Reinsurance News

In light of HCI Group’s interest in taking risk on-chain and issuing tokenized reinsurance securities through a new partnership with Oxbridge Re, Chairman and CEO Paresh Patel has highlighted how tokenized reinsurance securities have the potential to expand access to the reinsurance market by lowering investment barriers and shortening investment duration.

Verisk, the data analytics and technology provider, has acquired McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), a geospatial intelligence and event response company that specialises in global real-time catastrophe and conflict event analysis.

Arch Capital Group, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance specialist, has promoted insurance-linked securities and retrocession operations specialist Bryan Lynch to the role of Head of ILS Experience and Operations.

After yesterday’s magnitude 6.8 earthquake in the Kumamoto prefecture of Japan a number of specialist insurance-linked securities investment managers have commented, with all analysis seen so far indicating this is currently viewed as unlikely to be a loss event of particular note for the catastrophe bond and ILS market.

Conduit Re appears to have made further enhancements to its retrocession program around the mid-year as its North Atlantic hurricane probable maximum loss fell further and the company disclosed increased core retro limit, aggregate cover and protection against second and third events.

AXIS Capital, the global specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter, reported another rise in fee income earned through strategic capital partner arrangements in the second-quarter of 2026, as insurance-linked securities and third-party capital activities continue to build and its Capacity Solutions capability contributes.

Broking group WTW has launched a new streamlined longevity swap solution called Longevity Stream, that’s set to broaden access to the expanding market for UK defined benefit schemes with £100m to £1bn of liabilities.

Global gross domestic product (GDP) exposure to damaging severe convective storm (SCS) winds is projected to grow 14% over the next 30 years, reaching $20.2 trillion as climate risks continue to reshape underwriting globally, according to a new report by First Street, the climate risk financial modeling provider.

An earthquake has struck Japan in the Kumamoto prefecture of Kyushu. Preliminarily given a 7.1 magnitude, this has now been revised down to M6.8 by the USGS. However, Japan’s earthquake scale reports shaking at Shindo 7 level from this relatively shallow event, which is likely to result in some damage although reports are limited so […]

The Asian Development Bank is working with Mongolia on the potential to replicate the Risk-Layered Disaster Relief Finance Program it recently implemented for the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which puts sovereign parametric risk transfer instruments including catastrophe bonds as part of the conversation.