contingent capital

France-headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR has renewed its capital markets-backed contingent capital facility, to provide a three-year source of up to €300 million of capital to support the company in the event of extreme natural catastrophe or mortality events.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched its first pilot disaster insurance scheme in the Philippines and has also approved a $500 million loan for the country that is contingent on a natural disaster or public health emergency occurring.

French reinsurance giant SCOR has established its fourth contingent capital facility, securing an EUR 300 million source of responsive capital coverage for natural catastrophe and extreme mortality events.

The islands of the Bahamas are to benefit from a $100 million contingent loan arrangement from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which will provide a source of liquidity after natural disasters and feature parametric triggers to activate loan disbursements.

Despite the significant catastrophe losses facing the reinsurance industry, French reinsurer SCOR has reported a profit for the first none months of 2017, as support from its retrocession providers helped the firm to better manage its losses.

Global reinsurance firm SCOR said that it expects the impacts of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria will likely remain an earnings, rather than capital event, and that it does not expect its contingent capital facility will be triggered as a result of the losses it will suffer.

French reinsurance company SCOR has announced the issuance of a new three-year contingent capital facility that will provide the company with EUR 300 million of cover against losses from natural catastrophe and extreme mortality events.

Rating agency Moody’s Investors Service expects that use of contingent capital securities, including contingent convertibles (CoCo’s) by insurance and reinsurance companies will increase as they are set to be considered as regulatory-efficient capital.

Lately the press is awash with stories about cyber risk, cyber insurance and the threat posed to companies by hackers, malware and exploits. The need for cyber insurance and reinsurance protection is clear, but with some suggesting $1 billion policies are required would the capacity be available?

Farmers Insurance Exchange (Farmers) has successfully renewed its $500 million catastrophe contingent surplus loan note facility for the third time. The facility provides Farmers with an option to access the capital markets following a major catastrophe event.