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The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) continues to grow its amount of catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) listings, with a further 44 securities with a combined value of $4.802 billion added in the first four months of 2018.

Continuing the trend of 2016 and the first-half of 2017, the total amount of catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) listings on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) reached a new high of $25.99 billion at year-end 2017, growth of roughly 23% year-on-year.

The total number of insurance-linked listings of catastrophe bonds, insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance sidecar notes and insurance linked investments on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) grew by another 16% during the first six months of 2017, to a new high of $24.5 billion.

The CEO of the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Greg Wojciechowski, a well-known figure in the ILS market given the dominance of the BSX in playing host to catastrophe bond and other insurance-linked security (ILS) listings, has been appointed to the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA) Board of Directors.

Bermuda-headquartered ILS management, servicing, transformation and fronting specialist Horseshoe Group has joined the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) as a listing sponsor, through its Horseshoe Corporate Services Ltd. unit.

The volume of insurance-linked listings of catastrophe bonds, insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance sidecar notes and insurance linked investment funds on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) reached a new high at the end of 2016, exceeding $20 billion for the first time.

The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) continues to grow the volume of insurance-linked listings of catastrophe bonds, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and insurance linked investment funds on the exchange, surpassing the $19 billion mark for the first time.

According to data released by ILS Bermuda Ltd., the steering committee of the forthcoming Bermuda Convergence 2015 event, the island captured a huge 87% of new catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security (ILS) issuance in 2014.

Following an impressive 2014 the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) has passed yet another milestone, revealing that a significant $17.462 billion catastrophe bonds, ILS, sidecars and reinsurance investment funds are now listed on the Exchange.

Bermuda was selected as the domicile of choice for 57% of insurance-linked securities (ILS) during 2014, leading to nearly $16 billion of insurance-linked listings on the BSX, and now the island wants to capitalise on this position as leading ILS domicile.