flood reinsurance

The UK government’s planned state-backed flood reinsurance pool, Flood Re, has published a tender for retrocessional reinsurance broker services, detailing that it is open to alternative risk transfer or alternative (capital) market solutions.

The UK’s planned state-backed flood reinsurance pool, Flood Re, could leave UK insurance companies more exposed than before as the facility relies on the government keeping its promises on flood defenses and could raise exposure to climate change, said S&P.