Today In The Markets

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has issued a request for comment on Rule A-12 and Form A-12 on registration, seeking input from the market on draft amendments that would gather more information on the associated persons of bank dealers. The board is hoping to gather this information from bank dealers and eventually display such information

The Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy has appointed six new members to its board of advisors.  “We’ve intended to expand the board for a while now, mostly because we wanted to be sure that we were representing the full range of perspectives from across the industry,”

Kentucky officials are still struggling with how to handle a troubled internet network project nine years after bonds to fund it were sold. Analysts say the KentuckyWired project has lessons on how public-private partnerships should be structured. The political wrangling in-state stands in contrast to rating agencies, who since September have issued the bonds an