California has been hit by a series of earthquakes with the two largest being the magnitude 6.4 quake that struck on Thursday and a more significant magnitude 7.1 on Friday, both of which struck the Ridgecrest City area of the state.

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The steady rise in interest rates of instruments such as U.S. Treasuries, that are typically used as collateral for insurance-linked securities (ILS) and collateralized reinsurance investments, have now served to boost returns for ILS investors in 2019.

The impacts to reinsurance and ILS players from the typhoon Jebi losses in Japan may still have a little further to run, as the escalation of the industry loss has hit fresh layers in reinsurance programs, we’ve learned.

As many as 2,000 policyholders of earthquake insurance coverage provided by the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) were exposed to yesterday’s magnitude 6.4 quake near Ridgecrest, California, but the event could have cost billions had it struck a more densely populated area.

Global Parametrics, the parametric and index-based disaster risk transfer company, and the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID), have agreed in principal to provide some of the capital necessary to back the Red Cross’ volcano catastrophe bond.

The CCRIF SPC (formerly known as the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) along with the World Bank have announced the issuance of the first two parametric insurance policies covering the fisheries industry.

Reinsurance giant Munich Re aims to keep a 10% share of the growing global cyber marketplace and so far says that alternative sources of capital are not impinging on the cyber sector, with little competition seen from ILS market sources.