LONDON, U.K., March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading global data analytics provider, is pleased to announce an agreement with Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F). As part of the agreement, Verisk can offer standardised, insurance-ready telematics data from connected Ford vehicles in Europe to assist insurers with assessing driving behaviour, developing usage-based insurance [...]
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK), a leading global data analytics provider, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Verisk Financial Services, its financial services business unit, to TransUnion (NYSE: TRU), a global information and insights company, for $515 million in cash consideration paid at [...]
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK), a leading global data analytics provider, today announced that Scott G. Stephenson, Chairman, President and CEO of Verisk, will be retiring from the company following Verisk’s 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting. The Verisk Board of Directors has named Lee M. Shavel, currently CFO of Verisk [...]
LONDON, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Verisk Maplecroft, a global risk analytics business of Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), has launched new Sovereign ESG Ratings to provide investors with the most comprehensive picture available of ESG risks and opportunities across the entire current and potential sovereign issuer universe. The Ratings, which extend Verisk Maplecroft’s growing presence as a [...]
HYDERABAD, INDIA, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading global data analytics provider Verisk (NASDAQ: VRSK) has been Great Place to Work-Certified™ in India for the second year in a row. Based on employee feedback, the certification honors Verisk for its outstanding workplace culture. Verisk’s certification is driven by an employee engagement survey which measured the [...]
EDINBURGH/LONDON/WESTMINSTER, Colo., Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Wood Mackenzie, Inc. a Verisk business (NASDAQ:VRSK), and Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) announced today that they have signed an agreement between the two organisations to accelerate the development of advanced analytics for energy markets. The collaboration will bring together data from the world’s largest private network of in-field monitors – owned [...]
BOSTON, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Extreme event modeling firm AIR Worldwide updated its insured loss estimates for Hurricane Ida after analyzing the inland flood impacts across the entirety of its track, including the Northeast. AIR now estimates that Ida’s insured industry losses will range from USD 20 billion to USD 30 billion. AIR estimates [...]
BOSTON, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Extreme event modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that industry insured losses to onshore property resulting from Hurricane Ida’s winds and storm surge will range from USD 17 billion to USD 25 billion. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. AIR’s modeled insured loss estimates include insured physical damage to property (residential, commercial, industrial, auto), both structures [...]
LONDON/HOUSTON/SINGAPORE, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — This year will prove pivotal for the energy sector. But as the world regroups from the Covid-19 pandemic, the challenge of limiting the impact of climate change has been brought into sharp relief and will be taken up in earnest at the COP26 summit in Glasgow this November. Ahead [...]
BOSTON, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Extreme event modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates insured losses in Germany from July flooding could approach EUR 5 billion. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. Low pressure system “Bernd” parked itself over central Europe and brought about significant flooding from July 13 to 18. Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate and North [...]