Insurance technology, now known more widely as Insurtech, has the potential to bring significant efficiency & disruption to reinsurance, ILS & risk transfer markets.
Insurtech a hot trend with everyone from traditional reinsurance incumbents, as they seek to improve efficiency and stay ahead of the game, to brokers who are seeking to avoid disintermediation, to insurance-linked securities (ILS) players who see it as a way to enhance the efficiency of their capital even further.
The potential for Insurtech and Fintech initiatives to bring efficient capital, such as ILS capital and alternative reinsurance capital from third-party investors, more directly into contact with risk is huge. The opportunities to use technology to shorten and optimise the chain from original risk, to insurance, to reinsurance, to retrocession (or final capital source), will create winners and losers in the market, making this a trend to watch closely.
Descartes Underwriting, a specialist underwriter of parametric risk transfer opportunities, has unveiled a new parametric product suite for data centres, providing flexible capacity of up to $140 million per policy against natural perils that threaten timely completion of construction, commissioning, and ongoing service delivery.
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Jireh Risk Advisors Ltd., the insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused solution provider and Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS), an independent insurance manager, have launched OpIngen, which both firms describe as a next-generation operations service tailored for the reinsurance and ILS industry.
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Ledger Investing, the insurance technology (insurtech) and casualty ILS specialist, has announced the launch of Korra, a separate SaaS platform that aims to bring efficiency, transparency, and intelligence to the casualty reinsurance and insurance-linked securities market.
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Caterina Technologies, Inc., a quantitative applied research and development firm building financial technology infrastructure with its initial focus on the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector, has announced the hiring of senior Swiss Re ILS focused product and strategy leader Anthony Russo.
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Descartes Underwriting, the parametric risk transfer specialist, has adopted mea Platform’s artificial intelligence (AI) products to enhance automation and data orchestration across its underwriting processes.
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Descartes Underwriting, a specialist underwriter of parametric risk transfer opportunities, has joined the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) as a Supporting Member to help tackle climate risk.
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Fundamental Global Inc. (FG Nexus) has entered an agreement to sell a majority stake of its FG Reinsurance Division (FGRe) to Devondale Holdings LLC, led by renowned industry veteran Tom Heise.
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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.
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Oxbridge Re Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, has said that two tranches of tokenized reinsurance securities that fund its collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle for 2025 remain on-track to deliver attractive returns. But the prior year vintage of the tokens appears to have been impacted by losses due to hurricane Milton.
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Members Capital Management Limited (MembersCap), the Bermuda-regulated investment manager that seeks to bring reinsurance investing to a wider audience leveraging digital ledger technology, has become the first company to utilise the London Stock Exchange Group’s new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) platform.
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