ACORD News

ACORD Releases Data Messaging Standard to Support London-Market Modernization

ACORD, the standards-setting body for the global insurance industry, announced the publication of the ACORD GRLC Contract, Risk, and Pre-Accounting (CRP) Implementation Toolkit, a new data messaging standard to facilitate the efficient exchange of insurance data. The CRP Standard was …

ACORD Study Highlights Drivers of High Performance Among Top U.S. Insurers

ACORD recently conducted the U.S. Value Creators Study focused on the 100 largest property/casualty insurance groups in the U.S., representing nearly 90% of premiums written and almost 100% of the industry’s market capitalization – $9.1 trillion over the 20 years …

ACORD Releases Re/Insurance Data Standards for Electronic Placing

ACORD, the standards-setting body for the global insurance industry, announced the expansion of its Global Reinsurance & Large Commercial (GRLC) Data Standards, to include new standards for electronic placing. Re/insurers will be able to leverage these newly developed standards in …

ACORD’s Innovation Tools Experiencing Soaring Reinsurance Demand

ACORD, the standard setting body for the global insurance industry, is experiencing a massive jump in global reinsurance and other industry interest in its digital products and services, CEO Bill Pieroni said. The increase comes as reinsurers and carriers, already …

Why E&S Carriers Aren’t Winners Over the Long Term

ACORD’s recent study, “Intelligent Growth: Intent, Decisions, Outcomes,” reveals that E&S/specialty companies don’t fare well over the long term. Here, CEO Bill Pieroni suggests possible reasons in an interview with Wells Media’s Andrew Simpson. Q: You talked about the winners …

Confessions of a Diehard Insurance Data Fan: Part 2

After Bill Pieroni, the CEO of ACORD, delivered a presentation about ACORD’s latest study, “Intelligent Growth: Intent, Decisions, Outcomes,” he sat down with Wells Media’s Andrew Simpson to talk about winning carrier strategies. Pieroni, who discussed carrier growth and profit …

How ‘Intelligent’ Insurers Grow and Create Value: ACORD Study

Some insurance carriers grow but do not create value. Others shrink but still create value. Some fail at both. Then there are the “intelligent growers”β€”those that succeed at both, not only growing but also creating value. Intelligent growersβ€” that’s the …

Confessions of a Diehard Fan of Insurance Data: Part 1

If Bill Pieroni were a Major League Baseball executive, he would be one of those sabermetric types like Oakland’s Billy Beane, heralded by the book “Moneyball.” His team’s manager would have spreadsheets on an iPad, and his team would use …

Electronic Marketplace AkinovA Donates Data Assets to ACORD for Industry Standards

AkinovA, the independent electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of re/insurance risk, has donated key insurance linked security (ILS) data assets to ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the re/insurance industry,. The donated assets include data definitions and collection …

ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge’s European Winner Is Riskbook

ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, has announced that Riskbook was the winner of the London semi-final round of the ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge (AIIC), with RITA and Optimiz.Claims named as runners up. Riskbook is focusing on …