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We’ve had another record week of traffic on Artemis as our audience continues to grow. This reflects the heightened interest in the catastrophe bond, insurance linked security and alternative risk/reinsurance sectors. News in the last week saw another cat bond come to market, East Lane Re V Ltd., and one nearly double in size, Mystic […]

Last week was particularly busy for news and saw some popular stories on Artemis. Here’s our Monday morning chance for you to catch up on the most viewed articles of the last week. This update includes news of the biggest longevity swap deal transacted to date, the launch of a new cat bond pricing tool, […]

The catastrophe bond market has been particularly active during the month of January 2012, with an extraordinary number of new issuances coming to market, according to Swiss based investment manager and private bank Clariden Leu in their latest fund performance report. Five new cat bonds with an issuance volume of close to $800m came to […]

The rate of catastrophe bond maturities has picked up with five transactions maturing in the last few days and another two due to mature before the end of the month. With close to $2.4 billion of cat bonds due to mature by the end of this quarter there is plenty of excess capital which is […]

Having written in the last week about the volume of catastrophe bonds which are listed on the stock exchanges  in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands I thought it would be a good idea to list them out by domicile for your information. We are going to include this information into a new catastrophe bond Deal […]

A lot of catastrophe bonds and reinsurance sidecars are domiciled within the Cayman Islands. At the islands recent budget address measures were announced with the aim of further developing the reinsurance sector. Examples of deals with a Cayman heritage include sidcars the (very) recent Nelson Re 2008-I, Nelson Re 2007, Zenkyorens cat bond SPV Muteki […]

Standard & Poor’s have amended a default table they use to help them rate insurance linked securitizations and catastrophe bonds. 11 cat bonds and six life mortality securitizations have been affected by the change. These default tables are amended occasionally to help S&P apply a rating that better reflects observed corporate defaults. Ratings on 8 […]