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The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bond trustee said the Oversight Board’s proposed plan of adjustment breaches the bonds’ trust agreement. “There is a fundamental clash between the duties of bondholders to each other in the trust agreement and the three bondholder [plan support agreements (PSAs)] in the plan,” said bond trustee U.S. Bank N.A.

Financial woes at the University of Arizona led Moody’s Investors Service on Monday to revise the outlook on the school’s Aa2 system revenue bond rating to negative from stable. The rating agency pointed to a structural imbalance and uncertainty over the pace of operating performance improvements, along with continued integration risk related to the university’s

Capital Markets Advisors and its two principals Richard Ganci and Richard Tortora, municipal advisors to the City of Rochester, New York have been denied their motion for dismissal in the ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit against them. The charges were leveled as part of a group of actions against the City of Rochester, its

The primary market was the focus Tuesday, as several large deals priced to strong reception, led by an upsized pricing of $1.4 billion from the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority. Municipals were little changed in secondary trading, underperforming U.S. Treasuries, while equities were down near the close, as all markets await Federal Reserve

The city of Dolton, Illinois, in south Cook County, shares a boundary with Harvey. It also appears to share a level of financial turmoil that brings basic city operations under court scrutiny. It’s been two years since Dolton made public an audited annual financial report. But an annual treasurer’s report for 2023 shared with The

New York City finance officials appeared before the City Council Monday to discuss the mayor’s fiscal 2025 preliminary budget. Testimony centered around the $109.4 billion preliminary budget that Mayor Eric Adams proposed in January, which is balanced as required by law, and includes a near-record $8.2 billion in reserves, including $1.2 billion in general reserve, $4.8 billion in the Retiree Health Benefits

Nearly seven years after the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority went into bankruptcy, the restructuring entered its potential final stage with arguments over the proposed plan of adjustment’s legality and assumptions. In a separate PREPA development, the Puerto Rico Oversight Board approved a municipal bond restructuring for PREPA’s private power supplier AES Puerto Rico, which

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is gearing the industry up for two meetings aimed at addressing the now discarded 2024 rate card fee model. The board recently announced these meetings, the first of which will gather four trade associations and focus on the comments received, market projections and fee volatility as part of the board’s

Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. Transcription:Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio for the authoritative record. Mike Scarchilli (00:00):Hi everyone and welcome to the Bond Buyer Podcast. I’m Mike Scarchilli, Editor-In-Chief of

Professional sports-hungry Utah is hoping to entice baseball and hockey to come to Salt Lake City with bills state lawmakers passed last week that authorize bond issuance for stadiums. House Bill 562 allows up to $900 million in financing to cover half the cost of a Major League Baseball stadium within a Fairpark Area Investment