After an exceptionally challenging 2022, this report details the public finance industry's views of risks and opportunities. In this survey, Bond Buyer tapped into the collective wisdom of business leaders across the municipal finance sector to predict what trends they think will be shaping their industry and informing their business strategies for 2023 and beyond.
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Highlights include:
- The top industry challenges -- rising interest rates, confidence in markets/volatility and loss of business or revenues.
- Concerns about interest rates and plans to manage these concerns.
- Expectations for municipal bond volumes, which have dropped considerably.
- Impact to municipal credit, which many expect to be negatively affected for at least 2023.
- The role of e-trading, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the municipal securities market in the future.