Time To Stop The End-Arounds In Muni Market Regulation

Law360, New York (May 4, 2016, 5:45 PM EDT) -- The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board issued a concept release last month suggesting that market transparency trumps the direct congressional prohibition against federal regulations requiring filing of information by (or by broker-dealers, from) municipal issuers (the "Tower Amendment"). The concept release is just the latest in administrative "end-arounds" attempting to resolve the tension between Congress' stated goals for the municipal markets and its prohibition upon the direct regulation of municipal issuers....

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