During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists discuss how they successfully use Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and other pay for success methodologies to mobilize private capital to fund projects in underserved...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists provide an in-depth look at Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) bonds and how they’ve been used to finance the construction and rehabilitation of affordable...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists will explore the impact of federal tax policies, budget priorities, and political trends on the use and structure of PABs in financing critical public-private...

During the CDFA Advocacy Briefing: Preserve & Protect Tax-Exempt Bonds, experts discuss the threat to tax-exempt bonds and how you can get engaged to help preserve and protect this bedrock development finance tool.threat to tax-exempt bonds and how...

In this installment of the CDFA Food Systems Finance Webinar Series, we explore how food- and agriculture-related businesses—particularly those serving historically underserved communities—can access bonds to drive economic development and foster a...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists share their stories on how they utilized disaster recovery bonds to finance recovery efforts, restore infrastructure, and stimulate economic growth in affected...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists identify trends shaping national bond markets and explore the economic opportunities for local projects.

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, local practitioners present their Common Bond Reserve Fund program models to demonstrate the potential of this innovative pathway for increasing access to capital.

 During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists tap into the core principles of tax-exempt financing for manufacturers and 501(c)(3) organizations, covering key aspects such as eligible issuers, assets, and...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, speakers from various credit rating agencies discuss their rating criteria and methodology. The discussion also encompass factors influencing bond ratings, along with...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists provide an overview of these two new categories and illustrate how they might be better utilized in communities across the country.

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists discuss how social bonds can be used to provide low-interest loans to high-performing public charter schools to provide transformative educational opportunities...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists discuss ESG principles, how they have impacted the bond market, what role they play in the larger financial market, and where they see those impacts continuing...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists walk through the impact of rate hikes on yield and arbitrage and share best practices for managing these impacts.

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists unravel the multifaceted dimensions of AI's role in the municipal market, potential advantages and challenges that arise from embracing AI, and its...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists explore factors that contributed to the challenges these high-profile deals encountered and discuss best practices for development finance practitioners...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists discuss the importance of bond banks, explore their roles, and focus on how they help communities move forward.

During this installment of the CDFA Food Systems Finance Webinar Series, speakers explore the potential for leveraging this foundational financing tool to cultivate resilient and thriving local and regional food systems.

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists share how communities can use bonds in conjunction with tax increment financing, federal legislative programs, and other development financing tools for...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, panelists identify trends shaping national bond markets and discuss the economic opportunities to expect for local projects.

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, we explored economic insights for 2022, including the impacts of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, the state of the bond market, and an outlook on economic...

CDFA hosted this Legislative Briefing on September 22, 2021 to provide updates on the status of the infrastructure bill and next steps.

This webinar discussed how Bonds, Tax Increment Finance, Tax Credits as well as the litany of federal funding through recent legislation can work for your project and ultimately the community that is benefitting.

This FHWA webinar discusses how municipal bonds and debt can be used as a value capture strategy for highway-related projects. The webinar is intended for professionals from States, cities, counties, Tribes, and metropolitan and rural transportation...

This CDFA Legislative Briefing took place on June 16, 2021. We discussed the status of the infrastructure bill and CDFA's latest efforts on Capitol Hill. We also outlined important action items that you can take to ensure that bond financing...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Webcast Series, we explored the trend of CDFIs furthering their social impact investing goals by obtaining credit ratings to issue debt.

During this installment of the CDFA Food Systems Finance Webinar Series, we explored how investing in food-centered redevelopment can restore local food systems infrastructure, catalyze additional neighborhood development, and protect healthy,...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, we explored the economic recovery and how it will affect the bond market since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the final installment of this year’s CDFA-PFM Capital Markets Webinar Series, we talked about bond guarantee and credit enhancement programs and how they can be a solution for long-term recovery.

COVID-19 has highlighted the need for broadband and the gaps in broadband access. As part of our collaboration with Ice Miller, this video is designed to provide a review of the various approaches to expanding broadband access and how to assess...

During this installment of the CDFA-PFM Capital Markets Webinar Series, we gathered experts from the leading rating agencies for a timely discussion on ratings, long-term outlooks, and how municipal advisors determine the importance of rating deals.

CDFA released the final publication of the CDFA Food Finance White Paper Series, Advancing Local Food Systems Through Development Finance. This webinar provides an overview of this publication as we review CDFA's framework for expanding traditional...

During this installment of the CDFA-PFM Capital Markets Webinar Series, project finance experts and issuers discussed the viability of how private activity bond deals can fit into complex capital stacks.

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, we looked at how bonds act as a resilient economic driver by financing the critical facilities and infrastructure that stabilize local economies during and after...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, finance experts discussed the Municipal Liquidity Facility's requirements, market trends since the MLF's launch, and what can be done to make the MLF an attractive...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, we will showcase various childcare facilities financing programs from across the country and highlight projects that have successfully utilized these tools.

What should issuers, underwriters, and advisors know about working with their team of professionals to complete a bond deal during times of crisis? This interview-style discussion featured a round-robin of advisors divulging the capital markets...

During the first installment of the CDFA-PFM Capital Markets Webinar Series, we focused on the market impacts of COVID-19 through the start of June and what can be expected going forward.

During the May 15, 2020 Weekly COVID-19 Development Finance Briefing, three top bond issuers discussed how issuers are faring during the COVID-19 crisis, the state of issuers' portfolios, issuers' concern about default risk, and how issuing...

During the April 17, 2020 Weekly COVID-19 Development Finance Briefing, panelists discussed the latest movements in the capital markets. Speakers included Mike Decker with the Bond Dealers of America, Eric Kazatsky with Bloomberg Intelligence, Tom...

During the April 10, 2020 Weekly COVID-19 Development Finance Briefing, Bruce Katz from Drexel University, Rachel Reilly from the Economic Innovation Group, and Katie Kramer from CDFA examined relief efforts run by local governments, philanthropic...

During this Legislative Briefing, we discussed the latest information about the next stimulus act (Phase 4) from Congress and the urgent actions development finance agencies should take. We examined legislative reactions to the CARES Act, what we...

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast, hear from our experts as they dive into the data, examine the trends, and offer a preview of the bond market in 2020.

The annual CDFA Volume Cap report is an essential outline of national private activity bond issuance trends and is used by issuers, researchers, trade groups, and political offices to understand the private activity bond landscape. During this...

As the bond market changes, bond issuers must work diligently to keep their fee structures up to date. During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, we looked beyond the fee structures and broke down the...

In the second Quarterly Legislative Update of 2019, CDFA's Legislative Team discussed progress on pending CDFA legislation, other pending development finance legislation such as extenders, as well as what to expect from Congress in the coming months.

During this installment of the CDFA // BNY Mellon Webcast Series, expert speakers from CAI Global, Baltimore Development Corporation, Arlington Economic Development, and VEDP provided an in-depth overview of the approaches being used by cities,...

During this webinar, Bethany Pugh, Managing Director at PFM, Todd Fraizer, Managing Director at PFM, Austin McGuan, Director, Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Matthew Eisel, Managing Director at PFM, and Robert McCarthy, Partner with Bricker & Eckler LLP...

During this webinar, Bethany Pugh, Managing Director with PFM, Robert Novembre, CEO & Founder of Clarity Market Holdings, Lindsey Brannon, Head of Finance at Neighborly, and Gregg Bienstock, CEO & Co-Founder of Lumesis discussed how emerging...

In this first quarter installment of the CDFA Quarterly Legislative Update, CDFA's Legislative Team provides an update on what we can expect from Congress in 2019, an overview of the 2019 CDFA Policy Agenda and a briefing on our recent conversations...