Rice Financial Products Company is a full service municipal investment banking firm. We specialize in the development and implementation of traditional bond and derivative-based transactions to meet the increasingly complex financial needs of state and local government issuers. Our clients include many of the largest municipal issuers in the nation. The firm, along with its professionals, is widely recognized as a leader in the structuring of innovative, cutting-edge financial products for the public sector.

RFPC serves as direct principal and counterparty on all of its interest rate swap transactions. We use proprietary financial and risk management systems to manage the more than $20 billion of swaps that the firm has executed since its founding. As a direct market participant, we offer the highest level of insight and expertise into the derivative markets.

RFPC’s professionals rank among the most experienced and talented in the municipal finance industry. They all bring with them a wealth of knowledge about municipal finance gained during extremely successful careers at larger firms. We provide our clients an unsurpassed level of focused, value-added service—in fact every one of the firm’s transactions is uniquely structured to address each of our client’s specific goals and needs, risk tolerance and the overall financing environment.

At RFPC we take a comprehensive approach to debt management, blending municipal bond and derivative-based financing concepts to create the optimal financing structures for our clients. Our clients rank among the largest and most sophisticated municipal issuers, and most of the firm’s financings resulted from unsolicited proposal from RFPC. Many of our transactions have been particularly noteworthy or represented firsts for the municipal market. RFPC’s financings include providing the financing for the Raiders professional football franchise to return to Oakland, California—the first swap to finance a stadium; and the largest municipal interest rate swap done in 2000, to refinance the $400 million Performing Arts Center currently being built in Miami, Florida.