insurance securitization

Ledger Investing, the insurance technology (insurtech) and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused venture-backed company, has appointed former AIG CEO Peter Hancock to its Board of Directors and also hired ILS executive Rajiv Punja as its Chief Investment Officer.

Catastrophe bond issuance reached record levels in 2020 and the busy year was topped-off with a record fourth-quarter as well, as the market demonstrated its resilience and ability to expand its relevance even under ongoing pandemic conditions, according to the latest report and data from Artemis.

According to rating agency Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), the now approved updated business plan for ILS Capital Management’s reinsurance company Prospero Re Ltd., which allows it to write both fully collateralized and traditional reinsurance with an element of leverage, does not warrant any change to the vehicles rating.

ILS Capital Management Ltd. has now received approval from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) for an expansion of the operating model of its reinsurance company Prospero Re Ltd., which can now write both fully collateralized and traditional reinsurance with an element of leverage.

The catastrophe bond market saw continued positive momentum throughout the third-quarter of 2020 and despite continued financial market uncertainty and volatility as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the result was an above-average quarter of issuance, according to the latest report and data from Artemis.

Multiplicity Partners, a boutique Zurich-based investment firm that specialises in secondary opportunities and providing liquidity solutions to holders of private market funds and distressed assets, is targeting the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space and wants to offer a solution to those experiencing trapped ILS collateral.

Ledger Investing, an insurance technology (insurtech) and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused venture-backed start-up, has announced raising a $10 million Series A round, as it looks to scale-up its platform and broaden the world of insurance securitization.

Ledger Investing, an insurance technology (insurtech) and insurance-linked securities (ILS) venture-backed start-up, has made a key hire in taking AIG’s Chief Risk Officer for North America General Insurance, Brad Fischtrom as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO).

ILS Capital Management Ltd., a Bermuda headquartered ILS fund and reinsurance investment manager, has successfully completed a landmark securitisation that reduces the level of trapped capital affecting its ILS funds and returns capital to investors, seeing it as the first ever securitisation of trapped ILS capital.

Around six weeks into a joint collaboration to offer insurers and reinsurers a new collateralised whole-account reinsurance offering backed by insurance-linked securities (ILS), Hyperion X and Vario Partners LLP told us they are seeing significant interest.