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.
The global insurance and reinsurance market may be seeing improved profitability and premium growth, but global consultancy Bain & Company believes gains are “largely cyclical and mask unresolved challenges” while the future winners are expected to be those that lower the cost of risk and expand access to coverage.
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Against the softening property catastrophe market, casualty remains the most focal alternative within the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, but also the hardest to successfully close, according to Ledger Investing, who reports that while capital is actively seeking diversification, casualty rate adequacy remains intact, and the market is working deliberately to standardise.
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Oxbridge Re Holdings Ltd., the Cayman Islands-based reinsurance company, along with its subsidiary SurancePlus, has successfully closed five private placements of tokenized reinsurance securities on Solana blockchain, with total gross proceeds of combined offerings amounting to approximately $7.1 million.
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The Demex Group, a risk analytics and intelligence company that facilitates climate and catastrophe peril parametric reinsurance protection, has announced the launch of a new modelled-loss trigger winter storm reinsurance product for primary carriers.
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Oxbridge Re Holdings Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, alongside its subsidiary SurancePlus, has announced annualised returns of 29.3% and 43.4% for investors in its 2025- 2026 EtaCat Re and ZetaCat Re tokenized reinsurance offerings, which has exceeded their original respective target returns of 20% and 42%.
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HCI Group, Inc., the insurance holding company, is tapping into the wave of interest in taking risk on-chain and issuing tokenized reinsurance securities as a way to access risk capital through a partnership with Oxbridge Re, that sees three tokens being offered to support risks held by its recently formed reinsurer Fortex Re.
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Buckle, now a fronting specialist for MGA programs and previously a rideshare and gig insurance company, has become the latest to reveal issues caused by fraudulent reinsurance letters of credit linked to Vesttoo and is now suing the purported LOC provider China Construction Bank for damages.
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After helping Schroders Capital and global reinsurer Hannover Re launch their pilot tokenisation project in 2024, i.AM Innovation Lab has used the lessons it learned to help both companies’ integration of a tokenised capability into its insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment platform, which in time will help open the door to broader investor access.
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AkinovA, the technology-led re/insurance platform focused on expanding access to underwriting capital for large corporate risks, including via capital markets participation, has appointed Matthew Gilpin as Group Chief Operating Officer (COO).
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Schroders Capital’s Private Debt & Credit Alternatives (PDCA) team, together with global reinsurer Hannover Re, have unveiled the integration of an innovative tokenised capability into its insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment platform, which includes the execution of the first real-world collateralized reinsurance transaction through this platform.
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