cyber risk

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.

Specialist cyber focused underwriter CFC has announced that backing for its newly launched Lloyd’s Syndicate 1988 includes an insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund, a large pension fund, and also reinsurance firms based in Bermuda, Cayman and Japan.

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.

PCS, the provider of industry loss estimates and loss data globally, has launched its first non-loss reporting platform, Cyber RLM, which will provide users with unique insights into large insured cyber risks around the globe.

A new cyber business interruption insurance solution using parametric triggers related to outages has been launched at Lloyd’s with backing from Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) and other members of Lloyd’s Product Innovation Facility including reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe.

QOMPLX, an insurtech provider of intelligent decision platforms and operator of managing general agency’s (MGA), has launched US-based subsidiary MGA units named RubiQon Risk & Insurance Services and RubiQon Re, which will be led by sector veterans Conan Ward and Romel Salam.

As re/insurers struggle to find ways to manage their non-affirmative cyber exposures, there’s an opportunity for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) community to support an ILW-based retro market to address the issue, says Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS.

Cyber risk modelling company Kovrr has added new insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) expertise to its advisory board with the addition of John Butler, Head of Cohen & Company’s U.S. Insurance Asset Management Platform and Global ILS Program.

There is constant chatter about cyber insurance and reinsurance as a meaningful future component peril of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class, but so far little transactional flow has been seen. We spoke with Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, to get his view on the current status of cyber ILS.