Cyber ILS – Cyber Insurance-Linked Securities news

The first more public cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS), or cyber catastrophe bond deal cannot be far away, panellists concluded at an ILS roundtable hosted by global reinsurance firm Munich Re in Monte Carlo this morning.

Many insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors remain hesitant about allocating capital to cyber insurance and reinsurance risks, which leads rating agency S&P Global to suggest growth of a cyber ILS market will likely be slow in the short to medium term.

Beazley has been investing time and effort in redesigning terms and conditions around its cyber insurance products, as it feels by better defining systemic cyber risks, it will help to give more confidence to capital to enter the sector, including from third-party or ILS investors.

The majority of insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers are interested in cyber re/insurance risk and are free from mandates prohibiting engagement, suggesting the ILS space is “quite ready to consume more cyber insurance risk,” according to Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS.

DeNexus, a specialist provider of software for cyber risk quantification for large industrial and critical infrastructure corporates, has chosen Switzerland as the home of its European operations, and hired two industry experts to establish a cyber centre of excellence in the region.

So long as deal economics are favourable and supported by a material sample of risk data, there’s an opportunity to pilot cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) solutions, according to specialist provider of software for cyber risk quantification for large industrial and critical infrastructure corporates, DeNexus.

The increased digitalisation and interconnectedness of the world has altered the risk profile of portfolios, meaning that insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds are already holding cyber risk, they’re just not getting paid for the exposure, according to DeNexus, a specialist provider of software for cyber risk quantification for large industrial and critical infrastructure corporates.

London headquartered insurance and reinsurance group Beazley has an opportunity in the cyber underwriting space to bring in third-party capital and this could deliver an additional upside to its earnings per-share, analysts at Jefferies have said.

The United States Department of Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) is seeking industry input and feedback on how available reinsurance and retrocession support from the capital markets may be for terrorism related risks.

The majority of insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers responded to a survey on non-affirmative cyber risk to say that they believe they have exposure in their ILS portfolios, according to PCS.