All the headlines from our ACORD Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 8 2026 // “Sustainable value creators” among the 100 largest property/casualty insurance carriers generated more than twice as much of their value through underwriting than through investment activities over a 20-year...
Dec 11 2025 // The insurance industry data standards organization ACORD announced today that University of Connecticut graduate student Manasa Ramaka has won the ACORD Student Challenge 2025, a national competition that asks university...
Oct 27 2025 // New York City’s St. John’s University is partnering with ACORD, the standards-setting body for the insurance industry, to offer virtual or in-person learning to employees of organizations that are members of...
Oct 24 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Aon and ACORD Solutions Group.A summary of these new hires follows here. Insurance broker Aon plc announced the appointments of Andrew Secker as EMEA chief...
Sep 26 2025 // ACORD announced that Chris Newman has been appointed chief executive officer of ACORD Solutions Group (ASG).Newman has led (re)insurance company operations across both the retail and specialty markets, including setting up...
Mar 13 2025 // ACORD Solutions Group, a provider of digital solutions for the global insurance industry, announced the launch of the ADEPT Bermuda Regional Hub. As part of the data exchange hub’s launch, ACORD Solutions Group will...
Sep 7 2023 // 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...
Dec 22 2022 // 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...
Sep 29 2021 // 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...
Mar 17 2021 // March 17, 2021, Austin, TX – The National Alliance released a new online, self-paced ACORD form training as part of a new insurance bootcamp series. The new ACORD Bootcamp trains insurance agents on how to properly...
Sep 10 2020 // 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...
Dec 2 2019 // 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” — those that succeed at both, not only growing but...
Nov 25 2019 // 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...
Nov 25 2019 // 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...
Nov 24 2019 // More from ACORD’s recent study, “Intelligent Growth: Intent, Decisions, Outcomes.” Of the 200 carriers, 73 were called waning carriers. These are carriers that have inferior combined ratios or return on...
Nov 24 2019 // 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”—those that succeed at both, not only growing but also...
Nov 24 2019 // 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...
Sep 16 2019 // 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...
Jun 17 2019 // 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...
Aug 17 2018 // ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, has launched an Adoption Toolkit to support the application of data standards for global reinsurance and large commercial risks in the London market.“The...