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 January 2021 reinsurance renewals were a more complex affair, which resulted in a trend to more non-concurrency in placements, according to broker Guy Carpenter. Which we believe suggests a need for the reinsurance market to embrace modernisation in the renewal process sooner, rather than later.
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The third insurance, reinsurance and insurtech focused Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC, from fixed income financial services focused investment firm Cohen & Company, LLC has now successfully completed an upsized $250 million initial public offering (IPO).
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Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. has entered the Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC marketplace, with a new insurance, reinsurance and insurtech focused company named Kairos Acquisition Corp. that will target raising $200 million or more in its initial public offering (IPO).
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Tremor Technologies, the insurtech offering a technology-based programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace, has now exceed $1 billion of limit placed, after it completed a renewal placement of W. R. Berkley’s property catastrophe reinsurance tower.
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Descartes Underwriting, the insurance technology (insurtech) focused managing general agency (MGA) that specialises in parametric and data-driven risk transfer products, has made a key hire in Daniel Vetter who will lead the firms expansion in North America.
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Fixed income financial services focused investment firm Cohen & Company, LLC has begun a capital raise for what will be its third insurance, reinsurance and insurtech focused Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC, named INSU Acquisition Corp. III.
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Insurance and reinsurance broker Aon said today that it is currently seeing a “demand surge” for parametric risk transfer products, as clients look for solutions that can rapidly deliver cash flow after loss events occur.
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Lockton Re, the reinsurance business of the privately held independent global broking giant, has integrated reinsurance marketplace functionality from Tremor Technologies as part of its client offering.
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The use of advanced technology and improvements in data and analytics to develop innovative parametric triggers is a stimulating proposition, both in the natural catastrophe space and beyond, according to Jonathan Clark, Head of Public Sector at reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter.
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INSU Acquisition Corp. II, the second insurance, reinsurance and insurtech investment focused Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) launched by fixed income financial services focused investment specialist Cohen & Company, LLC, is taking insurtech Metromile public in a deal that also sees ILS and reinsurance investment manager Hudson Structured participating.
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