Catastrophe bond news

International insurance and reinsurance giant Chubb has now opted to pursue annual aggregate cyber reinsurance from its new East Lane Re VII Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond, which will make this the first aggregate cyber cat bond in the market’s history, Artemis can report.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending December 21st 2025, 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.

With Farmers Insurance Group having secured $400 million of multi-peril US catastrophe reinsurance protection through its new Topanga Re (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond issuance, Thomas Noh, CFO of Farmers Insurance Exchange stated that the issuance marks an important component of the company’s risk management strategy.

RenaissanceRe has now secured a 100% upsizing of its latest catastrophe bond, as the Mona Lisa Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) notes have now been priced to provide it $400 million in multi-peril catastrophe retrocessional reinsurance, Artemis has learned.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to expand, it still offers attractive opportunities for investors, with strong results over the past few years bringing increased investor capital into ILS funds, according to Mark Gibson, Senior Investment Director at Schroders Capital.

Morgan Stanley recently surveyed over 900 institutional investors to understand their current thoughts on sustainable investments. With climate adaptation and resilience growing in prominence as themes, investors cited catastrophe bonds and physical risk insurance contracts among their top picks.

As insurance-linked securities (ILS) continues to gain momentum in Hong Kong, Stephen Yiu, JP Chairman of the Hong Kong Insurance Authority (IA) believes that the market is a “blue ocean” for Hong Kong’s insurance brokers, and an opportunity not to be missed.

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As the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector begins to head into the key January renewals period, equity analysts at investment bank Jefferies have said that competitive dynamics within both the catastrophe bond and retrocession markets are likely to reinforce downward pressure at 1/1.

RenaissanceRe is now looking to as much as double the size of its latest catastrophe bond during the offering phase, with the target for the Mona Lisa Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance lifted to provide it between $325 million and $400 million in multi-peril catastrophe retrocessional reinsurance, sources have told Artemis.