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'Four Twenty Seven will keep its own name and become an affiliate of Moody's Investors Service. It will continue to be headquartered in Berkeley, California. Four Twenty Seven has built a strong platform for quantifying climate-related exposures and producing actionable risk metrics, which are essential to understanding and informing climate risk and resilience measures,' said Myriam Durand, Moody's global head of assessments. 'Moody's is committed to offering global, transparent standards for assessing environmental risk, and the acquisition of Four Twenty Seven advances our objective of integrating climate analytics into our offerings.'
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