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We’ve already covered the Green Valley Ltd. catastrophe bond in some detail on this blog (here and here) and it now resides in our catastrophe bond deal directory. Swiss Re, who issued and arranged the deal, have sent out a press release today announcing completion of the transaction which we felt worth posting for the […]

The second catastrophe bond to be issued by Green Valley Ltd. has successfully closed at its expected €100m. The transaction which has been marketed through September (and we wrote about previously here) closed today and runs until 10th January 2012.

Swiss Re are bringing to market a second catastrophe bond under the Green Valley Ltd. Cayman Islands domiciled special purpose vehicle on behalf of French insurer Groupama. The transaction which comprises €100m of insurance-linked securities is expected to be completed within the next two weeks.

French insurance and banking group Groupama is seeking to extend the cover it receives from the capital markets through catastrophe bond issuances with a new transaction, Green Fields II Capital Ltd. (Series 2013-1). The transaction will give the French insurer an expanded and extended source of French windstorm reinsurance coverage.

Law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher (WFG) have hired a team of partners and lawyers from rival Dewey & LeBoeuf who bring with them extensive experience in the insurance-linked securities, alternative risk transfer and reinsurance / capital markets convergence area. Dewey & LeBoeuf have been dogged by rumours of issues and departures from the firm […]

Here’s a useful list of all of the catastrophe bonds we have recorded as issued during the year 2010. Each deal is linked to our catastrophe bond deal directory where you can read more details on the transaction structure and cover provided by each cat bond. By our reckoning there were 26 deals issued about […]

As we all know, reinsurance pricing has been softening of late and this means there is plenty of reinsurance capacity available at good prices for insurers to snap up. This has been making the insurance-linked security and catastrophe bond market seem more expensive and less competitive as an alternative hedging mechanism, but perhaps that trend […]

Aon Benfield Securities have today published their report looking at the catastrophe bond market during the third quarter of 2010. These reports are a great way to look at the general market health and outlook for the next quarter. As well as a look at the transactions which occurred the report also discusses the Aon […]

Guy Carpenter highlight an interesting point in the second part of their World Catastrophe Reinsurance Market report regarding the types of companies involved as arrangers, structurers and placement agents in catastrophe bond insurance-linked security deals this year.

It’s often overlooked that there is catastrophe bond exposure in Europe, most of the coverage is related to hurricanes in the U.S. or earthquakes. Only when an event occurs of the magnitude of this past weekends windstorm does it suddenly become a talking point in the insurance-linked securities market. A deadly storm (Klaus) blew in […]