UMD Smith Appoints Former BECU CRO John Stewart to Lead the Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium
The Smith School has named John Stewart director and executive-in-residence of the Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium. The former BECU chief risk officer will expand industry partnerships, practitioner training and applied analytics while strengthening collaboration among faculty, students and risk professionals.
Smith Expert Gives Market, Risk Implications of Stalled Bipartisan Housing Bill
Clifford Rossi, professor of the practice and director of the Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium at the Smith School of Business, said restricting large institutional investors would do little to improve housing affordability, arguing supply shortages and homeowners locked into low mortgage rates remain the market's primary constraints.
As the US-Iran conflict mostly settles into a fragile truce, the digital battlefield may continue heating up even as the kinetic one cools. Join us as we sit down with leading cybersecurity professionals to break down the Iran-nexus threat landscape — who's targeting what, where the real exposure lies, and how to think about cyber risk in a time of war.
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Smith Students Turn Cutting-Edge Analytics into Real-World Financial Insight
With spring semester past midpoint, University of Maryland Smith School students are completing experiential and capstone projects with industry partners, applying AI and data analysis to financial market questions, producing research on mortgage risk, banking trends and private credit exposure.
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SERC Launches Dashboard to Analyze Natural Hazard Risk to Bank Branches
The Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium (SERC) at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has launched a Natural Hazard Bank Branch Analyzer in another educational project involving Master of Finance students. This interactive dashboard is designed for banks—whether large institutions like JPMorgan Chase or small community banks—to understand how natural disasters such as floods, storms or heatwaves could affect their assets and branch locations.
Interactive Natural Hazard Risk Dashboard for Mortgages Now Live via UMD's Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium
The Smith School launched the Mortgage Natural Hazard Analyzer, a Tableau-based tool developed by Clifford Rossi and Master of Quantitative Finance students to assess U.S. homeowners’ mortgage risk from 18 climate-related hazards, providing policymakers, lenders, and insurers with interactive, data-driven insights to inform decisions nationwide.
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Maryland’s Top Cybersecurity Official Joins Smith’s CRO Risk Summit
The state of Maryland’s top cybersecurity official, James Saunders, joined a panel discussion on cyber risk at the Robert H. Smith School of Business’ SERC CRO Risk Summit, hosted by the Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium (SERC) on Sept. 18, 2025. The invite-only event brought together some of the region’s top risk professionals to network and discuss the latest strategies and future challenges in risk management.