25.09.02 - Wildnet Group, the market leading e-commerce services provider to the insurance and reinsurance industry, has joined ACORD - the global insurance standards body to participate in defining e-commerce standards for the international insurance and reinsurance sector. Wildnet’s membership will ensure its involvement at the forefront of defining and evolving e-commerce standards within the industry.

Wildnet's aim is to contribute to, and support, ACORD's groundbreaking efforts to continue to develop and deploy industry standards.

Mark Birrell, Chief Executive of Wildnet Group commented, "We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with ACORD, its member organisations and our trading partners to assist in the enabling of e-commerce within the insurance and reinsurance industry. We recognise the need to be at the forefront of change in the way we conduct our business processes and fully intend to take advantage of every opportunity to move forward, by using the latest technology available, together with co-ordinated data standards".

"We are pleased to see Wildnet Group join ACORD and help drive implementation of future standards," said Gregory Maciag, President and CEO, ACORD. "Wildnet’s position at the cutting-edge of e-commerce services, and now its membership in

ACORD, is proof of its recognition of the benefits to be derived from global standards in the industry. We look forward to working with them."