Best of Artemis, week ending October 25th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending October 25th 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 October 25th 2026:

1. There’s a lot of hungry and extremely naive capacity available: Chubb CEO Greenberg
   Competitive insurance and reinsurance market conditions are spreading beyond just property risks, as there is “a lot of hungry and extremely naive capacity available,” Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg said last week.
2. Fermat founders on notable catastrophe bond deals from 25 years in the ILS business
   Fermat Capital Management is celebrating its 25th birthday this year. The company has published a fantastic article listing 25 catastrophe bonds it feels were particularly notable from over its history, so we spoke with the co-founders to learn more.
3. Lloyd’s issues guidance and expectations for broker-originated reinsurance structures
   As industry focus grows on designing efficient structures to enable capital to connect with reinsurance risk, Lloyd’s has issued guidance on its expectations for any broker-originated reinsurance structures, which is a strategy that Lloyd’s itself believes is likely to see increasing demand.
4. Arbol launches parametric insurance for gov-imposed data center construction moratoriums
   Arbol has designed a parametric product that aims to transfer the risk of government-imposed moratoriums on data center construction projects.
5. Jamaica’s parametric cat bond payout funded electricity restoration: Chief Fiscal Economist, Francis
   After the devastating impacts of hurricane Melissa triggered a full $150 million payout of its IBRD CAR Jamaica 2024 parametric catastrophe bond, the rapid funding from this insurance product helped the country recover its electricity network faster than would have otherwise been possible, the government’s Chief Fiscal Economist explained last week.
6. Hannover Re sees ILS capital as sustainable reinsurance addition, source of growth: Horstmann
   Speaking during Hannover Re’s Baden-Baden media briefing, Patrick Horstmann Managing Director, and Head of insurance-linked securities (ILS) at the firm, emphasised that the German reinsurer sees ILS capital as a sustainable addition to the global reinsurance market and a key area of growth for the company.
7. 777 co-founder Wander pleads guilty to $500m+ scheme to defraud lenders and investors
   Josh Wander, one of the co-founders of investment firm 777 Partners, has pled guilty to wire fraud and securities fraud in connection with a $500 million plus scheme to defraud lenders and investors of the company.
8. ADB aims to expand catastrophe bond usage across Asian regions: Kessler
   The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is actively promoting catastrophe bonds for sovereign disaster risk financing across the region, but Thomas Kessler noted last week that this will require cooperation across governments, research and modelling institutions, insurers and the ILS investor base.
9. Artemis Monte Carlo Rendezvous Executive Roundtable 2026
   The full report is now available to download from Artemis’ 2026 Monte Carlo Rendezvous Executive Roundtable. The event featured leading insurance-linked securities and reinsurance market experts discussing investor sentiment, market conditions, pricing discipline and emerging opportunities across the catastrophe bond and ILS landscape.
10. Clear exit terms and liquid collateral key to lowering casualty sidecar tail risk charges: AM Best
    As casualty sidecars continue to gain traction, rating agency AM Best has highlighted that clear exit mechanics, high-quality collateral, and transparent risk transfer are critical to lowering tail risk capital charges for sponsors, warning that uncertain exit terms or weak collateral can leave cedents holding unexpected residual risk.

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 32 new articles published in the last week.

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