Archive for October, 2026

Versicherungskammer Bayern Versicherungsanstalt des oeffentlichen Rechts’ (VKB), the German domestic market insurance group, is back in the catastrophe bond market looking to renew coverage from its soon to mature debut deal, by sponsoring a currently €175 million King Max Re II DAC (Series 2026-1) German multi-peril transaction, we have learned.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending October 25th 2026, 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.

USAA has now priced and secured the 56% upsized target of $350 million of multi-year per-occurrence reinsurance coverage from its new Residential Reinsurance 2026 Limited (Series 2026-2) catastrophe bond issuance, getting the capital markets coverage at pricing levels below guidance, Artemis can report.

As the catastrophe bond market pipeline builds for the fourth-quarter of 2026, we are already tracking what will be only the second ever year where issuance of 144A catastrophe bonds and private cat bond deals has exceeded the $20 billion level, while currently the market remains on a faster issuance pace than 2025.

Demonstrating the continued profitability of reinsurance underwriting businesses in 2026, global giant Munich Re has preliminarily reported its third-quarter net profit will be higher than consensus at €1.7 billion, on which basis the company has raised its full-year profit guidance by €300 million.

Rating agency AM Best has indicated in a new report that fronting companies are expected to engage more frequently with the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market to drive capacity diversification using catastrophe bonds, sidecars and collateralized reinsurance structures.

A survey of 105 institutional investors across the DACH-region undertaken by the German association for alternative investments, shows that an increasing number of allocators in the region are choosing catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities, while more indicate they intend to enter the sector.

CCRIF SPC, the regional parametric risk pool for the Caribbean and Central America, has announced that the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has become the first UN agency and multilateral organisation to join and purchase parametric insurance from it.

This new video features the third panel discussion of the day at our recent Artemis London 2026 catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities conference, a session focused on achieving diversification within the cat bond and ILS asset class and what that actually means for investors.

Hannover Re has for a second time increased the target size of what will be the seventh catastrophe bond offering in the annual Acorn Re parametric US earthquake series of deals, now seeking $450 million of limit from the Acorn Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, Artemis understands.