Connor Hussey is a reporter for the Bond Buyer. Before settling on municipal securities, he covered many facets of the finance industry, including private equity for Private Equity International and Private
Funds CFO, as well as tax for the International Tax Review and financial law for the International Financial Law Review. He has a B.A. in Economics and English Literature from the University of Maine.
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Without admitting or denying the findings, Luther Speight and his firm Luther Speight and Company agreed to pay civil penalties of $20,000 and $10,000, respectively.
October 3 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's FY 2024 budget represents a 4.8% increase over the prior fiscal year.
October 2 -
The draft amendments seek to retire 40 pieces of interpretive guidance related to interdealer confirmations.
September 29 -
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board heads into its new fiscal year focused on market regulation, improving data for the muni market, and updating its EMMA technology platform.
September 29 -
The firm, without admitting or denying the findings, agreed to pay a $60,000 civil penalty.
September 26 -
The bill is expected to pass this week in a move that would open the flood gates for banks and financial institutions to involve themselves legally in the banking of cannabis profits.
September 25 -
The website now shows Bloomberg's yield curve with hourly updates between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. The move changes EMMA's usual practice of displaying yield curve data from the day before.
September 20 -
The GOP stopgap funding measure may only kick the can down the road for a month, but how this bill passes will have implications for how Congress feels about additional spending measures.
September 18 -
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied Treasury's motion for en banc review following its January panel decision that rendered the American Rescue Plan Act's Offset Provision "unconstitutionally unascertainable."
September 15 -
The amendments exempt those who've already qualified as a municipal advisor representative from retaking the Series 50 exam.
September 13