Atlas Re VII

French reinsurer SCOR has completed its latest catastrophe bond, securing approximately $228m of multi-year retrocessional reinsurance cover for itself on a fully collateralised basis. Atlas Reinsurance VII Limited saw SCOR offload certain U.S. hurricane, U.S. earthquake and European windstorm risks to capital market investors on both aggregate and per-occurrence basis’ using industry loss index triggers.

Here’s a quick update on the latest multi-peril catastrophe bond from SCOR, Atlas Reinsurance VII Limited, which we wrote about yesterday to reveal the doubling in size and lowering of price guidance. The transaction priced late yesterday and in the end SCOR took the maximum size of the deal while pricing came in right at […]

Yet again a catastrophe bond has increased in size during marketing and the expected pricing on the transaction has dropped to, and below, the originally marketed range. This has been a trend in the cat bond market this year, with cat bonds regularly increasing in size and investors accepting lower coupon payments than a deal […]

Regular catastrophe bond sponsor, French reinsurer SCOR, are returning to the cat bond market for another Atlas issuance. The latest Atlas cat bond see’s them revert back to the original naming convention that they began their ILS market ventures with, using an issuing entity named Atlas Reinsurance VII Limited. The ninth cat bond transaction in […]