Bond Finance Reference Guide...
About the Bond Finance Reference Guide
The Bond Finance Reference Guide provides readers with a thorough understanding of the different types of bonds, key players in a bond transaction, strategies and techniques in structuring, sizing, and closing bonds, the process of issuing bonds, securities law basics, and additional legal issues.
This Bond Finance Reference Guide serves as a complimentary text for CDFA’s Intro and Advanced Bond Finance Training Courses, which deliver the premier bond finance education in the development finance industry.
Chapter 1: Understanding Bond Finance
Covering: Governmental Bonds, Private Activity Bonds, Key Players, Bond Ratings, and How Bonds Are Sold
Chapter 2: Bond and Tax Basics
Covering: Governmental Bonds, Private Activity Bonds, Privatization, Other Private Activity Bond Requirements, and Tax Law and Bonds
Chapter 3: Key Players
Covering: Bond Issuer, Bond Counsel, Underwriter, Underwriter Counsel, Disclosure Counsel, Trustee, Municipal Advisor, and Rating Agency
Chapter 4: Types of Bonds
Covering: Small Issue Tax-Exempt Bond Financing, Qualified 501(c)(3) Revenue Bonds, and Exempt Facilities Bonds
Chapter 5: Arbitrage Basics
Covering: General Concept of Arbitrage, Yield on the Bonds and Investments, Yield Restriction, Purpose Investment vs. Non-Purpose Investment, Replacement Proceeds, and Arbitrage Rebate
Chapter 6: Structuring and Sizing Bonds
Covering: Bond Structuring, Legal and Statutory Constraints, Sources of Repayments, Security Provisions, Principal Amortization Options, Interest Rate Structures, and Taxable Bonds
Chapter 7: How Bonds are Sold
Covering: Methods of Sale, Role of the Municipal Advisor, Negotiations, Yield Relationships, and Competitive Sale
Chapter 8: Securities Law Basics
Covering: Federal Securities Laws, MSRB Rules, and State Securities Laws
Chapter 9: Bond Ratings and Credit Analysis
Covering: Significance of Ratings, Bond Rating Criteria, and Bond Rating Scales
Chapter 10: Credit Enhancement
Covering: Credit Enhancement or Substitution
Chapter 11: Investing Bond Proceeds
Covering: Tax Code Limitations, Rating Agency Requirements, and Investment Vehicles
Chapter 12: Interest Rate Hedging
Covering: Interest Rate Swaps, Consideration and Risks, and Interest Rate Options
Chapter 13: The Closing
Covering: Participants and Their Roles and the Closing Process
Chapter 14: Post-Issuance Compliance
Covering: Post-Issuance Compliance in General
Case Studies
Case studies on Small Issue Bonds and 501(c)(3) Bonds
Glossary of Terms
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