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Flood Re, the state-backed flood reinsurance pool in the United Kingdom, has entered the catastrophe bond market in search of £100 million in fully-collateralized UK flood retrocessional reinsurance, with a London Bridge 2 PCC Limited (Vision 2039 – 2025-1) transaction.

Having recently settled its latest and seventh catastrophe bond issuance, securing more flood reinsurance protection for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), David Maurstad of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), said the cat bond coverage was secured at “favorable terms”.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) continued to spread its risk with its latest visit to the catastrophe bond market, as the $575 million FloodSmart Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1)  cat bond has lifted its reinsurance program for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to a new high.

A new report from Swiss Re finds that flood insurance losses are growing rapidly while the insurability of flood as a peril continues to prove difficult for the insurance and reinsurance sectors. No other natural catastrophe impacts as many people on an annual basis, with floods impacting an estimated 500 million people per year. Back […]

The future of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been in the balance for some time. There have been repeated calls from reinsurance industry figures and also some politicians to end the public subsidised  NFIP and to allow the private reinsurance and risk transfer markets to step in.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending February 16th 2025, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

Full-service global law firm Locke Lord has announced the hiring of J.P. Hong, an experienced insurance-linked securities (ILS) lawyer that previously worked at Sidley, seeing the ILS market as a strategic growth area for the company.

Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter is rolling out a new parametric flood product that has been designed to enable risk transfer for large portfolios of exposure across wide-areas. The FloodShield triggers are structured with the help of Floodbase, KatRisk, and ICEYE, plus this could be a solution that utilises ILS market capacity in future.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has now successfully priced its latest FloodSmart Re Ltd. (Series 2024-1) catastrophe bond issuance, with the deal set to provide the upsized target of $575 million of flood reinsurance protection for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has raised its target for flood reinsurance from its latest visit to the catastrophe bond market, now aiming to secure up to $575 million of protection for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), with the FloodSmart Re Ltd. (Series 2024-1) cat bond issuance.