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Catastrophe risk software provider KatRisk has acquired RED, a specialist provider of catastrophe models, including earthquake, flood, landslide, and wind risk models.

Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) has now issued its April forecast update for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, reducing its extended range numbers from December and citing an expectation of moderate to strong El Nino conditions.

This new video features another panel discussion from Artemis ILS NYC 2026, a session focused on the cat bond marketplace, from our tenth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the ILS NYC series, held on February 6th 2026 in New York.

The Colorado State University (CSU) tropical meteorology team has issued its first forecast for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, calling for “somewhat below-normal” levels of activity, citing the potential for a robust El Niño and associated increases in vertical wind shear as key factors.

Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has published its second industry loss estimate for extratropical windstorm Goretti, also known as Elli, that affected southwestern England, northern France and Belgium in early January, placing the insurance market loss at EUR 479 million.

RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the third-party reinsurance capital management and insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit of the Bermuda-headquartered reinsurance firm, has promoted Roger Beach to Vice President in the Business Development and Investors Relations function.

CatIQ, Canada’s insured loss and exposure index provider, has issued its fifth and final industry loss estimate from the ice storm that struck Ontario and Quebec in late March 2025, putting the insured market loss at CAD $466 million, a 5% decrease from its fourth loss estimate of CAD $490 million that was issued in September.

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season will be shaped by shifting climate patterns in the Pacific, as a developing El Niño may influence and perhaps depress tropical storm formation, but a forecast from Accuweather highlights the potential for rapid intensification and warns of three to five direct storm impacts on the United States.

Extratropical windstorm Nils, also known as Ulrike, battered the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie regions in southwest France in mid-February, causing insurance industry losses of €586 million, according to an initial estimate from catastrophe data aggregator, PERILS.

Aon, the global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has expanded its Automated Event Response (AER) service to include US severe convective storms (SCS), further assisting carriers to manage losses from what Aon describes as the costliest insured peril of the 21st century on a cumulative basis.