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Three tranches of catastrophe bond notes issued by Atlas VI Capital Ltd. on behalf of SCOR, the French reinsurance firm, have had their ratings affirmed after they underwent their annual resets of attachment probabilities without any major changes.

The recently completed Atlas VI Capital Ltd. 2011 catastrophe bond from SCOR, which secured them a $337m layer of reinsurance cover for certain of their U.S. hurricanes, U.S. earthquakes and European windstorm risks, was a first under the Irish SPV regime. All of SCOR’s Atlas cat bond have been domiciled in Dublin, Ireland but this […]

Reinsurer SCOR have announced the successful completion of their latest catastrophe bond transaction, Atlas VI Capital Ltd. 2011. It’s SCOR’s eighth time tapping the capital markets for catastrophe cover through one of their Atlas vehicles and this latest deal saw them issue three tranches of notes in two series, providing them just over $330m of […]

The latest Atlas catastrophe bonds from SCOR have grown in size during the marketing phase due to demand from investors. SCOR is issuing three tranches of notes, in two series, under their Atlas VI Capital Ltd. special purpose vehicle. Two tranches of Series 2011-1 cat bond notes are being issued to provide SCOR with U.S. […]

The Atlas VI Capital Ltd. Series 2011 catastrophe bond transaction which we covered the basic details of in an article last week has now received its preliminary rating from Standard & Poor’s. As a result we have more details on the transaction to bring to you here and have also updated our Deal Directory accordingly.

Regular catastrophe bond sponsor, French reinsurer SCOR, are in the early stages of marketing the latest cat bond in their Atlas VI Capital Ltd. series of transactions. This will be their third cat bond through their Dublin, Ireland domiciled Atlas VI Capital SPV and their eighth cat bond in the Atlas series of deals (details […]

Another series of catastrophe bond notes, Atlas VI Capital Ltd. 2009-1 Class A, has had its rating downgraded due to exposure to the earthquake event in Japan, however in this case it’s not due to exposure to the 11th March M9.0 earthquake, rather it is due to exposure to two aftershocks which occurred in early […]

Risk Management Solutions (RMS) have issued a preliminary index value from their Paradex Japan earthquake index for the 11th March Tohoku earthquake. The Paradex index is used in two of the catastrophe bond transactions with exposure to the Japanese earthquake, Montana Re and Atlas VI Capital.

Here’s a copy of the Risk Management Solutions (RMS) press release regarding their involvement as risk modellers in the recently closed €75m SCOR Atlas VI Capital Ltd. catastrophe bond transaction. It gives a little insight into the way their RMS® Paradex Japan Earthquake model was used.

Atlas VI Capital Ltd. has completed it’s issuance of a Series 2010-1 tranche of notes on behalf of French re/insurer SCOR. The deal, which we wrote about previously here, started life as a €60m transaction when it was first marketed but closed at an upsized €75m (another issuance taking advantage of investor demand).