Catastrophe bond issuance in the second-quarter of 2025 now looks set to exceed $10 billion, marking the period as the first where new cat bonds issued have reached that milestone in any official quarter, as activity this year continues to propel the market to new heights, Artemis’ data shows.
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As South Asia faces escalating threats from extreme weather events, the World Bank Group is urging policymakers to scale up innovative financial tools such as weather-index insurance to help households and businesses manage climate risks more effectively.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending June 15th 2025, 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.
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The Board of African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd), the financial affiliate and parametric insurance underwriting entity of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group, has announced the appointment of David Maslo as interim CEO, effective June 16th, 2025.
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Having increased the capital base of its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar structure and raised the proportional quota share for 2025, W. R. Berkley ceded a significant 82% more in reinsurance and retrocession premiums to the structure in the first-quarter of 2025.
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At Artemis’ ILS NYC 2025 conference, a panel composed of leaders from across the ILS value chain delivered a bullish message about the future of the casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) space.
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Vermont Mutual Insurance Company has now raised the target size of its new Baldwin Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond issuance, with the company now looking to secure up to $250 million of capital markets-backed reinsurance protection to cover losses in north east US states.
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Global P&C insurer AmTrust Financial Services has now secured its latest catastrophe bond, at the 50% upsized top-end target size to source $150 million of northeast US named storm reinsurance protection from the capital markets with its new Solis Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) issuance, at a spread fixed at the low-end of guidance.
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UBS Asset Management currently sees a little more value in collateralized reinsurance than in catastrophe bonds, while in recent months it benefited from positive revisions to wildfire loss reserves at an ILS manager it allocates to.
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Mercury General Corporation, the California headquartered insurer, has entered the 144A catastrophe bond market for the first time, seeking $100 million or more in reinsurance from the capital markets with a Luca Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) issuance that will cover it for wildfire and fire-following earthquake losses in its home state, Artemis has learned.
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In a rapidly evolving re/insurance landscape, Vantage Risk is positioning itself at the forefront of innovation and adaptability, particularly in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space.
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Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has lowered its estimated insured losses from Cyclone Alfred to AU $2.250 billion, down 12% from the initial loss estimate of AU $2.568 billion issued in April 2025, six weeks after the event.
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Hudson Structured Capital Management’s (HSCM) Rachel Bardon has been appointed to the newly-created role of Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) at Compre, the Bermuda-domiciled international specialty reinsurance group, effective September 1st, 2025.
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With property catastrophe reinsurance pricing having now softened from its recent hard market highs, there is an expectation that ceding companies and buyers will look to take the opportunity to secure more protection lower down in the working layers of their reinsurance towers, analysts at Jefferies have stated.
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