cyber ILW

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.

As conversations around cybersecurity and risk management increasingly occur at the board level, insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors and reinsurers should be excited, but must tread quickly and wisely, according to Thomas Nuth, Vice President of Marketing at DeNexus.

In the second in a series of sponsor showcase video interviews for the upcoming Artemis ILS NYC 2022 conference (held April 22nd in New York City), we welcomed Thomas Nuth, the Vice President of Marketing at DeNexus, one of our Bronze sponsors for the conference.

Michael Millette, Managing Partner at insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance and transportation investment manager Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., has explained that without credible modelling, a cyber ILS market is unlikely to develop as capital won’t want to support the risk unless it has a better understanding of it.

Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has announced the hire of a dedicated cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) resource, adding Theo Norris from Aon Securities as a resource to help bring new capacity to the cyber market.

For our latest Artemis Live video interview, we were joined by Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS to discuss the subject of cyber risk and ask the question, why isn’t it a bigger exposure in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market?

The development of a robust cyber retrocessional reinsurance market and the use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) or alternative capital, would help the cyber insurance market with its capital management and make much-needed capacity available, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Envelop Risk, a company that had a managing general agency (MGA) and data driven approach to providing cyber risk analysis and reinsurance underwriting products has raised a significant $130 million Series B financing led by major investor SoftBank and now targets becoming a risk taker as well.

Underwriting of cyber insurance and reinsurance risks is going to require “massive amounts of additional capital” to support what is expected to be a particularly fast-growing class of business, according to broker Gallagher Re’s Ian Newman.

Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., which enters into insurance and reinsurance investment business as HSCM Bermuda, has teamed up with broking powerhouse Aon for a new cyber catastrophe coverage product, that can cover systemic cyber risks for insurance and reinsurance ceding companies.