Spring 2013
May 14, 2013
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel testifies before the U.S. Senate’s Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on returning private capital to mortgage
markets
May 2, 2013
Russ Wermer’s research on mutual funds is mentioned in the Wall Street Journal’s
Stocks in Bond Funds: Good Idea?
May 1, 2013
CFP Asset Management and Market Design research track lead Pete Kyle quoted in
the Wall Street Journal’s High-Speed Traders Exploit Loophole
April 10, 2013
Executive-in-Residence and Tyser Teaching Fellow Cliff Rossi provides testimony
before the United States House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Housing and
Insurance Of the Committee on Financial Services on FHA reform
March 29, 2013
C-SPAN Covers CFP’s
Congressional Briefing with Aaron Klein
February 28, 2013
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel testifies before the U.S. Senate’s Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on FHA’s financial condition and program
challenges
January 10, 2013
Russ Wermers, Associate Professor of Finance, wins the Investment Management
Consultants Association's academic paper competition for “Monitoring Daily Hedge
Fund Performance When Only Monthly Data is Available.”
January 5, 2013
CFP Director Lemma Senbet delivers a keynote address at the 25th anniversary
celebration of African Finance and Economic Association, ASSA Conference, San
Diego, January 5, 2013.
Download presentation
Fall 2012
November 28, 2012
Center for Financial Policy and
Mutual Fund Directors Forum Partner to Present Oversight of Alternative
Investments Roundtable
November 13, 2012
Center for Financial Policy Organizes MS
Finance Visit to IMF Headquarters
November 8, 2012
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel quoted in New York Times Article For Obama,
Housing Policy Presents Second-Term Headaches
November 5, 2012
CFP’s work with policy organizations in DC is highlighted in the FT’s A place on
Capitol Hill
October 26, 2012
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel speaks on Fox Business about third-quarter
GDP and the economic recovery
October 18, 2012
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel to co-chair new Financial Regulatory Reform
Initiative
October 8, 2012
Mike Faulkender, associate professor of finance, comments on pay benchmaking in
Agenda, Financial Times’ newsletter for corporate directors
September 27, 2012
CFP Executive-in-Residence Bill Longbrake is quoted in National Journal’s
“Election Economics: All How You Look at It”
September 16, 2012
CFP is mentioned in the Financial Times as a part of the Smith School’s efforts
to promote practical change
August 13, 2012
Tadias Magazine interviews CFP Director Lemma Senbet about his appointment as
Executive Director of the AERC
August 2012
CFP Director Lemma Senbet to Head
Top African Economic Development Research Organization
Summer 2012 [+/-]
Spring 2012 [+/-]
April 27, 2012
CFP Academic Fellow Phill Swagel speaks about US GDP and the economic outlook on
Bloomberg 
May 21, 2012
Russ Wermers, Associate Professor of Finance, quoted in Wall Street Journal’s
“Computer Trading Takes Human Turn”
April 26, 2012
Bloomberg News cites Finance Professor Michael Faulkender’s research on peer
benchmarking for CEO compensation in “CEOs Earn More Than They Would Without
U.S. Boards Showing Bias”
April 18, 2012
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel’s “Taking On the Notion of 'Too Big To Fail'”
featured on RealClearMarkets.com
April 17, 2012
Center for Financial Policy and IMF
co-host “Policy Roundtable on the Future of Financial Regulation”
April 6, 2012
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel quoted in Bloomberg's Bernanke Warning on
Jobs Vindicated by March Payrolls Report
March 14, 2012
Smith Finance Professor Pete Kyle quoted on NPR’s Morning Edition, Major Banks
Pass Fed's Recession Test
March 12, 2012
Bruce Richards, Multi-billion Dollar
Hedge Fund Manager, Speaks at Smith
March 11, 2012
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel quoted in the International Business Times:
As Jobs Reports Show Growth, Economists Present Divergent Visions of the
Recovery's Future; Is Washington Listening?
February 29, 2012
Former Hill Staffer Courtney
Geduldig Speaks at CFP’s Congressional Briefing Series
February 17, 2012
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel quoted in Bloomberg’s Lehman Crisis Veterans
Warn Europe Leaders Against Provoking Greek Default
February 9, 2012
CFP Academic
Fellow Phillip Swagel testifies before the Senate Banking Committee, “State of
the Housing Market: Removing Barriers to Economic Recovery”
February 8, 2012
Eric Billings, CFP Advisory Board Member and Chairman and CEO, Arlington Asset
Investment Corporation speaks to finance undergraduate students in College Park
February 3, 2012
Smith Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi joins Fox 5 in DC to discuss the latest
mortgage rate drop
February 2, 2012
Smith School Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi featured in Bloomberg’s article:
Obama Vows to Cut Lender Red Tape Stymieing Homeowner Borrowing: Mortgages
January 30, 2012
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel quoted in Reuters’ article: Obama's housing
plan draws fire, impact seen small
January 22, 2012
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel co-authors op-ed on Bloomberg.com: Put Fannie
and Freddie on Federal Books
January 17, 2012
Cliff Rossi, Tyser
Teaching Fellow and Smith School Executive-in-Residence, featured on C-SPAN
commenting about the new Federal Reserve report outlining ways to stabilize the
U.S. housing market
January 13, 2012
David Kass, Tyser Teaching Fellow at the University of Maryland’s Smith School
of Business, authors recent blog on Warren Buffett: Berkshire's 700 Million BAC
Warrants Have Been Ignored By Many, But They're Currently Worth $3.2 Billion
January 11, 2012
Swagel quoted in The New York Times article, For Europe, Few Options in a
Vicious Cycle of Debt
Fall 2011
[+/-]
December 14, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel quoted in Bloomberg’s IMF Seeks Funds for
European Debt Crisis as U.S. Stands Back
December 14, 2011
Finance Professor Pete Kyle quoted in The Financial Times, High stakes over
definition of high frequency trading
December 13, 2011
Smith School Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi co-authored op-ed in
AmericanBanker.com, What Homeland Security Can Teach Office of Financial
Research
December 10, 2011
Swagel’s testimony mentioned in The New York Times, The Fattest or the Fittest?
December 7, 2011
Swagel testifies at Senate Hearing on Too-Big-To-Fail
December 6, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip
Swagel quoted in the EU Observer’s US agency issues eurozone ultimatum
December 5, 2011
Swagel quoted on the S&P euro warning in The San Francisco Chronicle
December 3, 2011
CFP Executive-in-Residence William Longbrake featured in Seattle’s Kitsap Sun,
Legislative sessions likely to reignite talk of tax exemptions
November 30, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel comments in The Globe and Mail on the
coordinated effort by central banks in response to the European debt crisis
November 28, 2011
Swagel quoted in Bloomberg, Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion
November 22, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel featured in National Review’s Peter Coy on
the Future of the Mortgage Market
November 22, 2011
Smith Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi quoted in Bloomberg’s AIG
Mortgage-Guarantee Unit to Offer Concessions Under Refinancing Program
November 20, 2011
Swagel quoted in The Globe and Mail’s No deal in sight on U.S. budget cuts
November 17, 2011
Maryland Finance Professor Russ Wermers’ research on investment managers
mentioned in Reuters’ Analysis: Bill Miller's fall shows luck at play in
investing
November 16, 2011
CFP Director Lemma Senbet chairs
Corporate Finance session of the 22nd Annual Conference on Financial Economics
and Accounting hosted by Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business |
Download the agenda
November 16, 2011
Rossi quoted in Wall Street Journal’s Lawmakers Target Fannie, Freddie Pay
November 14, 2011
Dawn Alley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of
Medicine, discusses the public health implications of the mortgage crisis
Read the news article on her research
November 13, 2011
Smith
Executive-in-Resident Cliff Rossi quoted in CNN.com’s Lawmakers aim to block
bonus pay at Fannie and Freddie
November 11, 2011
David Sicilia, CFP’s Henry Kaufman Fellow in Business History, recounts “A brief
history of U.S. unemployment” in The Washington Post
November 2, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phil Swagel featured in Bloomberg’s Obama May Have Little
Influence on Outcome of G-20 Meeting, Analysts Say
November 2, 2011
CFP Executive-in-Residence Bill Longbrake joins Fox 5 to discuss the Greek Debt
Crisis and the recent proposed referendum |
Watch his interview with Michelle Lui, Assistant Director of CFP
November 1, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phil Swagel quoted in The Globe and Mail, G20’s European
rescue ability weakens
October 26, 2011
Cliff Rossi, Executive-in-Residence at Smith, quoted in Bloomberg.com’s Hedge
Funds Face Double Exposure
October 22, 2011
CFP
Director Lemma Senbet addresses the 72nd International Atlantic Economic
Conference in Washington DC | Download
Presentation 
October 20, 2011
Bill Longbrake shares his perspectives on the Durbin Amendment with
NerdWallet.com.
October 19, 2011
CFP Executive-in-Residence Bill Longbrake quoted in the National Journal’s
Huntsman Tries to Define Himself as Anti-Big Bank
October 18, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phil Swagel writes about Fannie and Freddie in the latest
edition of The Milken Institute Review
October 16, 2011
Smith School Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi featured in Baltimore Sun’s Q&A:
Why bank reforms lead to bank fees
October 14, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phil Swagel quoted in Wall Street Journal’s Plan Floated to
Spread Risk in Mortgage Bonds
October 8, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel featured in the Chicago Tribune, Banks,
including 10 in Illinois, tardy with TARP payments
October 4-5, 2011
Finance Professor Michael Faulkender discusses executive compensation on PBS
Newshour
Watch the video now |
Read The Washington Post article citing his research
September 29, 2011
CFP Executive-in-Residence Bill Longbrake quoted in National Journal’s Can
Policymakers 'Fix' the Banking System and Foster Economic Growth?
September 26, 2011
CFP’s October conference on Systemic Risk and Data Issues gets media attention
CNBC.com |
MarketWatch.com |
YahooNews.com |
Reuters
September 26, 2011
Sarah
Bloom Raskin, Governor on the Federal Reserve board, speaks at CFP Distinguished
Speaker Series, receives high profile media interest
Watch the C-SPAN video
|
Read the transcript
Featured Press Coverage:
Wall Street Journal |
Bloomberg |
The Hill |
CNN Money |
Reuters | CNBC
September 26, 2011
Smith School Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi shares his financial outlook
with Fox News
September 19, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel appeared on PBS News Hour with host Gwen
Ifill and Robert Greenstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
September 18, 2011
Smith School Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi quoted in The Baltimore Sun’s
Bank of America upheaval an opportunity for local competitors
September 9, 2011
CFP hosts the Oversight of Derivatives Roundtable, Myron Scholes
Keynotes
September 12, 2011
Phil Swagel comments on Geithner’s trip to Poland
September 11, 2011
Swagel quoted in MoneyNews.com’s Study: Corporate Taxes Are Higher Than
Most Think
September 9, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phil Swagel quoted in The Globe and Mail’s Housing
still a conundrum in Obama bid to fire up economy
September 8, 2011
Phil Swagel, CFP Academic Fellow, talks to Robert Siegel of NPR’s All
Things Considered after President Obama’s Jobs Speech
August 29, 2011
Phillip Swagel writes about the housing refinance proposal on The Hill’s
Congress Blog
August 26, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel discusses Bernanke’s Jackson
Hole speech in Bloomberg Interview |
Watch the video now
August 16, 2011
Bill Longbrake quoted in American Banker’s Bankers Seek a Rebate as
FDIC Rebounds
August 12, 2011
CFP
Executive-in-Residence Bill Longbrake comments on the European financial crisis
in the Associated Press article, This Time, US Fears a Financial Crisis
From Abroad
August 10, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel quoted in CNNMoney’s Can Washington
handle 'too big to fail'?
August 9, 2011
Phillip Swagel interviewed on American Public Media’s Marketplace about
the Fed’s decision to hold rates steady for two years
August 8, 2011
Cliff Rossi, Executive-in-Residence at the Smith School of Business, quoted on
Bloomberg.com: S&P Lowers Fannie, Freddie Citing Reliance on Government
August 5, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel quotes in the Associated Press article:
Europe Crisis Revives '08 Fears But Risks Are Less
Summer 2011
[+/-]
July 25, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel speaks about the U.S. debt ceiling debate
on Bloomberg
July 22, 2011
CFP Asset Management and Market Design Track Lead, Pete Kyle, contributes to
NPRs Debt's Impact Could Be Worse If Interest Rates Rise
July 17, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel writes a column, Will Free-Marketeers
Save Fannie and Freddie?, on Bloomberg
July 12, 2011
Executive-in-Residence Bill Longbrake quoted in the Bryan Ellis Real
Estate Letter’s Sheila Bair Retires, Blames Real Estate for Financial
Crisis
July 9, 2011
Finance faculty member David Kass comments on Warren Buffet’s remarks about
capital requirements and reduced leverage in Bloomberg’s Buffett Says
Banks Are ‘Plenty Profitable’ After Leverage Cut
July 6, 2011
Phillip Swagel, Center for Financial Policy Academic Fellow, comments on a
new proposal in Reuters's US lawmaker to propose new mortgage
finance entity
July 5, 2011
Bill Longbrake, Executive-in-Residence at the Center for Financial Policy,
quoted in National Journal on MSNBCs Exits abound on
Obama's economic bench
June 24, 2011
CFP Director Lemma Senbet comments on executive compensation in The
Gazette’s CEO compensation dwarfs median worker’s salary
June 4, 2011
Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi quoted in Wall Street Journal’s Why It's
Time To Buy
June 3, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel quoted in The Hill’s Bernanke
faces a crucial decision as economy teeters
May 25, 2011
PRMIA publishes an article, “Risk-Adjusted Performance: Lessons from the Financial
Crisis” by Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi in its quarterly newsletter
Intelligent
Risk
Spring
2011 [+/-]
May 18, 2011
Executive-in-Residence Bill Longbrake comments on investments of FLHBs in
American Banker’s Investment Boom Stokes Fears FHLBs Have Gone Off
Mission
May 16, 2011
CFP Academic Fellow Phillip Swagel quoted in Fox Business News’s U.S.
Hits Debt Limit, Sky Doesn't Fall
May 6, 2011
Bill Longbrake, Executive-in-Residence at the Center for Financial
Policy, talks to Michelle Lui, CFP's Assistant Director, about his analysis
of the April 2011 employment report and his outlook for economic recovery
Watch the short video
|
Watch the full April/May 2011 interview
May 5, 2011
CFP Faculty Associate Professor Albert “Pete” Kyle spoke at the Flash Crash
Conference: One Year Later, conducted several interviews after the conference
Financial Times: Critics question real-time reporting proposal
MarketWatch.com: SEC still lacks tools to prevent ‘flash crashes’
CNBC.com: Flash crash questions linger
a year after plunge
May 3, 2011
CFP Faculty Associates Respond to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Incentive-Based
Compensation Arrangement signed by Ethan Cohen-Cole, Michael Faulkender, Nagpurnanand
Prabhala, Lemma Senbet and Haluk Ünal.
Read the letter
May 2, 2011
Cliff Rossi quoted in HousingWire's Mortgage servicing is too light on technology,
MBA panel says
April 25, 2011
Executive-in-Residence
Cliff Rossi quoted in American Banker’s Deadline Looms Over Campaign
to Delay Durbin
April 21, 2011
Center for
Financial Policy and PRMIA Team-Up to Host Risk Management Leaders in NYC
April 15, 2011
Phillip Swagel, Faculty Associate of the Center for Financial Policy and International
Economics Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy,
shares his thoughts on the debt ceiling debate and corporate tax loopholes during
two TV interviews.
Fox Business News – The Potential Consequences of Hitting the Debt
Ceiling
CNBC - Is big business paying its fair share?
April 11, 2011
Frank Medina
highlights CFP’s first Congressional Briefing Series
April 11, 2011
Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi quoted in Gazette.Net’s Unexpected ‘uptick'
encourages agents, sellers in housing market
April 7, 2011
Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi quoted in American Banker’s Bite
the Bullet: Waiting and Hoping Won't Cure What Ails Housing
April 6, 2011
Professor Vojislav Maksimovic’s study, Formal versus Informal Finance: Evidence
from China, featured in the Spring 2011 edition of Smith Business Magazine
|
Download the study
April 5, 2011
Executive-in-Residence
Bill Longbrake talks to Michelle Lui, CFP's Assistant Director, about the April
8 budget deadline, debt ceiling, and 2012 budget in this month’s interview
April 4, 2011
Bill Longbrake joins the Kojo Nnamdi show for the segment “No Relief
for Homeowners” to share his thoughts on the government programs intended to
help homeowners.
Listen to the show now
April 1, 2011
Executive-in-Residence
Cliff Rossi quoted in American Banker’s Regulators Ready Enforcement
Orders Against Servicers as State AG Talks Stall
April 1, 2011
David Kass,
Professor of Finance, discusses David Sokol's resignation from Berkshire Hathaway
Inc. and corporate governance at the company on Bloomberg TV
March 30, 2011
Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi interviewed for Bloomberg’s Securitization
Skin-in-the-Game Rules Permit Hedging Stakes
March 29, 2011
Cliff Rossi
to present a PRMIA webinar on April 4th on Mortgage Backed Securitization &
GSE Reform
March 27, 2011
Associate Professor of Finance Russ Wermers’ research of the relationship between
performance and governance structure of U.S. equity funds featured in Baltimore
Sun
March 21, 2011
Executive-in-Residence Bill Longbrake quoted in American Banker’s Is GOP Push
to Subject CFPB to Appropriations Hypocritical?
March 18, 2011
Haluk Unal offers comments at the Core and Brokered Deposits Roundtable hosted
by the FDIC
Read the transcript |
Watch the video
March 18, 2011
Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi and University of Maryland School of Public
Policy Professor Phillip L. Swagel quoted in American Banker's Lack of Leadership
Prolongs Mortgage Settlement Talks
March 16, 2011
Cliff Rossi to speak on Sungard Ambit webcast, The Changing Financial Landscape:
Lessons Learned, Impact of Financial Reform, and Hot Topics Surrounding Risk
and Corporate Governance
March 11, 2011
Haluk Unal, Financial Institutions & Consumer Finance Track Lead and Professor
of Finance, has been invited to participate at the Core and Brokered Deposits
Roundtable hosted by the FDIC on March 18, 2011
Read the Press
Release
View the
Agenda
List
of Participants
March 10, 2011
Rossi comments on the battle between retailers and banks in Bloomberg’s Big
Retailers, Banks Try to Sway Congress on Debit-Card Fees
March 9, 2011
Center
for Financial Policy Hosts Systemic Risk Data Issues Forum
March 9, 2011
Rossi quoted in Reuters’ article: Analysis: Boomtime mortgage execs
gear up for U.S. market shift
March 7, 2011
Executive-in-Residence
Cliff Rossi conducted analysis for the NABE March 2011 Economic Policy Survey:
NABE Panel Concerned About Rising Fiscal Budget Deficits and Eager to See Federal
Spending Curbed |
Download
Full Survey
March 4, 2011
Cliff Rossi comments on measures to kill foreclosure prevention programs in
American Banker’s article, While Mostly Futile, Votes to End Mod Programs Are
Symbolic
March 3
Cliff Rossi highlights
three Risk Management events in March
March 1
Longbrake
Comments on U.S. Public Debt Imbalance, Government Shut-down
February 17, 2011
Bill Longbrake comments in American Banker’s Regulators to Hit Largest
Mortgage Servicers with Enforcement Orders; Fines Likely
February 11, 2011
CFP Advisory Board member Michael L. Middleton discusses Sen. Durbin’s provision
in Dodd-Frank that sets limits on swipe fees that retailers pay institutions
to process debit-card payments
February 10, 2011
American Banker quotes Bill Longbrake for “White House’s GSE Plan Narrows
the Gap with GOP”
February 9, 2011
American Banker highlights Bill Longbrake in “Hamp, Widely Scorned,
Looks Likely to Run Its Course”
February 8, 2011
Rossi quoted in Reuters article, Obama housing plan would hike mortgage
costs: sources
February 3, 2011
Reuters article – “Analysis: Minus RMBS, U.S. mortgage investors on
new path” – features Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi
January 31, 2011
Cliff Rossi quoted in American Banker’s Crisis Laid Bare Banks' Weaknesses
at Processing Information
January 29, 2011
Finance Professor Michael Faulkender quoted in Wall Street Journal's
The Intelligent Investor: A Chance to Veto a CEO's Bonus
January 25, 2011
CFP Executive-In-Residence Bill Longbrake quoted in American Banker’s
Source: Administration Holds GSE Plan Again, Shoots for Next Month
January 13, 2011
The Financial Services Roundtable Publishes Newest Cluff Fund Study Prepared
by Cliff Rossi, Decomposing the Impact of Brokered Deposits on Bank Failure:
Theory and Practice
January 7-9, 2011
Professors Lemma Senbet, Anton Korinek, Mark Loewenstein and more discussed
International Financial Markets, other topics at 2011 AFA Annual Meeting
January 3, 2011
MD Bankers Program Highlighted in the Washington Post, “Smith School
to walk bank directors through Dodd-Frank rules”
December 21, 2010
FierceFinance.com highlights Cliff Rossi’s 2011 Housing Industry Outlook
Fall 2010
[+/-]
December 16, 2010
American Banker’s How Fannie, Freddie Can Be a Force for Good in
Servicing Market features CFP Executive-in-Residence Cliff Rossi
December 15, 2010
Smith School’s
Center for Financial Policy Teams with PRMIA to Host Inaugural Chief Risk
Officer Speaker Series
December 13, 2010
Maryland Bankers Board Director Education Program highlighted in
The Washington Post,
Baltimore Business Journal, and
Gazette.net.
December 13, 2010
Cliff Rossi quoted in American Banker article on standardizing
mortgage foreclosure process, commenting on Fed Govenor Tarullo's remarks
to Congress.
December 10, 2010
Rossi’s A Way Forward on the Housing Crisis highlighted in DSnews.com,
an industry-focused magazine on mortgage default and servicing.
December 9, 2010
American Banker features Rossi’s A Way Forward on the Housing Crisis
report.
December 7, 2010
Univ.
of Maryland’s Smith School of Business (Center for Financial Policy) and
Maryland Bankers Association to Offer Program for Community Bank Board Members
December 1, 2010
Professor Albert “Pete” Kyle quoted in The Christian Science Monitor’s
Federal Reserve's 'astounding' report: We loaned banks trillions.
November 29, 2010
Sen.
Jack Reed Highlights the Smith School and Pew Financial Reform Project at
Reception
November 19, 2010
Bill Longbrake, Executive-In-Residence, will be spotlighted at the University
of Washington’s Leaders to Legends Breakfast Lecture Series on January 19,
2011
November 17, 2010
Institutional Investor’s Bold Ideas Needed For Rebuilding Mortgage Finance
features Cliff Rossi, Executive-in-Residence
November 12-13, 2010
Smith
School Hosts 21st Annual Conference on Financial Economics &
Accounting
Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes Keynotes
November 12, 2010
Rossi quoted in the Baltimore Business Journal: “We’re seeing an
extraordinarily tough credit crunch where banks are reluctant to expand
credit because they’re afraid things are going to get worse.”
November 11, 2010
Rossi quoted in the Washington Post: Foreclosure mess prompts growing
number of public officials to slow down process
November 10, 2010
Cliff Rossi quoted Wall Street Journal, Mortgage Lenders Set Back
in Courts. "Over the long run, the foreclosure process could take a few
weeks longer as a result of changes made by mortgage companies"
November 8, 2010
Ethan Cohen-Cole participated in the panel discussion “Measurement of Systemic
Risk: 21st Century Regulation and Oversight” at FDIC and PRMIA’s Systemic
Risk Supervision: Recognizing the Next Bubble
Oct 28 & Oct 29, 2010
Cliff Rossi quoted in American Banker articles:
Mortgage Mess Sparks Call for Federal Foreclosure Standards
Foreclosure Mess Another Systemic Failure to Spot Trouble
October 21, 2010
CFP Director
Lemma Senbet sits on Corporate Governance: Lessons from the Crisis panel
at the Annual Meeting of Financial Management Association in New York
October 19, 2010
Cliff Rossi on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
Read the Transcript.
November 12-13, 2010
Smith School to Host
21st Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting (CFEA)
Nobel Laureate Myron
Scholes to Keynote
November 9, 2010
Cliff Rossi to Speak at Washington College: "A Crisis of Leadership: Lessons
from the Financial Meltdown"
October 28-29, 2010
Finance Professors Haluk Ünal (Conference Organizer) and Pete Kyle (Session
Chair and Discussant) will participate at the 10th Annual Bank Research
Conference Agenda Finance and Sustainable Growth sponsored by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation's Center for Financial Research and the
Journal of Financial Services Research.
October 20, 2010
Cliff Rossi quoted on CNNMoney.com - Foreclosure mess: Fake signatures
and lavish gifts.
October 20, 2010
Speaking about the recent Foreclosures Scandal, Cliff Rossi attributed the
document failures to the same "herd mentality" that caused lenders to underwrite
"no doc low doc" loans in the first place: American Banker - Sloppy Foreclosure
Paperwork May Lead To Litigation Against Bank Execs.
Executive-in-Residence Bill Longbrake discusses the currency wars, income
inequality and stagnation, and why stocks and bonds are both rallying in
his latest edition of the Longbrake Letter.
Cliff Rossi quoted in the Washington Post - Speed took precedence
in foreclosures.
Cliff Rossi quoted in BusinessWeek article: Washington Resists
Calls for Big Fix in Foreclosure Crisis.
October 15, 2010
Cliff Rossi quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek on "Washington Resists
Calls for Big Fix on Foreclosures"
[Foreclosure Briefing PDF]
October 12, 2010
Albert “Pete”
Kyle featured in Reuters article about the ‘Flash Crash’ study,
Study Casts Doubt on Fast Traders' 'Raison d'Etre.'
October 11, 2010
Cliff Rossi participates in a panel discussion on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on
American University Radio – “Turmoil in the World of Foreclosures.”
October 6, 2010
Distinguished Speaker Series Features Dr. Henry Kaufman on "Continuing Economic
and Financial Uncertainties"
September 17, 2010
Center for Financial Policy Executive-in-Residence William Longbrake featured
in Baltimore Business Journal’s Lehman Bros.’ fall still dogging
some of Baltimore's largest stocks
September 15, 2010
Center for Financial
Policy's Cliff Rossi Discusses the New Financial Risk Agency on CSPAN
Bloomberg Businessweek, September 2, 2010: Cliff Rossi Weighs in
on the "The Treasury's New Research Office
Reuters, August 25, 2010: "Boards live on as Ameriprise cuts fund lineup"
Featuring Russ Wermers
August
2010: "Our Perspectives: Commentary on the economy & regulatory policies
affecting financial companies" Featuring Bill Longbrake
Summer 2010
[+/-]
Spring 2010
[+/-]
Baltimore Business Journal April 30, 2010 features Lemma Senbet:
"TARP regs force Baltimore-area banks to offer shareholders say on execs’
pay"
Voice of America, March 30, 2010: Increased Inter-Regional Cooperation
Will Lessen Future Economic Shocks in Africa, Says Lemma Senbet
Experts Join in D.C. to Discuss the U.S. Mortgage Market
American Banker, June 4, 2010 "I Was a Boom-Age Risk Manager" Featuring
Cliff Rossi
NEWS RELEASE: May 28, 2010
Study
Examines Industry Risk Management Practices That Contributed to Housing
Crisis
Wall Street Journal, May 27: A long period of strong economic growth
and rapidly rising house prices pushed defaults down to unusually low levels
and created a "mirage" of adequate risk management, according to the study
by Clifford Rossi, a former banker who is now a finance professor at the
Smith School.
Cliff
Rossi to Keynote AMBIT RISK & PERFORMANCE CLIENT SUMMIT - JUNE 14 - 17,
2010
MAY 24th SPRING ROUNDTABLE: "Revitalizing the U.S. Mortgage Market" with
Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics in D.C.
Robert Pozen Discusses His New Book at the Distinguished Speaker Series
Fall 2009
[+/-]
