Archive for November, 2021

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending November 21st 2021, 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.

Kettle, the reinsurance focused deep-learning and artificial intelligence (AI) insurtech that currently focused on California wildfire risks, has raised a $25 million Series A funding round to help it expand its business and further develop its advanced technologies.

Global consultancy Bain & Company has highlighted access to alternative sources of capital and the use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) as one of the key factors for insurers to consider as they look for success in what the company calls “a radically different future.”

Inver Re, the recently launched global reinsurance brand of the Ardonagh Group, has announced another key hire, adding former Hiscox Re executive Chris Sharpe as its new Strategy, Innovation and Business Development Director.

The Demex Group, a climate risk focused insurtech that aims to deliver climate-resilience through financial risk solutions on a global scale, has partnered with Canopius owned MGA and insurance API platform Vave to offer parametric extreme temperature insurance to commercial property owners.

The Philippines has received more catastrophe protection with the help of the World Bank, as its government has signed up to another $500 million catastrophe contingent line-of-credit through a new Catastrophe-Deferred Drawdown Option arrangement, dubbed CAT-DDO 4.

Securian Financial Group life insurance subsidiary, Minnesota Life Insurance Company has returned to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market to sponsor its second mortality catastrophe bond transaction, seeking another $100 million or more of capital markets backed extreme mortality reinsurance with a La Vie Re Limited (Series 2021-1) issuance.

We are delighted to announce to all our readers that we are returning to New York for an in-person conference on February 4th 2022, with ILS NYC 2022 registration now open and tickets available.

ICAP, part of the TP ICAP group which is one of the largest interdealer brokers in the world, has completed what it is calling a landmark deal in the weather derivatives market, by directly connecting a renewable energy provider and a reinsurance capital provider using a fixed agreement, for the first time.

SiriusPoint, the international insurance and reinsurance company that launched as Third Point Re and Sirius Group combined, has announced the hiring of a new Chief Risk Officer, in Andreas Kull, who the company has hired from Bernina Re.