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Munich Re, the German headquartered global reinsurance giant, has appointed property treaty underwriting specialist Lisa Benhalima as a Manager Structuring within its Global Insurance Linked Securities Solutions team.

Catastrophe bond issuance is expected to exceed $20 billion for the second year in a row in 2026, according to Aon Securities, with the maturity schedule seen as a “constructive” market feature that when added to coupon earnings means cash and capital levels for fund managers and investors have been particularly high this year.

Reinsurance capital reached a record high of $790 billion by the end of Q1 2026, but it was alternative or third-party reinsurance capital, so that deployed through insurance-linked securities and related collateralized structures, which was the sole driver of growth as it reached $141 billion, rising 4% from the end of the year, according to […]

Capital management in the life insurance sector is moving beyond balance sheet expansion to prioritise flexibility and investor alignment. However, while long-duration institutional capital remains the foundation, McKinsey & Company reports that leading platforms are now diversifying funding and exploring greater liquidity through mechanisms such as tradable sidecar interests.

The Demex Group, a risk analytics and intelligence company that facilitates climate and catastrophe peril parametric reinsurance protection, has announced the launch of a new modelled-loss trigger winter storm reinsurance product for primary carriers.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has signalled that a long-awaited consultation on new laws to establish a Protected Cell Company (PCC) structure that could be used for collateralised reinsurance arrangements and efficient insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance is coming soon.

Ariel Sociedade Seguradora de Propósito Específico S.A. (Ariel SSPE), the insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform in Brazil, has announced that it has appointed Laercio Vicente to its executive team, who brings direct experience in structuring Brazil’s Letras de Risco de Seguro (LRS, Insurance Risk Letters), the country’s unique ILS instrument.

As our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference Artemis London 2026 moves closer, we’re delighted to announce four more expert speakers. Join us in London on September 1st for a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking, register to attend the conference here.

Oxbridge Re Holdings Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, alongside its subsidiary SurancePlus, has announced annualised returns of 29.3% and 43.4% for investors in its 2025- 2026 EtaCat Re and ZetaCat Re tokenized reinsurance offerings, which has exceeded their original respective target returns of 20% and 42%.

Verisk’s recent launch of its updated U.S. Tropical Cyclone model, delivered via the firm’s new cloud-native Synergy Studio platform, represents a major milestone built on years of deliberate work, and according to Gayatri Natarajan, SVP of Product Management, the extensive effort behind the release directly reflects the evolving demands of the complex risk landscape the […]