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Global Parametrics has collaborated on a new climate risk transfer product that integrates parametric risk transfer with the provision of debt financing to microfinance organisations and initiatives.

Microfinance has not to date proved to be the most commercially viable area to expand into for many large insurers however that is changing and as regulation improves, technology is developed and the idea becomes more accepted it is beginning to be looked on as an area of potential growth and opportunity.

Guy Carpenter have been awarded a grant by the Microinsurance Innovation Facility to allow them to develop a reinsurance facility for microfinance operations. Using the grant Guy Carpenter will create the infrastructure for a reinsurance pooling facility dedicated to microfinance risk transfer solutions. This will enable microfinance initiatives to access the global reinsurance and risk […]

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) are a stand-out asset class within the private assets segment, according to Nils Rode, Chief Investment Officer, Private Assets, Schroders Capital, who said yesterday that the ILS investment environment remains one of the best ever.

A new report calls for an expanding use of risk sharing to help the world tackle the climate emergency and highlights the role of the capital markets, as well as instruments such as ILS and catastrophe bonds, in helping to protect lives and livelihoods against loss and damage during a resilient transition to net zero.

Global Parametrics and specialist flood risk modeller Fathom have partnered to develop a global parametric flood index that can be used in triggers of risk transfer, insurance and reinsurance arrangements.

Global Parametrics, the parametric and index-based disaster risk transfer company, has partnered with risk modelling specialist JBA Risk Management to design a parametric flood insurance product for VisionFund to cover flood risks in Myanmar.

Over 800 million people live within 100km of an active volcano around the world. To prepare for a potential eruption, the Danish Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent Societies, alongside industry partners, are planning a catastrophe bond to cover risks associated with 10 volcanoes in 4 regions. This will likely be […]

Global asset management group Schroders is set to acquire a majority stake in impact and microfinance investment management specialist BlueOrchard, the firm that is also the manager of the InsuResilience fund.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 21st January 2018, 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.