Catastrophe bond news

The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) has now listed in total 169 new catastrophe bond notes and insurance-linked securities structures in the first three-quarters of 2026, maintaining its global position as ILS listings leader and becoming home to the vast majority of listed ILS issuance so far this year.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending October 11th 2026, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

Hurricane Simon in the Pacific remains a very strong storm at major hurricane strength and is expected to sustain that status when it nears landfall on the Mexico coastline on Sunday, with its intensification and deeper pressure now putting the $175 million IBRD CAR Mexico 2024 (Pacific) parametric catastrophe bond at potential risk.

According to reports from Nepalese news sources, the country’s government Council of Ministers has approved signing a Mandate Agreement for the Nepal Earthquake Catastrophe Bond project with the World Bank.

Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re is bringing the seventh catastrophe bond offering in the annual parametric US earthquake risk series of deals, with an initial $200 million target for an Acorn Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, Artemis has learned.

Hurricane Isaias is now forecast to intensify further to become a major Category 3 storm as it approaches the Gulf Coast today, outpacing meteorologists initial expectations. But, prior to landfall late today or early on Saturday, Isaias is expected to encounter wind shear and begin to weaken, which should lessen the impacts and keeps estimates […]

US military mutual insurer USAA has returned to the catastrophe bond market to sponsor what will be the 48th cat bond that we have analysed and tracked from the company, with an initial target for $225 million or more in reinsurance from this Residential Reinsurance 2026 Limited (Series 2026-2) issuance, Artemis has learned.

Our latest video features the second panel discussion of the day at our recent Artemis London 2026 catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities conference, a session focused on catastrophe bonds and what the current state of the market means for investor, ILS investment manager and sponsor discipline.

Isaiais is now the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season having intensified overnight and the forecast continues to suggest a Category 2 landfall on the Gulf Coast is a possible outcome, at which level of intensity reinsurance broker Gallagher Re said it would typically result in insured losses in the low to mid-single digit […]

We’ve learned that the new Great Wall Re Limited catastrophe bond issuance is $12 million in size, so presumably will provide an equivalent amount of capital markets backed reinsurance to the sponsoring Chinese domestic insurer, PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited.