Best of Artemis, week ending September 20th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 20th 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 September 20th 2026:

1. Gallagher Securities working on cat bond that will introduce new peril to the market: CEO Bolding
   With the catastrophe bond market consistently tapping into new and emerging perils, Jason Bolding, Global CEO of Gallagher Securities revealed to us in an interview at the Monte Carlo Rendez-vous event, that Gallagher Securities is currently working on a transaction for a peril that’s never been done before in the market.
2. China Construction Bank manager pleads guilty to accepting bribes from Vesttoo employee
   The Vesttoo debacle refuses to go away. In a turn of events, the first criminal charges related to the reinsurance letters of credit fraud have finally been confirmed, as a former China Construction Bank employee has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes to authenticate false collateral documentation.
3. Arch Re promoted Roberts to Head of ILS, hired Neyme as ILS Portfolio Manager
   Arch Re, the global reinsurance arm of Arch Capital group, has promoted Christian Roberts as its new Head of ILS and hired Cyril Neyme as an ILS Portfolio Manager, with both of these moves happening in July this year.
4. Property reinsurance prices most likely to fall 7.5% to 15% in 2027: Moody’s survey
   After double-digit price declines this year, respondents to a survey have indicated they expect property reinsurance rates will most likely tumble a further 7.5% to 15% in 2027, Moody’s Ratings data shows.
5. Cat 5 Florida hurricanes could drive $300bn plus insurance market loss: Swiss Re
   Under certain scenarios, a category 5 hurricane ploughing into Miami or Tampa Bay has the potential to drive more than US $300 billion of losses across the global insurance and reinsurance market, Swiss Re’s Institute said today, while also explaining the importance of reinsurance and ILS capital in protecting the state.
6. MembersCap launches cat bond fund, was sole investor behind innovative cat / cyber ILW
   Members Capital Management Limited (MembersCap) executives told us the company has recently launched its first catastrophe bond fund strategy to expand its offering to clients, while also disclosing that it was the investor behind a recent innovative industry-loss warranty (ILW) transaction.
7. 28% of reinsurance buyers expect to increase alternative capital use in 2027: Moody’s
   For the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, one of the most promising findings of Moody’s Ratings annual survey of reinsurance buyers is that 28% of respondents said they anticipate increased use of alternative capital sources in 2027.
8. Institutional capital now core market infrastructure, as value chain unbundles: Aon
   Institutional capital has matured into a structural component of global reinsurance infrastructure, accounting for nearly a fifth of total global reinsurance capital market capacity in the first-half of 2026 as the traditional underwriting value chain continues to unbundle, according to broker Aon.
9. Bamboo has attracted $400m of third-party funds to its Greenshoots Re reinsurance sidecar
   Data-driven insurance distribution platform Bamboo Insurance Services has so far attracted $400 million of third-party funds to support its Greenshoots Re Ltd. collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle, recent IPO filings show.
10. CalPERS ramps up cat bond and ILS investments to near $2.5bn valuation at mid-year 2026
    CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the United States, has continued to expand its investments in catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities fund strategies with the combined valuation of its allocations to the asset class nearing $2.5 billion at the mid-point of 2026, an increase of around 70% just in the first-half of this year.

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 30 new articles published in the last week.

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