Artemis Live interview: Why isn’t the ILS market writing more cyber risk?

For our latest Artemis Live video interview, we were joined by Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS to discuss the subject of cyber risk and ask the question, why isn’t it a bigger exposure in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market?

For almost a decade, the subject of cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS), cyber catastrophe bonds and the ILS fund market as provider of cyber reinsurance, has been a topic of conversation at industry events around the world, our own included.

But years later, the ILS market’s ventures in cyber risk remain relatively limited, to some bespoke transactions and exposure picked up silently from other lines of business.

Why is that?

Tom Johansmeyer and I explored some of the reasons behind this, including:

• Does the ILS market really want cyber risk?
• Is the lack of data, risk models and industry loss events still a limiting factor?
• How big an issue are ransomware losses for the cyber market?
• What could catalyse the need for more cyber risk capital?
• What is the outlook for cyber reinsurance renewals at January 1st?
• And, why is cyber reinsurance and retro so dysfunctional right now?

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