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Byline: Nora Colomer DALLAS -- The Ohio Air Quality Development Authority plans to sell $210 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds to help Pratt Paper LLC build a mill to recycle [...]

Byline: Kyle Glazier PHOENIX - A new paper from the National Association of Bond Lawyers aims to help bond lawyers navigate the increasingly popular bank loan and private placement landscape [...]

Byline: Jeremy Quittner Banks have struggled for years to get their customers to accept account statements electronically. But even among those who have succeeded in such efforts, paper use has [...]

Despite three defaults this month, the commercial paper market remains stable, experts say -- largely because of a decades-old ratings system. Commercial paper, short-term IOUs issued by the highest-quality companies [...]

Byline: Shelly Sigo A Louisville, Kentucky, sewer district is launching a $500 million tax-exempt commercial paper program to save money and finance repairs as part of its adjustment to a [...]

Byline: Paul Burton Brookings Institution has extended its deadline for proposals for its sixth annual municipal finance conference to March 6. Organizers are seeking proposals for a broad variety of [...]

Byline: Bryan Yurcan Insurance carriers are still largely using paper-based payments processes, and some banks see an opportunity to speed up their disbursements and settlements as part of a larger [...]

Byline: Nora Colomer The Ohio Higher Educational Facility Commission will issue $105 million of tax-exempt revenue bonds next week on behalf of Case Western Reserve University to refund all of [...]

Byline: Paul Burton WASHINGTON -- A paper by two New York University professors on the effect of transparency on debt costs won the capital prize at the sixth annual Brookings [...]

State Street Corp.'s stock price declined Tuesday after a British newspaper reported it has significant exposure to asset-backed commercial paper conduits, which have caused problems for European banks. The Boston [...]

Byline: Steven Sloan The Federal Reserve Board announced new details Tuesday on its plan to buy unlimited amounts of commercial paper to prop up the credit markets. The central bank [...]

Byline: Kyle Glazier WASHINGTON -- The National Federation of Municipal Analysts released a paper on best practices in disclosure for bank loans, an opaque segment of the municipal debt market [...]

Byline: Yvette Shields CHICAGO -- Illinois budget watchdog groups are skeptical over whether the $38.5 billion fiscal 2019 state budget that passed Thursday is truly 'balanced' as lawmakers contend. 'Passing [...]

Byline: Christine Albano Texas and Florida municipal bonds should weather the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma without any credit weakness in the short term, according to buy-side analysts, who [...]

Byline: Cheyenne Hopkins The Federal Reserve Board agreed Tuesday to buy an unlimited amount of commercial paper directly from cash-strapped companies, and rather than criticize it for becoming the lender [...]

Byline: Aaron Weitzman Billions of dollars of new paper hit on the market on Thursday, as yields fell for the first time this week on speculation that some municipal exemptions [...]

Byline: Yvette Shields CHICAGO -- Illinois held spread penalties in check as enticing yields lured buyers to its $1.5 billion general obligation issue Tuesday. The sale -- divided into three [...]

Byline: Aaron Weitzman Primary municipal bond market volume is expected to increase to $6.7 billion in the coming week, with a variety of deals, including triple-A rated paper from Maryland. [...]

Byline: John Heltman WASHINGTON -- Two reports issued Thursday by the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Research suggest regulators have not considered all the potential risks from central swaps clearing [...]

Byline: Mary Wisniewski Banks have struggled for years to get customers to accept electronic statements rather than printed statements. But while banks have convinced some people to receive statements or [...]

WASHINGTON -- The National Federation of Municipal Analysts issued a draft white paper yesterday calling for improvements in bond insurers' financial disclosures - an especially timely paper as a number [...]

Byline: Steven Sloan WASHINGTON - By its third day of operation, a Federal Reserve Board program to buy unlimited amounts of commercial paper totaled $144.7 billion. The program, called the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- As it prices up to $20 million of a $100 million commercial paper program tomorrow, central California's Turlock Irrigation District is about to review proposals from alternative [...]

Byline: Yvette Shields CHICAGO -- The municipal bond market is more attracted to Chicago Public Schools yields than it is worried about the district's fiscal future. That's the evidence displayed [...]

Byline: Aaron Weitzman Coming off the biggest volume week of the year, municipals are ready for another steady batch of issuance. Although a second straight week of volume greater than [...]

Byline: Steven Sloan The Federal Reserve Board said its purchases of commercial paper increased 67.9% from a week earlier, to more than $243.1 billion as of Wednesday. The increase is [...]

A paper company and the Internal Revenue Service have reached an agreement that closes the audit of $42.1 million in tax-exempt solid waste recycling bonds issued by the Gulf Coast [...]

Byline: John Adams More than a decade after electronic bill presentment debuted, half the country still gets paper statements by mail. But the big tech firms that power electronic billing [...]

Shelby County, Tenn., will sell $27 million of extendible municipal commercial paper next week, marking the third time the county has sold such debt to finance its capital outlay program. [...]

Byline: Jennifer DePaul WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service's Tax Exempt Bond Office published an educational paper summarizing processes to help issuers comply with federal tax law requirements and the [...]

Byline: Nora Colomer DALLAS -- Oaklawn Hospital in Calhoun County, Michigan plans to convert its variable rate paper to fixed-rate debt in an upcoming $74 million hospital revenue bond refunding. [...]

Byline: Naomi Jagoda WASHINGTON -The authors of a new paper from The Hamilton Project at Brookings propose four short-term and three long-term ways to address the need for infrastructure investment [...]

In a nod to environmentalists and in an effort to cut costs, Bank of America Corp. said it has adopted policies to reduce the amount of paper it uses, increase [...]

Investors want greater diversity in terms of liquidity credit providers, and they want larger spreads on extendible commercial paper versus generic commercial paper to whet their appetites and to increase [...]

Byline: Steven Sloan WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve Board's purchases of commercial paper increased 5.7% during the past week, to $256.9 billion on Wednesday. Total lending through the Fed's discount [...]

Byline: Daniel Wolfe For years bankers have had only modest success getting customers to drop paper statements, so some are introducing accounts that are managed almost exclusively online and do [...]

The National Federation of Municipal Analysts issued a final white paper on project financings Friday that is applicable to many sectors of the municipal market and is intended to be [...]

Byline: Ted Needleman Tax season is just not fun. It seems like it's going to go on forever, and the seemingly endless days and evenings at work drain the energy [...]

Accountants should be obsessive about paper. For decades, how efficiently an accounting firm filed, routed, and retrieved stored paper differentiated successful firms from their toughest competitors. While the importance of [...]

Byline: John Adams Before discussing the bank's plans to exorcise paper, Washington Trust's Jim Brockett rips traditional attempts at paper avoidance to shreds. 'If you're trying simply to reduce paper [...]

Byline: Kyle Glazier WASHINGTON -- The Bond Dealers of America released a paper prepared by Nixon Peabody LLP that aims to explain to issuers how their relationships with the brokers [...]

Liberty Paper Inc., a Minnesota solid waste company that built a recycling facility with $46.8 million in private-activity bonds, has reached a settlement with the Internal Revenue Service's appeals office [...]

Foreward: During October 1997, the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson issued a so-called 'White Paper' addressed to the newly formed Independence Standards Board. My commentary, 'White [...]

WASHINGTON - Municipal issuers are pushing to be included in the Federal Reserve's program to buy commercial paper, which the Fed has hinted will not include municipalities under its current [...]

WASHINGTON -- The National Federation of Municipal Analysts has issued a final paper recommending disclosure practices for water and sewer financings that is unchanged from a draft that was released [...]

Federal banking agencies have given banks another quarter of relief from some of the burdens of new accounting for asset-backed commercial-paper programs while they consider a long-term solution. When the [...]

Byline: Joseph Kellard Receiving Wide Coverage ... Panama Papers: The Australian Tax Office will investigate some 800 wealthy clients of a Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca, after a leak of [...]

The National Federation of Municipal Analysts yesterday issued its final paper recommending language for hospital bond legal documents designed to ensure that bondholders suffer as few losses as possible if [...]

Byline: Yvette Shields CHICAGO -- Investors squeezed a more modest penalty out of Chicago on a recent $419 million wastewater revenue bond deal than they have demanded on its general [...]

Byline: Jack Casey WASHINGTON -- The National Federation of Municipal Analysts has released the final version of its recommended set of best disclosure practices for state government general obligation bonds. [...]