The Council of Development Finance Agencies has partnered with Frost Brown Todd and its affiliate FBT Project Finance Advisors on the new CDFA Intro Infrastructure Finance WebCourse and the CDFA Finance Toolbox video series. This collaboration will focus on financial challenges and opportunities facing communities working to develop or upgrade energy, water, broadband, disaster recovery, transportation, and other services, and provide expert analyses to inform the development finance industry.

The NMTC Coalition just released its 2020 NMTC Progress Report. In 2019, NMTC financing helped make 288 projects possible, and CDEs used $2.7 billion in NMTC allocation to deliver $4.5 billion in total project investment to low-income communities.

The SBA, in consultation with the Treasury Department, today announced it was releasing detailed loan-level data regarding the loans made under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This disclosure covers each of the 4.9 million PPP loans that have been made through July 6, 2020.

The American Infrastructure Bonds Act of 2020 would create a new class of "direct-pay" taxable municipal bonds to help struggling governments finance critical public projects in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The senators' proposed bonds would improve upon the model of Build America Bonds that were issued after the 2008 financial crisis to attract more investment in public infrastructure.

The prestigious insider listing of who's who in the Opportunity Zone industry – the Top 25 OZ Influencers – has been released in the latest edition of Opportunity Zone Magazine. The annual tribute showcases the industry's leading and most influential OZ professionals, who inspire and lead through their vision and innovative accomplishments.

A pair of community developers, CHN Housing Partners, and Eden, Inc., will team up with the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to launch an $18 million rental assistance program funded by community block grants and the CARES Act.

The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) has selected six businesses for its new Opportunity Zone Capital Accelerator Program. OEDIT partnered with the Colorado Center for Innovation for Community Capital in early May to create the new program.

Economic analysis predicts that Aggie Square at the UC Davis Sacramento campus will add nearly $5 billion to the Sacramento region's economy each year and support 25,000 ongoing jobs.

CDFA Federal Financing Webinar Series: Federal Recovery Resources from the EPA
July 17, 2020 - 1:00 PM Eastern

CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series: Financing Small Business Recovery After COVID-19
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 1:00 PM Eastern

CDFA Food Systems Finance Webinar Series: Neighborhood Revitalization Through Food Systems Finance
Thursday, July 30, 2020 - 2:00 PM Eastern

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Cultivating Development explores the mutually beneficial relationship between food-based amenities—such as working farms, community gardens, food halls, restaurants, and grocery stores—and real estate. Developers, owners, property managers, designers, investors, and others involved in real estate decision making can learn from the research, case studies, and food and development practitioner insights described in this report, thereby allowing them to create places that both support and leverage investments in food.

The SBA, in consultation with the Treasury Department, released detailed loan-level data regarding the loans made under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This disclosure covers each of the 4.9 million PPP loans that have been made through July 6, 2020. Click here to be redirected to the online data repository.

PricingDirect, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co, recently joined the list of companies that deploy these innovative techniques, specifically Machine Learning (ML). Leveraging J.P. Morgan's strengths in the application of ML within its businesses, PricingDirect pioneered a municipal bond pricing model that highlights the combined benefits of human and machine.

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