Reinsurance News

Florida’s property insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, could increase its purchase of reinsurance and catastrophe bond backed risk transfer in 2024, with its new layer structure following the merging of its accounts suggesting as much as $5.5 billion could be purchased next year.

Analysts in the European insurance team at investment banking giant Deutsche Bank are forecasting that risk-adjusted reinsurance renewal prices will be broadly neutral to slightly up in 2024, with the hard market persisting throughout the year.

Vantage Risk, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance company, has plans to leverage third-party capital in a broader set of underwriting lines in future and now with over $1.5 billion of capital to deploy using its AdVantage collateralized insurer class of company, 2024 could be the year it expands into non-cat risk, Chris McKeown told […]

The Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of insurtech Vesttoo have filed a request with the court to allow them to conduct legal discovery on the main bank named in the letter of credit (LOC) reinsurance collateral fraud, China Construction Bank.

Altamont Capital backed risk capital and reinsurance solutions broking start-up Augment Risk has set itself a tough goal to revolutionise reinsurance with a client-focused approach to broking and has today announced its hiring of former Aon and McGill exec Andrew Matson as its first CEO.

Recent European windstorms Babet and Aline are initially estimated to have caused an insurance industry loss of around €509 million by catastrophe data aggregator PERILS AG.

Artemis has learned that fronting specialist Clear Blue Insurance has filed a lawsuit against broking giant Aon, in relation to the reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) fraud perpetrated by insurtech Vesttoo.

Swiss Re is benefiting from a shift in insurance-linked securities (ILS) investor strategy, as ILS and alternative reinsurance capital becomes more complementary again, with these benefits set to keep growing, according to Philipp Rüede, Head of Swiss Re’s Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) unit.

The Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division of global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has seen continued success in fundraising in recent months, with third-party capital under management rising to $3.3 billion over the course of the third-quarter.

In a perhaps surprising turn of events, the opening hours of the COP28 climate talks today have seen a landmark agreement to operationalise and provide initial funding for the much-discussed loss and damage fund, that is designed to help the countries that are most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.