With new regulations going taking effect June 7, 2017, Squire Patton Boggs gives insight on the methods for determining the issue price and how the hold-the-offering-price method may come at a cost to issuers of tax-advantaged bonds.

WIFIA received an additional $8 million for credit subsidy through passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017. The additional funding, combined with the $17 million appropriated in December 2016, will allow the WIFIA program to lend approximately $1.5 billion for water infrastructure projects

The U.S. Small Business Administration has announced that the federal government reached its small business federal contracting goal for the fourth consecutive year, awarding 24.34 percent in federal contract dollars to small businesses totaling $99.96 billion, an increase of over $9 billion from the previous year.

P3 Kentucky, a new communications hub, will help inform and connect Kentucky's local and state leaders who are considering public-private partnerships to solve pressing needs for water and sewer improvements, economic development projects and other public infrastructure investments.

UK-based Responsible Finance has issued a report that examines in depth three high-impact local finance partnerships, and considers how their model can be adopted and scaled to comprehensively tackle the challenges of financial exclusion.

One of the top priorities for both President Donald Trump and the 115th Congress includes promoting greater infrastructure spending and investment, and both have suggested a federal infrastructure tax credit (FITC) in some form as a powerful mechanism to do so.

This video by JacKlink Productions tells a story on how tax increment financing is used to help attract new businesses, help expand existing companies, grow the manufacturing industry and act as a catalyst for development in the Carroll County, IN area.

The Municipal Bonds for America coalition is urging members of the House Ways and Means Committee to support tax-exempt bonds, including private activity bonds.

Comprehensive federal tax reform presents issuers with a lot of uncertainty about whether tax-exempt municipal bonds will remain untouched, something the GFOA wants its members to take to social media about with photos of important bond-financed projects and using the hashtag #builtbybonds.

June 8, 2017 - Salina, Kansas
Join the CDFA Oklahoma/Kansas Financing Roundtable for a special one-day conference hosted at Kansas State. This event will feature a number of economic development finance experts from around the state discussing development finance tools, authorities, resources and approaches, and how these can affect the Oklahoma/Kansas economy going forward.

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, our experts will discuss financing structures that communities are deploying to fund infrastructure improvements.

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, our expert speakers will discuss new and innovative uses for special assessments and how this tool is poised for greater use nationwide.

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