Dr. Clifford Rossi is a Tyser Teaching Fellow and executive-in-residence in the finance department at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Rossi writes a weekly column for American Banker called "Risk Doctor."
December
Financial System's Risk Navigator Still Has Blind Spots
December 23, 2013
Will Volcker End Up Another Example of Knee-Jerk Regulation?
December 9, 2013
Overlooked in Housing Reform Debate: Risk of Lender Concentration
December 4, 2013
November
Conflicting Mortgage Rules Prolong Reign of the GSEs
November 25, 2013
New Liquidity Rules Will Put a Drag on Mortgage Finance
November 11, 2013
Beware When Risks Collide
November 4, 2013
October
Long-Term Viability in Mortgage Market Hinges on Reps-and-Warrants Overhaul
October 22, 2013
A U.S. Default Is the Ultimate Systemic Risk
October 11, 2013
Combine FHA with New Mortgage Agency to Avoid Another Bailout
October 7, 2013
September
How Online Home-Price Estimators Distort the Market
September 30, 2013
Alchemy of Bank Loan Loss Reserving Remains Under FASB Proposal
Septmeber 23, 2013
JPMorgan Should Have Gone Further to Retool Risk Governance
September 16, 2013
Dodd-Frank Rules Provide Limited Protection for Mortgage Investors
September 5, 2013
August
Let FHA Worry About Meeting Affordable Housing Needs
August 27, 2013
Banks Get a C+ in Postcrisis Risk Management
August 21, 2013
Mortgage Markets Will Pay Price for CFPB’s Contradictory Policies
August 16, 2013
How Community Banks Can Come Back Strong in the Mortgage BusinessAugust 7, 2013
Sobering Lessons from Freddie Mac's Risk-Sharing Deal
August 5, 2013
July
Fox Morning News: Interview on the Detroit Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing and its broader implications
July 23, 2013
Congress Reminds Us Whats Wrong with Housing Reform Process
July 23, 2012
Banks Model Risk Worse than Ever, Thanks to Basel III
July 11, 2013
Federal Home Loan Banks Fortunes May Be on the Rise
July 8, 2013
June
So Much Could Go Wrong with Corker-Warner GSE Bill
June 25, 2013
Did Corker-Warner Jump the Gun on 'Skin in the Game' Target?
June 20, 2013
Financial Systems Guardians Give Cyberattacks Short Shrift
June 13, 2013
Fox News: Obama still failing as CEO of USA, Inc.
June 11, 2013
Time to Reverse Course on Reverse Mortgages
June 6, 2013
May
A Lesson for U.S. Housing Reformers from Across the Pond
May 29, 2013
Guess What? Basel III Oversimplifies
May 21, 2013
The Best Chance for a Stable Mortgage Market
May 15, 2013
Banks Forced to Use Shortsighted Accounting
May 2, 2013
April
Fix Credit Ratings Process Ahead of GSE Reform
April 26, 2013
FDIC Should Charge Banks for Lax Risk Management
April 19, 2013
Let the FHA Charge for Risk, Like Fannie and Freddie Do
April 11, 2013
March
Basel's Treatment of GSE Securities Threatens Housing Recovery
March 27, 2013
Banking Needs Less Regulation, More Risk Governance
March 20, 2013
The Unsung Virtues of Mortgage Credit Enhancements
March 12, 2013
C-SPAN: Future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
March 9, 2013
February
Act Now to Wean Multifamily Lending Off GSE Support
February 25, 2013
Raising FHA's Game
February 25, 2013
Mortgage Underwriting Is Trapped in a Box
February 6, 2013
January
Break the Megabanks' Stranglehold on Mortgage Servicing
January 30, 2013
Maryland Morning: No-Doc No More?
January 22, 2012
GSE Reform Needn't Wait for Congress
January 18, 2013
QM Cements the Sorry State of Mortgages for Years to Come
January 11, 2013
How to Bring Private Capital Back to Mortgages
January 3, 2013
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