Fronting news

Enstar, one of the largest legacy and run-off reinsurance specialists in the world, has recently begun fronting for capital providers including insurance-linked securities managers and sees this new offering a diversifying solution for its toolkit and one it intends to selectively develop further, Anguel Zaprianov explained to Artemis in a recent interview.

While Hannover Re has expanded its range of insurance-linked securities services and facilitation, responding to market demand, the company sees collateralised fronting as the centrepiece of this capital market focused aspect of its global reinsurance operations, executives Silke Sehm and Patrick Horstmann told us in an interview.

The United States Court of Appeals has weighed in on a lawsuit regarding the Vesttoo fraud and the fake letters of credit (LOC) that underpinned reinsurance deals linked to the company, with a finding that could have some ramifications for brokers.

Hannover Re continued to grow the volumes of its activities as a key insurance-linked securities (ILS) market facilitator in 2025, with securitised reinsurance volumes expanding and collateral furnished for fronted ILS arrangements growing as well.

Hannover Re has reported its full-year 2025 results this morning, with a meaningful increase to net income and clear growth in property and casualty risks, while on the large loss side insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources ended up supporting roughly 20% of the large losses it experienced.

Global reinsurance giant Hannover Re reported its third-quarter and nine month results today and perhaps the most notable aspect of them for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) community is that the company has reported a slight shrinking in the amount of its large losses ceded to insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources.

Broking giant Aon and fronting specialist Clear Blue Insurance have put their trading relationship first to reach an out of court settlement in relation to a lawsuit over the reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) fraud perpetrated by insurtech Vesttoo, Artemis has been told by a number of market sources.

Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re remained over its large loss budget after the first-half of 2025, but the second-quarter was a far less impactful period than Q1 which resulted in the company only ceding EUR 21 million of natural catastrophe losses with insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources.

Strategic Risk Solutions, Inc., an independent provider of insurance, reinsurance and captive management and consulting services, has promoted long-standing employee Andrew Hupman as its new head of office for SRS Bermuda.

Hannover Re has reported going “significantly” above its large loss budget for the first-quarter of 2025 with the California wildfires the main driver at a cost of EUR 631 million, saying that it shared EUR 438 million of its large natural catastrophe losses with insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources during the period.