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Investing: Texas Agency Bars Bank From Underwriting Syndicate
October 11, 2022Texas Natural Gas Securitization Finance Corp., a state public authority, announced that it had excluded a financial advisor from the underwriting syndicate of a $3.4 billion municipal bond transaction. The underwriters on the deal were initially approved in May. However, UBS Group, along with nine other financial institutions, was included on a list of “Financial Companies that boycott energy companies.” The Comptroller claimed that there was a “lack of transparency” and “use of doublespeak” by the companies and that they were acting differently behind closed doors when compared to their “anti-oil and gas rhetoric” in public.
