Climate risk insurtech The Demex Group has raised $5 million from a syndicate of new and existing investors to deliver its severe convective storm (SCS) and other secondary peril focused solution, Retained Climate Risk Reinsurance (RCR Re), to market.

Gianfranco Lot, Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of P&C Reinsurance at Swiss Re, has highlighted the importance of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market in helping to close the protection gap, noting that the sector is evolving in a positive manner. Speaking recently during reinsurance giant Swiss Re’s 2023 Media Dialogue, Lot commented on the role of […]

Investors are inching back to the catastrophe bond market as issuance volume reached about $2 billion in April despite rising cat losses, AM Best said in a recent webinar. Cat bonds could be on course for a record quarter, having recorded $2.05 billion in April 2023 compared to $490 million in 2022 and $1.33 billion […]

ICEYE, a provider of satellite data and services to inform decision-making and analysis, and Global Parametrics, the parametric and index-based disaster risk transfer company, have entered into a flood data agreement to support the development of innovative parametric solutions.

Des Potter, a Special Advisor for Lloyd’s and a former Guy Carpenter executive and ILS specialist, has asserted that Lloyd’s has “a pivotal role to play” in restoring investor confidence in the ILS class via its London Bridge 2 platform.

The Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of both SageSure and SafePort Insurance Company have highlighted strong insurance-linked securities (ILS) investor support for the recently completed Gateway Re II Ltd. (Series 2023-1) catastrophe bond, which provides SafePort and SafeChoice Insurance Company with $125 million of capital markets-backed named storm reinsurance protection.

A new paper from the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) highlights the potential for increased use of catastrophe bonds to support the overall supply of catastrophe insurance across the European Union (EU), as climate change threatens to widen the protection gap. According to the joint discussion paper, […]

Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer Aspen’s use of third-party capital is a key, strategic focus for the firm and will remain so going forward, according to Philip Hough, Global Head of Property Reinsurance at Aspen Re.

Strategic Risk Solutions, Inc., an independent provider of insurance, reinsurance and captive management and consulting services, has announced a new partnership with investment house Integrum Holdings LP.

Athene Holding Ltd., the life and retirement reinsurance company majority owned by investor and private equity specialist Apollo Global, now has access to more than $7 billion of deployable capital to purse “attractive growth opportunities” following the first close of the Apollo / Athene Dedicated Investment Program II with around $2 billion in capital commitments.