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H.R. 601 Extends EB-5 Program and Provides $15.25B of Disaster Relief Funds: Ballard Spahr
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Risk Expert Says There’s One Budgeting Question Every City Must Now Ask.
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Force Majeure and Similar Considerations for the Energy Industry in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey: Mayer Brown
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Catastrophe Bonds Avoid Direct Hit From Hurricane Irma.
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After Disaster Strikes, Munis Often Provide New Capital.
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Municipal Finance is the Key to Rebuilding Cities After Disasters.
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Muni Market Holds Up Well During Hurricane Onslaught.
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How Will the Bond Market Hold Up Against the One-Two Punch of Irma and Harvey?
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Commentary: Historic Hurricanes Present a Challenge for Muni Market.
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S&P: How Long ‘Til We Get There? Major Post-Hurricane Recoveries In Recent Years.
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Kroll: Bond Insurers’ Exposure to Harvey and Irma.
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S&P: No Respite For Re/Insurers As Hurricane Irma Prepares To Give A Big Jolt.
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S&P: While Hurricane Irma Prepares For Landfall, Florida Is Already Braced For The Assault.
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Credit FAQ: How To Evaluate Potential Rating Impacts For K-12 School Districts In The Wake Of Natural Disasters Like Harvey And Irma.
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S&P: In A Storm’s Aftermath – Assessing The Impact On Local Government Credit Quality.
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S&P Bulletin: U.S. Virgin Islands Water & Power Authority Revenue Bonds’ Credit Quality Will Likely Deteriorate After Irma.
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Visualizing Hurricane Harvey’s Impact on Houston’s Neighborhoods.
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Hurricane Irma Adds New Fiscal Strain for U.S. Territories.
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Trump Infrastructure Plan Seeks to Shift Decisions – and Bills – to States, Cities.
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Fitch Focus on Munis: Shift in Federal Trade Policy Could Hurt Select State and Local Economies.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 08/31
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New Math Deals Minnesota’s Pensions the Biggest Hit in the U.S.
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Trump Wants States and Cities to Pay More for Infrastructure.
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The Week in Public Finance: Predicting Harvey’s Fiscal Impact and More.
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How Green Bonds Can Bridge Infrastructure Financing Gaps.
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S&P Credit FAQ: What We Look At When Analyzing Cash Flow Notes.
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S&P Median And Credit Factors: Midwest Community College Districts.
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Municipal Bonds, Big Squeeze Getting Tighter – Bankruptcy No Longer Rare.
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Neighborly is Working with California to Return Bond Financing to Individual Investors.
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Pioneering Proposal: Kalamazoo Becomes ‘Laboratory’ for Philanthropy-Backed Municipal Finance.
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Muni Prices Stable Amid Texas Floods, but Investors Watch for Risks.
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S&P: As Hurricane Harvey Hammers Houston, Its Final Impact On Texas Municipalities’ Credit Quality Remains Unclear.
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Harvey’s Havoc May Bypass the Muni Market.
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Why Harvey’s Not Rattling a Bond-Market Haven: QuickTake Q&A
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Houston Will Be A Boomtown In The Muni-Scape: Bloomberg’s Mysak
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Fitch: Hurricane Harvey Takes Aim at Texas Gulf Coast Utilities.
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Fitch: Hurricane Harvey’s Devastation Unlikely to Affect US Public Finance Credit Quality.
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Executive Order Reinforces Measures To Reform Infrastructure Project Review.
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What Does the Demise of Trump’s Infrastructure Council Mean?
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Number of Charter Schools, Students in U.S. Rises: Report
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Don’t Be Afraid Of Buying Premium Bonds.
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NABL Urges Creation of New PABs, Direct-Pay Bonds to Finance Infrastructure.
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Credit FAQ: An Overview Of S&P Global Ratings’ Proposed Methodology For Solid Waste System Financings.
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S&P Request for Comment: Solid Waste System Financings.
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Governments Are Turning to Banks for Easy Money.
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The Week in Public Finance: Higher Ed’s Lost Decade, Straining Connecticut’s Localities and Popular Pensions.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 08/24
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NABL Submits Infrastructure Proposals.
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Two Cities Will Get Chance to Raise Money for Green Infrastructure.
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Startup Seeks Cities to Test Bonds that Put a Twist on Pay-for-Success.
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Issuers: Don’t Let the Rating Agencies Tell Your Story – Tell It Yourself.
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Trump’s Agenda Could Bring Disaster for America’s Aging Infrastructure.
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Trump Infrastructure Push Rolls Back Environmental Rules.
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Indiana Completes Takeover of P3 Road Project.
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New EPA Water Infrastructure Finance Website Open.
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Municipal Market Snapshot.
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How Driverless Cars Could Be a Big Problem for Cities.
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Infrastructure Lessons From One of the Nation’s First P3s.
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The Week in Public Finance: A Hockey Brawl in St. Louis, New Jersey’s Pension Plan and Another Illinois Impasse.
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Climate Bonds Pioneered by Goldman Lure Storm-Plagued Cities.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 08/17
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Fitch: U.S. States Experiment with Cannabis Legalization (New Revenues Boost Bottom Lines but Have Limited Impact on Credit)
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CUSIP: Pre-Market Corporate and Municipal Bond Activity Slows in July Following Two Straight Months of Rapid-Fire Growth.
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Statement by U.S. Conference of Mayors CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran on Threat to CDBG in Senate Border Security Bill.
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Fitch: WIFIA Loans Chip at Aging US Water Infrastructure Costs.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 08/10
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The Coming Backlash to ‘Greenwashing’ of Bonds.
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It Was a Great Year for America’s Pensions, but Many Are Still in Crisis.
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Why Cities Should Stop Fighting Big Banks and Create Their Own.
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Legal or Not, States Forge Ahead With 401(k)-for-Everyone Plans.
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The Week in Public Finance: Bankruptcy Looms in Hartford, Worries About the Sales Tax and Puerto Rico’s Many Defaults.
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P3 Digest, August 9, 2017
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S&P Default, Transition, and Recovery: 2016 U.S. Public Finance Higher Education And Nonprofit Organizations Default Study And Rating Transitions.
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Show Me the Money: Financing Public Facilities in the Age of Scarcity.
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GFOA Distinguished Budget Presentation Award – 2016 Results
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GFOA’s 12-Stage Financial Recovery Process: Recovery from Financial Distress and Fiscal First Aid.
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LA City Council Mulls Starting Municipal Bank to Help Cannabis Industry.
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Assured Guaranty Files Adversary Complaint Challenging PREPA’s Failure to Remit Special Revenue Bond Collateral For the Payment of its Bonds.
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New York Train Tunnel Project Hires Expert in Public-Private Finance.
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P3s Can Play an Important Role in Infrastructure Development: Black & Veatch
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Infrastructure Borrowing Drops as U.S. States Await Trump Plan Details.
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15 Creative Ways Large Real Estate & Infrastructure Developers Raise Millions Outside of Traditional Debt and Equity (Part I).
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S&P: For U.S. State And Local Governments, The Resilient But Shallow Expansion Complicates Budget Management.
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New EPA Tool Helps Communities Access More Than $10 Billion in Water Infrastructure Financing.
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KPM Weekly Rate Update.
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Municipal Market Snapshot.
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The Week in Public Finance: Tardy State Budgets, Philly’s Soda Tax Sputters and Raising the Debt Ceiling.
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Pension Plans Had a Great Year, But Retirees Likely Won’t Benefit From It.
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Money Lines Up for Public Infrastructure Assets But Faces Toll Gates.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 8/03
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Fitch: Closure of Nuclear Plant Limits Risks for US Public Power.
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Fitch: U.S. Public Finance Upgrades Outpaced Downgrades for 13th Consecutive Quarter.
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Fitch Focus on Munis: Public Pensions (States Use Financial Engineering to Lower Contributions).
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Investors Raise Bets Against Bond Insurers.
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MSRB Releases Second Quarter Muni Market Stats: Total Number of Trades Up Nearly 8% from Same Period One Year Ago.
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Why Fears About Muni Bonds are Unfounded.
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UBS On Its Own For Debt Bonds Defense, Insurers Say.
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Rising Costs, Declining Revenues Forcing Smaller Firms to Exit Municipal Finance Business, MUFG’s Head of Public Finance Says.
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Muni Defaults Are Down this Year, But Dollar Volume is Way Up.
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Ohio Hospital Deal Leads U.S. Municipal Bond Sales Next Week.
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Meet Your New Landlord: Wall Street.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 7/27
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Tobacco Bondholders Shrug Off FDA News While Cigarette Stocks Are Hit Hard.
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Reinvestment of EB-5 Funds in a New Project Can Maintain the “At-Risk” Requirement: Ballard Spahr
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Despite Federal Infrastructure Cuts, EPA’s WIFIA Water Loan Program Holds Promise.
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Second Quarter Municipal Market Statistics Show Active Trading in Puerto Rico Bond.
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Messer Co-Authors Bill to Reduce Infrastructure Costs for Local Governments.
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Municipal Market Indicators Now Available on EMMA.
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U.S. Infrastructure Renewal: Who Should Pay the Bill?
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Transportation Deals Lead $8.9 bln of U.S. Muni Sales Next Week.
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Denver Wants to Create an Office for Public-Private Partnerships, and City Council Fears Being Cut Out of the Process.
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Tobacco Bond Prices Weaker after U.S. Proposes Cigarette Nicotine Cut.
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CPS Buys Short-Term Relief with Bonds that will Carry Costs for Decades.
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Let’s Talk Municipal Finance – Municipal Lease Purchase Agreements.
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William Blair Exits Muni Bond Business.
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Fitch Releases U.S Public Finance and GIG Transition and Default Study.
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Fitch: “Healthy” Rest of 2017 Awaits U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Sector.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 7/20
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Washington Outsiders Learn Hard Way That Swamp Is Alive And Well.
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The Biggest Loser From Full Employment? Government.
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Local Governments Using a Software That Russia May Be Using for Espionage.
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States Get Creative on Pension Funding.
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The Week in Public Finance: Alaska Downgraded, Low Income-Tax Revenues and Congress Meddles in Online Sales Taxes Again.
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Back in the Black, Without the Feds to Thank.
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Municipal Market Snapshot.
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The Benefits of Private Financing for Public Works.
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New Public Finance Funding Sources Spark Transparency Concerns.
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Howard County Courthouse P3.
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INFRA Grant Program Encourages Use of P3s.
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U.S. Supreme Court Establishes New Test For Evaluating Property Rights Under The Takings Clause.
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Fitch: Illinois Legislation Gives Chicago New Financing Tool.
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Factories or Runways? Municipal Airports Face Economic Pressure.
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New York, Seattle Lead U.S. Muni Supply Next Week.
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Wells Fargo Lost ‘Tens of Millions’ in Muni and State Deals After Scandal.
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What Does a Rate Hike Mean for Muni Bonds?
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The Safe Haven of Bonds Made Riskier by ETFs.
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Privatization Is Changing America’s Relationship With Its Physical Stuff.
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Granof, Luby: P3s Won’t Fix Funding Gap that Ails U.S. Infrastructure Needs.
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‘Unshackled’ from Rating Agencies, MBIA Seems Ready to Return Capital to Shareholders.
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Congress Will Rethink Investing in Cities.
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U.S. Municipal Debt Sales Estimated at $8.26 bln Next Week.
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When the Trump Agenda Loses Steam, Muni Bonds Gain Momentum.
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Can Communities Finance Their Own Projects?
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Bipartisan Mayors to Call on Congress to Save Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) Ahead of Congressional Markup.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 07/13
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The Week in Public Finance: Lobbying Congress on the ‘Tax Perk,’ Chronic Deficits and the Credit Threat in Illinois.
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Management Strategies for an Era of Budget Uncertainty.
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About $330M Left in New Clean Renewable Energy Bond Program.
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P3 Digest: July 5, 2017
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KBRA Affirms AA+, Stable Outlook, for National Public Finance Guarantee and Releases Corresponding Surveillance Report.
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Unlocking Value from Public Assets: Leveraging Private-Sector Expertise to Generate New Public Benefits.
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Puerto Rico Insured.
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Monetizing Masterpieces in Detroit’s Bankruptcy.
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The Week in Public Finance: Late Budgets, Illinois’ First in Years and Risky Pension Investments.
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Restructured Federal Freight Grants to Offer ‘More Bang for the Buck.’
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Bill Would Lift Caps on PABs Used to Finance Water, Sewer Infrastructure.
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Free Interactive Course Simulates Decision-Making about Investing in Municipal Bonds.
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Goldman Leaps Into Ranks of Top Muni Underwriters With Big Sales.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 07/06
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Why Tolling is Often a Political Minefield.
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Fitch: Budget Wrangling Continues in Seven States.
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Ill-Funded Police Pensions Put Cities in a Bind.
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Fitch: US Senate Bill A Risk for Governments, Health Providers.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 06/29
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American Dream Mall Bonds Climb.
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The Week in Public Finance: Alaska Avoids Its Problems, More Health-Care Pain and Municipal Defaults Are Up.
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S&P: Typical U.S. Water and Sewer Utilities and the Margin Between High and Medium Investment Grade Ratings.
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Florida Train Developer May Switch Tracks on Federal Financing.
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KBRA Releases 1st Published Project Finance Rating.
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Moody’s: Government Default Trend Is Expanding.
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New House FAA Bill Text Released; Good News for County Priorities.
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NACo’s Analysis of Senate Health Proposal: Massive Costs for Counties.
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Municipal Debt Lures Yield-Hungry Investors in Second Quarter.
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Moody’s Places 6 Local Government Obligors On Review, Direction Uncertain.
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U.S. Municipal Bond Sales to Total Lowest This Year Next Week.
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Senate Health Bill Would Lower the Medicaid Per Capita Cap Rate, Causing Greater State Budget Shortfalls.
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Fitch: Falling US Public Power Capex Should Maintain Credit.
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Fitch: Senate AHCA Includes Medicaid Repeal and Replace Provisions for States.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Property Owners in Takings Case.
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Bloomberg Brief Weekly Video – 06/22
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Muni Hospital Bonds Resume Winning Run as Obamacare Repeal Lags.
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The $4 Trillion Pension Problem.
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Pension Crisis Won’t Be Reversed by High Returns, Moody’s Says.
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In Property Rights Case, U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Government.
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Uncertain of the Future, States Save and Save Some More.
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The Week in Public Finance: Bleak Pension Forecasts, Down on Stadium Debt and More.
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How States Can Make the Most of Their Rainy Day Funds.
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Commentary: With the Trump Administration, `Strategic Patience’ on Infrastructure May Be the Key.
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S&P: For Some U.S. State Budgets, Eleventh-Hour Negotiations Prevail.
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U.S. Municipal Sales to Sink to $7.56 bln Next Week.
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Australian Super Funds Open-Minded on US Infrastructure as Trump Plots $1 trl Spend.
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The Technical Case For Continuing To Love Municipal Bonds.
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KPM Weekly Rate Update.
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Municipal Market Snapshot.
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Social Finance Launches First Pay For Success Project Focused Exclusively on Workforce Development!
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Senators Aim to Stop Use of Municipal Funds to Finance Stadiums.
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Rieger Report: Muni Market’s Moot Reaction To Bond Insurers Credit Watch Negative.
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Trump Infrastructure Plan Envisions Greater Role For Public-Private Partnerships.
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Former GSA Head Reiterates Urgency for Scoring Reform.
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