Archive for April, 2020

A number of countries have benefited from disbursements under World Bank provided catastrophe contingent lines of credit after the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic triggered their Catastrophe-Deferred Drawdown Options (CAT-DDO’s).

Third-party reinsurance capital from the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market and alternative capital vehicles remains a threat to the stable outlook for the global reinsurance market, rating agency A.M. Best believes.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond investors who cashed-out their holdings during March, as the world’s financial markets declined in the face of the Covid-19 coronavirus threat, are likely to return and may bring more investors with them, Lane Financial LLC believes.

A regional catastrophe bond market for the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of the business focused arm of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).

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The first catastrophe bond rating action due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is unsurprisingly related to one of the few mortality cat bonds left in the market, Swiss Re’s late 2015 Vita Capital VI Limited (Series 2015-1) transaction, which has been put on a negative watch by S&P Global Ratings.

Arbol, a technology driven marketplace that uses blockchain and smart contracts, has acquired well-known specialist provider of weather risk transfer and weather hedging solutions eWeatherRisk, as it looks to revolutionise the way weather risk transfer contracts are bought and sold.

Insurance and reinsurance firms located in Bermuda have paid a huge $19 billion of claims for losses caused by California or Australia wildfires and Japanese typhoons in just the last three years.

An expected tightening of third-party reinsurance capital from insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds and structures is likely to influence pricing at the upcoming mid-year reinsurance renewals, according to A.M. Best.

This weeks severe weather, convective storms and tornado outbreaks across the central and eastern U.S. could drive economic losses of over $1 billion, while the insurance and reinsurance market impact is likely in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Aon.