Caitlin Devitt has covered the municipal bond market since 2008. She began her journalism career at the Herald Newspapers on the South Side of Chicago, starting as a reporter and rising to Managing Editor. While at The Bond Buyer, she covered the Detroit bankruptcy among other Midwest-based stories. Devitt joined Debtwire Municipals in 2016, where she covered the high-yield municipal bond market for five years, before returning to the Bond Buyer as Senior Infrastructure Reporter. She lives in Chicago with her family.
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Suzanne Shank cultivated a startup into the largest minority- and women-owned investment banking firm in the country.
October 31 -
The $53 billion Army Corps of Engineers plan is the largest of hundreds of coastal protection projects launched since Superstorm Sandy swamped the area in 2012.
October 28 -
American Rescue Plan Act dollars amounted to around 22% of states' annual general fund budgets, according to a court filing from a trio of southern states fighting ARPA's restriction on tax cuts.
October 26 -
As issuers push against a financial disclosure bill pending in the Senate, some buy-siders say standardized disclosure would attract more investors and boost liquidity.
October 25 -
Massive mutual fund selloffs this year have returned the market to a pre-1976 investor landscape, when portfolios focused on individual demand, said MMA's Tom Doe.
October 21 -
If the IRA's tax credits prove popular for building clean energy projects, they may be expanded into basic infrastructure financing, said University of Chicago professor Justin Marlowe.
October 20 -
Variable-rate debt, tender option bonds and even prepaid gas bonds may stage a comeback in the current market, panelists at a GFOA conference said.
October 20 -
Any new legislation should fit the "unique" nature of the municipal bond market, Sanchez said.
October 19 -
The Federal Highway Administration mandates would "commandeer" state department of transportation authority, opponents say.
October 18 -
States and locals need to move fast to capitalize on the value of upfront funding provided in the infrastructure law, Biden administration officials said.
October 14