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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 […]

As market volatility continues to drive a rising demand for structured solutions, reinsurers are increasingly forced to handle complex client objectives all at once, and being able to successfully execute these deals requires underwriting, pricing, and capital teams to be well aligned from the very start. In order to tackle this, Northern Re has built […]

After working with Gálapagos Capital SSPE on a recent R$126 million offering of Insurance Risk Letters (LRS), Avla Brazil CEO Felippe Astrachan has said that LRS opens a door that allows the company to explore different types of risks that are not traditionally covered by the insurance and reinsurance market, while also remaining optimistic about […]

HCI Group, Inc., the insurance holding company, is tapping into the wave of interest in taking risk on-chain and issuing tokenized reinsurance securities as a way to access risk capital through a partnership with Oxbridge Re, that sees three tokens being offered to support risks held by its recently formed reinsurer Fortex Re.

Today we are excited to begin announcing expert speakers for our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, Artemis London 2026. 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.

While the hard market in property insurance and reinsurance has ended and the direction of travel for rates is generally down, Ian Beaton CEO of global specialty re/insurer Ark said he still feels there is rate adequacy this year and maybe into next. But, given the investor interest in casualty ILS, he was less certain […]