climate risk

Arbol, a technology-led underwriter of parametric risk transfer, climate and weather insurance or reinsurance business, has announced another key hire, appointing Jeffrey Khoo to lead its Asia Pacific expansion plans.

The Demex Group, a climate risk focused insurtech that aims to deliver climate-resilience through financial risk solutions on a global scale, has made a key hire, appointing Matt Coleman who most recently worked at Nephila Climate as its Chief Risk Officer.

Arbol, a technology-led underwriter of parametric risk transfer, climate and weather insurance business, has partnered with Singapore based insurer Singlife with Aviva to provide it a parametric rainfall insurance product for travellers.

Technology-led underwriter of parametric risk transfer, climate and weather insurance business, Arbol, has today reported that it transacted more than $100 million in gross written premium (GWP) in the first half of 2022.

The Demex Group, a climate risk focused insurtech that aims to deliver climate-resilience through financial risk solutions on a global scale, has launched new parametric snow insurance covers that are financially supported through derivatives agreements with ILS fund manager Nephila Capital, as well as new reinsurance agreements.

Building on last year’s launch of a solution to help corporations better manage climate risk and climate change exposure, with the help of parametric risk transfer to captive insurance structures, Arbol has now launched a new climate risk focused parametric insurance captive in Connecticut.

After meeting in Germany this week, the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries have committed to scaling up climate and disaster risk financing and insurance efforts.

Insurance and reinsurance broker Aon is embedding climate change considerations into its Impact Forecasting flood catastrophe risk models for Europe, thanks to a collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Gallagher Re, the reinsurance broking arm of the broader Gallagher group, has announced the hiring of Antoine Bavandi who joins the company from the World Bank to lead a new practice focused on the public sector, parametric risk transfer & climate resilience solutions.

One Concern, a resilience-as-a-service solutions provider with a focus on providing upfront information on potential financial impacts of climate related loss events, and broker plus advisor WTW, have teamed up with a goal to accelerate the adoption of parametric insurance solutions.