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The combining of Horseshoe Insurance Services Holdings Ltd. and Artex Risk Solutions operations positions them to create an “ILS center of excellence” according to Horseshoe CEO Andre Perez.

The United Nations, the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and leading global insurance and reinsurance firms are calling for the use of innovative risk transfer solutions, including parametric protection and catastrophe bonds, to protect World Heritage Sites.

The assessment and quantification of insurance and reinsurance market losses after typhoon Hagibis is to be complex and likely prolonged as a result, but there is a chance of some performance impact to private collateralised reinsurance deals, according to ILS investment manager Twelve Capital.

The eventual industry loss from typhoon Hagibis could reach the level seen with the other recent Japanese typhoon Faxai, while together the losses they bring to the industry may be enough to accelerate reinsurance rate rises in April 2020, according to KBW analysts.

Estera, a global provider of corporate, fund and trust services including to reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets, is branching out to add legal services to its offering from key locations Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

Specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager Plenum said that Japanese typhoon  Hagibis won’t be severe enough to trigger any cat bond losses and that any secondary market price impact will be short-lived.

Typhoon Hagibis has caused severe flooding, as well as some damage from its winds, across a wide swathe of Japan after the storm made landfall yesterday evening local time in Shizuoka prefecture and passed across the Tokyo metro area.

The “interior non-correlation” of insurance and reinsurance means that the ILS market can help capital flow more smoothly from end-to-end, while investors can access relative value thanks to the diversification within the sector, according to Michael Millette.

Japanese typhoon Hagibis will add “enormous complication” in allocating and finalising losses, while claims processes in Japan have likely not moved on since last year’s Jebi and its significant loss creep, according to the CEO of reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe.

AXA XL, the global specialty insurance and reinsurance unit of the AXA Group, continues to work on initiatives related to climate risk and our oceans, with one area of work being pursued an Ocean Risk Index that could be used for risk transfer.