Request for Information on the MSRB’s Rate Card Process: SIFMA Comment Letter
MSRB Discusses Market Regulation, Structure and Transparency Initiatives.
Cyber Threats in Public Finance: Protecting Transactions from Wire Fraud – Orrick
NFMA Draft Best Practices for Public Power – Comments Due February 15
Quincy CFO Talks BlackRock Purchase of Blockchain-Powered Municipal Bond.
Market and Credit Rating Outlook: GFOA Webinar
And Finally, There Goes Your Security Deposit is brought to us this week by Bakos v. Roach, in which the Court of Appeal informed us that, “Matthew Bakos ran a pheasant hunting club in Lincoln, providing pheasants for hunting and hunting dogs for rent.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, Your Editor initially read this sentence to mean that Mr. Bakos would rent you both the pheasants and the dogs. As renting presupposes the safe(ish) return of the object being rented, we were happy for the dogs, but profoundly unclear on the role of the pheasants in this exchange. Don’t know about you, but each time I’ve attempted to return an item (e.g. Little Sister; Dick Cheney) embedded with fresh buckshot, the process has been marked by considerable explanations and recriminations.

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