ACORD standards develop over time by taking account of members’ feedback, based on their experience of implementing the standard’s specifications.
ACORD may publish up to two new releases of their existing standards a year, depending on members’ demand.
However, there has been latency—especially by early adopters—in moving on to a newer version of the standard. Up to [...]

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You’ll notice ACORD is a recurring theme in my blogs and this is not just a coincidence. We are moving to an electronic world and the ACORD standard, which supports the use of structured data, is at the heart of this.

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Little more than five months after signing the contract to create the Lloyd’s Exchange the market sent its first live placement message over the Lloyd’s Exchange on Tuesday. The message was sent by Miller to Aspen Re.
The significance of this event is that it validates the statements made about the Exchange and satisfies the market’s expectations that it [...]

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Lloyd’s is a global marketplace: it’s licensed to underwrite business in 79 territories and can accept risks from over 200 countries and territories. Like many international organisations working in multiple regulatory environments, Lloyd’s needs to adhere to the rules of each.
In other words, local tax authorities and industry regulators need to know about any and [...]

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You might be asking yourself ‘what’s a Londonism?’
Simply put, a Londonism is a difference in the way that business is processed in London compared to other markets, such as Bermuda, the US and Continental Europe.
In 2008 Market Operations, supported by the Market Reform Office, started work on a project to analyse Londonisms, trying to capture [...]

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The fact that the IBM technology underpinning the Lloyd’s Exchange had been tried and tested (and is fully operational in another insurance market) instilled confidence in the project team that technology wouldn’t be an obstacle to delivering the Lloyd’s Exchange to the market.
This confidence was well placed. Phase 1 of the pilot is now drawing [...]

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It’s not unusual to see assertions made about the benefits of products and services that don’t tally with the reality. 
That’s not the case with the Lloyd’s Exchange. To borrow a line from a popular TV ad: Lloyd’s Exchange: ‘Does what it says on the tin’.
Many of you in Operations will have already been notified that [...]

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The short answer is: yes.
The long answer? Like any global business, the London Market must continually enhance process efficiency to remain competitive. We do pride ourselves on our long traditions but we’re not likely to use a quill in a digital age.
Process change is necessary to ensure efficient and flexible working with multiple markets across [...]

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Firstly, thanks to Jerry for his comment on my blog.  It’s good to see that people are reading them, but even better to see there’s interest in how we are progressing with the Lloyd’s Exchange.
It’s been a busy few weeks, the first three of our quarterly test phases have been fully subscribed by managing agents [...]

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After weeks of speculation and perhaps the worst kept secret in insurance the cat is finally out of the bag. On Tuesday of this week we announced that IBM had been chosen to develop the pilot for the Lloyd’s Exchange.
The response to this news has been overwhelmingly positive and hopefully the ‘son of Kinnect’ labels [...]

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