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JBA Risk Management releases global climate change flood mapping suite
23rd April 2026
JBA Risk Management, a specialist company focused on flood hazard modelling and climate risk analytics, has introduced a new suite of global flood maps that incorporate climate change projections. The tools are designed to help insurers, investors, corporates, and other stakeholders assess how physical flood risk may shift over time. According to ... Read the full article
JBA Risk Management launches updated Global Flood Model
24th March 2026
JBA Risk Management, a UK-based flood science specialist, has extensively updated its Global Flood Model, enhancing it with updated hazard maps, an extended range of future climate event sets, while improving processing speed and exposure disaggregation. These developments aim to enable reinsurers, insurers, brokers, risk managers, and asset managers to better ... Read the full article
JBA Risk Management partners with TransZero to strengthen global flood risk insight
27th January 2026
JBA Risk Management, a UK-based flood science specialist, has partnered with start-up TransZero to enhance flood risk assessment for global property assets. Launched in September 2025, TransZero supports businesses with climate-related risk disclosure reporting by providing insights for property assets worldwide. Its platform serves the asset management, banking, insurance, and retail ... Read the full article
Red Cross leads pilot of parametric flood insurance in Malawi
2nd December 2025
The Malawi Red Cross Society and the Danish Red Cross, in partnership with African Risk Capacity (ARC) Ltd., JBA Global Resilience, the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF), and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have piloted Malawi’s first parametric flood insurance. The project is built on advanced flood-risk modelling with predefined contingency ... Read the full article
JBA launches high-res US flood model to meet reinsurance demand as data reveals major risk gap
13th November 2025
UK-based flood science specialist JBA Risk Management has launched a high-resolution US inland flood model, as new data reveals that almost one in three US properties - 38.6 million buildings - are at risk of flood. JBA has launched this new model in response to rising demand from the reinsurance and ... Read the full article
JBA Risk Management to launch India operations led by Mansi Kalra as MD
28th October 2025
UK-domiciled flood science specialist JBA Risk Management is establishing its Indian operations by opening an office in Bangalore next month, led by Mansi Kalra as Managing Director (MD). The move is motivated by the growing demand for advanced flood risk modelling and data solutions from the insurance and financial services sectors ... Read the full article
JBA Risk Management launches new India crop catastrophe model
10th September 2025
UK-domiciled flood science specialist JBA Risk Management has launched an updated version of its probabilistic India crop catastrophe model for insurers and reinsurers, incorporating enhanced market data, crops, seasons, and districts to provide better risk management insights. The new model also includes insurance pricing of India’s two primary crop insurance schemes, ... Read the full article
JBA Risk Management integrates NVIDIA Earth-2 tech to advance flood modelling
20th March 2025
Flood risk specialist JBA Risk Management has collaborated with NVIDIA's Earth-2 team to integrate AI-driven weather models into its flood risk catastrophe models, aiming to improve the understanding and representation of extreme and rare events for the insurance and risk sectors. For those unaware, NVIDIA Earth-2 is a development platform that ... Read the full article
JBA Risk Management launches new Australian flood model
11th March 2025
UK-based flood specialist JBA Risk Management has launched a new inland flood model for Australia to meet growing demand from the insurance and risk markets for better flood insights. Flooding, traditionally considered a secondary peril, has become an increasing concern for the insurance sector. Recent years have seen major flood events in ... Read the full article
Ping An partners with JBA to enhance flood risk management
4th March 2025
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China has entered a flood maps licensing agreement with UK-based flood specialist JBA Risk Management to enhance its underwriting and risk management capabilities. The partnership reflects the growing significance of flood risk in China, where both the frequency and severity of flood events have been ... Read the full article
Forvis Mazars partners with JBA Risk Management to enhance climate risk reporting
14th February 2025
Forvis Mazars, an audit, tax, and advisory firm, has joined forces with UK-based flood scientists JBA Risk Management to strengthen its climate-related physical risk sustainability reporting services. This collaboration comes in response to increasing international regulatory requirements that demand more detailed climate impact assessments. Previously reliant on open-source flood risk data, Forvis ... Read the full article
GRiP partners with JBA Risk Management to enhance flood risk intelligence in Africa
18th June 2024
GRiP has partnered with JBA Risk Management to offer customers access to the latest flood risk intelligence across Africa. This collaboration will provide insurers using GRiP's platform with valuable flood risk insights to enhance their underwriting for both personal and commercial insurance. Users of GRiP’s platform will gain access to data on ... Read the full article
Addresscloud and JBA Risk partner for flood risk management in Europe
24th April 2024
Geo-coding and property intelligence expert, Addresscloud, has partnered with flood specialist JBA Risk Management to map the flood risk of over 280 million buildings across mainland Europe. With this new service, insurers, reinsurers, and brokers will be able to identify in less than a second, the indicated flood risk at a ... Read the full article
Understanding likelihood of flood risks across portfolio vital, says JBA
1st March 2024
Flood specialist JBA Risk Management has warned about the risks associated with the failure to use good quality data and sophisticated climate change intelligence to understand the impact of floods on physical assets that would impact investors’ portfolios negatively. The warning comes as companies and organisations prepare to meet new annual ... Read the full article
JBA partners with Old Mutual Insure for use of flood maps in South Africa
26th January 2024
UK-based flood science specialist JBA Risk Management has partnered with South African non-life insurer Old Mutual Insure for the use of its detailed flood maps in the country. Haydn Marchant, re/insurance Specialist, JBA Risk Management, commented on the partnership, "We are delighted to be working with Old Mutual Insure to help ... Read the full article
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