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Mexico returns for $425m+ quake & hurricane World Bank cat bond

News 13th February 2020

The government of Mexico has returned to the catastrophe bond market with the help of the World Bank and its International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), seeking a $425 million or larger slice of parametric earthquake and hurricane disaster insurance from the capital markets through an issue we’ve named IBRD / FONDEN 2020 that […]

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Efficient, precise, refined, the World Bank’s latest cat bond

News 7th August 2017

The parametric trigger in the latest catastrophe bond to be issued with the assistance of the World Bank, the $360 million Mexico earthquakes and named storm cat bond IBRD / FONDEN 2017, offers the sponsoring government of Mexico a more efficient layer of risk transfer, due to its more precise and refined structure, according to […]

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