Archive for November, 2025

The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) has now raised its target for fully-collateralized earthquake reinsurance from its latest catastrophe bond, the Ursa Re II Ltd. (Series 2025-2) issuance, with now between $670 million and $770 million of limit sought, while the price guidance has been reduced for both tranches of notes.

The Hartford, a US primary property and casualty insurer, is back in the catastrophe bond market seeking $270 million or more in multi-peril collateralized catastrophe reinsurance protection from the capital markets through sponsorship of a Foundation Re IV Ltd. (Series 2026-1) cat bond issuance.

AXA XL, the global specialty insurance and reinsurance arm of the AXA Group, has returned to the catastrophe bond market seeking $175 million or more of industry loss based retrocessional protection with a new Galileo Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) issuance, as the company demonstrates a desire to secure more capital markets backed cover.

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Jonathan Gray, Chief Underwriting Officer at Pool Re, the UK’s leading terrorism reinsurer, has emphasised that while its catastrophe bond activity is smaller than the traditional retrocession programme, it remains ‘absolutely central’ to the firm’s risk protection framework.

Descartes Underwriting, the parametric risk transfer specialist, has adopted mea Platform’s artificial intelligence (AI) products to enhance automation and data orchestration across its underwriting processes.

Arch Capital has successfully closed Bellemeade Re 2025-1 Ltd., the firm’s latest issuance of mortgage insurance-linked notes, which was priced at $199.3 million, while the firm also purchased a further $49,826,000 of mortgage reinsurance from a panel of reinsurers in tandem with this mortgage insurance-linked notes issuance.

Aspen Capital Markets, the third-party, ILS and alternative reinsurance capital management unit of global re/insurer Aspen, has continued to expand its business throughout the first nine months of 2025 with fee income generated by the unit increasing by 30% to $146 million.

Beazley has returned to the catastrophe bond market seeking $100 million of natural catastrophe reinsurance, once again using the Lloyd’s owned ILS structure to issue this London Bridge 2 PCC Limited (Fuchsia 3 – 2025-1) deal.

Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has reported a significant increase in its property and casualty result for the first nine months of 2025, as a much lower combined ratio, largely thanks to lower major losses, including natural catastrophes, puts the business on track to meet its target of a combined ratio of 85% or below […]