitzer.