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According to Kevin O’Donnell, CEO of RenaissanceRe, the reinsurer’s third-party capital and insurance-linked securities management unit, RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, is experiencing more capital interest in its collateralized vehicles than it can accommodate within its structures.

A new report from Autonomous suggests that reinsurers are broadly keen to defend against any further loosening of terms and conditions (T&Cs), amid industry debate over the robustness of the response, leading the firm to note that T&C’s are now the new battleground.

As the date of our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference approaches, we have added four more expert speakers to the Artemis London 2026 website. Join us on September 1st for a full-day of in-depth ILS market discussion and valuable networking. Register to attend the conference here.

As the global financial services sector is currently undergoing a transitional shift which sees stablecoins moving from niche instruments into a key system of institutional finance, the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has outlined how the island’s insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector is well placed to benefit from this form of cryptocurrency.

The global insurance and reinsurance market may be seeing improved profitability and premium growth, but global consultancy Bain & Company believes gains are “largely cyclical and mask unresolved challenges” while the future winners are expected to be those that lower the cost of risk and expand access to coverage.

A new restricted special purpose insurer (SPI) named Huygens Re Ltd. has been established in Bermuda, which we understand will become the dedicated structure for the insurance-linked securities investment into a quota share with reinsurance firm PartnerRe for PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investor.

In May, our sister publication Reinsurance News hosted its second Legacy Market Roundtable in Brighton, in partnership with global reinsurer Swiss Re. A takeaway from the 90-minute session was the shifting role of alternative capital within the casualty space, with one participant noting that this influx of capital could position the legacy industry as a […]

Fermat Capital Management, the specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has reached another high point in terms of its cat bond and ILS assets under management, surpassing the $11 billion milestone recently, Artemis can report.

As the global protection gap continues to widen, closing it is no longer a question of mobilising more capital, it is a matter of engineering entirely new markets.

With capacity constraints likely to limit the insurance industry’s ability to fully insure hyperscale data centre projects, given their scale and complexity, a new report from S&P notes that this will drive greater use of self-insurance through captive insurers, and potentially, alternative capital such as insurance-linked securities (ILS).