Insurance linked securities news, ILS news

We’re hosting a live webcast on September 10th 2020, featuring senior reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market executives discussing the state of play and the outlook for 2021.

Nephila Capital, the world’s largest ILS and reinsurance fund manager, is to provide weather risk capacity to support The Demex Group, a climate risk focused insurtech start-up, as it comes out of stealth with a mission to provide financial risk solutions to deliver greater climate resilience.

Global reinsurance firm Munich Re has appointed René Mück as its new Head of Capital Partners, Americas, the division where much of its risk trading, insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bond and retrocession activities take place.

Cayman Islands based reinsurance firm Oxbridge Re Ltd. has renewed its fully-collateralised reinsurance sidecar vehicle Oxbridge Re NS Ltd. for 2020 at a downsized amount of just $216,000.

Catastrophe risk modelling specialist RMS has updated its suite of HWind hurricane forecasting products, which are part of the RMS HWind Real-Time Analysis solution.

As Singapore evolves as an insurance-linked securities (ILS) domicile and enables regulatory, legal and tax changes, the ability of the region to facilitate ILS in all forms will attract a growing number of new sponsors, according to industry experts.

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance player, elected to let one of its catastrophe bonds expire without renewal this year, as it shifted its focus to buying more reinsurance lower-down in the tower to reduce its PML’s.

The South American nation of Brazil is the latest to target the creation of a framework for legislation and a regulatory regime to allow for the issuance of insurance-linked securities (ILS) in the country, as it looks to ILS as a possible avenue to help its growing re/insurance industry further expand.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 9th August 2020, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

Integral ILS Ltd., the start-up Bermuda based insurance-linked securities fund manager run by well-known industry execs Richard Lowther and Lixin Zeng, has registered its special purpose insurer (SPI) underwriting vehicle.