Reinsurance News

The Demex Group, a risk analytics and intelligence company that facilitates climate and catastrophe peril parametric reinsurance protection, has announced the launch of a new modelled-loss trigger winter storm reinsurance product for primary carriers.

Guy Carpenter, the global reinsurance broking firm, has reported that a combination of abundant capacity and a growing appetite from reinsurers has kept the competitive pricing environment intact at the mid-year renewals, while also highlighting that current market conditions are encouraging buyers to explore alternative options such as parametric solutions and sidecars to complement traditional […]

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has signalled that a long-awaited consultation on new laws to establish a Protected Cell Company (PCC) structure that could be used for collateralised reinsurance arrangements and efficient insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance is coming soon.

Pre-arranged financing through macro-level disaster risk instruments, including catastrophe bonds and parametric insurance, are deemed a practical, scalable solution that can deliver financial support for early action to support recovery and resilience, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has explained.

A new study, co-authored by Dr. Benjamin Hohermuth of Schroders Capital, alongside researchers from ETH Zurich, MeteoSwiss, and Stanford University, suggests that standard vendor models used by the majority of insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers contain inherent limitations by overlooking changes in hurricane frequency.

The Natural Disaster Fund (NDF), a largely parametric risk transfer focused public-private partnership funded by UK and German governmental entities and managed by Global Parametrics (part of CelsiusPro Group) has signed up a major new capacity provider in global re/insurer MS Amlin.

Andrew Creed, Group President and Group Chief Financial Officer of legacy acquirer RiverStone International, highlighted that as the legacy and run-off market continues to evolve, having insurance-linked securities (ILS) solutions readily available is becoming increasingly valuable for global operators.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation once again benefited from meaningful ILS manager and capital markets support for its traditional reinsurance needs in 2026, with these third-party capital investors taking 52% of the placement, while Nephila Capital was the largest single participant.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has now finalised its reinsurance risk transfer tower of almost $2.82 billion for 2026, securing $691 million of traditional reinsurance at the June 1 renewals, to add to its $2.125 billion of outstanding catastrophe bond protection.

Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re), the reinsurance arm of the insurance group, and Safehub, a provider of seismic sensor and risk management technology, have partnered to provide the Mexican federal government with a new nationwide parametric earthquake and volcanic risk insurance solution.