Best of Artemis, week ending April 19th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending April 19th 2026, 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 or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm, week ending April 19th 2026:

1. Collateralised fronting the centrepiece of Hannover Re’s broad ILS offering: Sehm & Horstmann
   While Hannover Re has expanded its range of insurance-linked securities services and facilitation, responding to market demand, the company sees collateralised fronting as the centrepiece of this capital market focused aspect of its global reinsurance operations, executives Silke Sehm and Patrick Horstmann told us in an interview.
2. Cat bond market fundamentals are tremendous. Growth absolutely expected & sustainable: John Seo
   The fundamentals underpinning recent and expected future levels of activity in the catastrophe bond market are tremendous according to John Seo of Fermat Capital Management LLC, given which the cat bond market’s growth is absolutely to be expected and absolutely viewed as sustainable, he has explained.
3. Hamilton launches casualty reinsurance sidecar with Sixth Street capital and asset strategy
   Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd. has announced the launch of its first casualty reinsurance sidecar with a plan to cede around $300 million of premium to it over the multi-year duration of structure and investment firm Sixth Street as the provider of capital and an asset strategy to the arrangement.
4. Enstar and Artex partner on exit solutions for ILS structures, aim to solve trapped capital issue
   Artex Capital Solutions has partnered with legacy and run-off reinsurance specialist Enstar to introduce structured exit options embedded within Artex’s ILS vehicles.
5. Cat bond issuance on pace to hit $10bn faster in 2026. But large deals matter for records
   While the first-quarter of 2026 failed to set a new issuance record for the period in the catastrophe bond market, rising activity in recent weeks means that cat bond issuance this year could hit the $10 billion milestone around one week faster than it did a year ago, according to Artemis’ data and analysis.
6. How PCS integrates Contributor, Verisk, and Public Data to define industry losses: White
   Property Claim Services (PCS) has provided us a detailed overview of the processes the organisation uses to designate and estimate insurance industry losses for perils such as U.S. tropical cyclones, severe thunderstorms, and winter storms.
7. Moody’s seeks feedback on pooled structures of insurance-linked securities (ILS)
   Moody’s Ratings has published a new discussion paper about pooled structures of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and is seeking market feedback to clarify its understanding of market interest and the risk analysis needs for such financial instruments that could expand the investment use-case for ILS.
8. Casualty sidecar / ILS market to expand. Alignment, maturity driving investor interest: SIFMA
   The casualty insurance-linked securities and casualty reinsurance sidecar market is seen as primed for expansion, with speakers at last week’s SIFMA ILS conference in Miami saying the aligned nature of the structures and the motivation of cedents to participate all suggest traction will persist.
9. AI treated as force-multiplier for cyber losses. Introduces aggregation, correlation risks: CyberCube
   The insurance and reinsurance industry is currently treating artificial intelligence (AI) as a potential “force-multiplier” for cyber losses, but the pace of development of AI and its roll-out is reshaping cyber risk in general and introduces portfolio aggregation and loss correlation risks, CyberCube has explained.
10. EU nat cat insurance pool could be enhanced by cat bonds and ILS: EIOPA / ESM paper
    A new proposal calling for a European natural catastrophe insurance pool to diversify risks across countries and perils could be further enhanced by the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, according to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).

This is not every article published on Artemis during the last week, just the most popular among our readers over the last seven days. There were 33 new articles published in the last week.

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