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 Tullett Prebon operated Insurance Linked Notes (ILN) platform has successfully completed its second issuance and settlement of catastrophe risk linked notes, with a $7 million Turkish earthquake exposed industry loss deal transacted with capital market investors.
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Jon Hancock, the Lloyd’s of London insurance and reinsurance market’s Performance Management Director is to step down in 2020 with no replacement for his position currently named.
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Tremor Technologies Inc., the programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace provider, believes that through the use of technology such as its own the reinsurance placement process can be made much faster and more accurate, with better outcomes possible for both sides of the deal.
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Indices designed to facilitate the trading of weather risks related to wind power have now been added to weatherXchange, the parametric weather risk transfer platform operated by specialist Speedwell Weather.
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Price inflation is both present and substantial in reinsurance program placements, as the traditional process of a brokered execution can result in misaligned market incentives, according to programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace insurtech Tremor Technologies Inc.
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The use-cases for parametric triggers in insurance and reinsurance continue to expand, as parametric coverage gains in popularity and technology and data advances make more complex products possible, as evidenced by a recent launch from QOMPLX and Chaucer.
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Tremor Technologies Inc., the programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace provider, has successfully brought $600 million of capacity to, priced and placed the property catastrophe reinsurance program renewal of carrier W. R. Berkley Corporation.
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How much does it cost to strategise, design and implement a healthy and sustainable future for the Lloyd’s of London insurance and reinsurance market? UK £300 million, at least, it seems.
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As Lloyd’s of London seeks to develop initiatives to attract more third-party, ILS and alternative reinsurance capital to it, rating agency A.M. Best warns of a number of considerations it feels are key for the market to consider.
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The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is being urged to explore the use of parametric triggers as well as insurance-linked securities (ILS) to help drive increased insurance penetration for flood and other natural hazards and enable better financed disaster recovery.
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