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Parametric insurance has existed for at least three decades but continues to gain traction within the market as a way to secure insurance coverage in a responsive and effective manner.
Parametric insurance involves a risk transfer being structured with a parametric trigger that defines the payout occurrence, typically based on an event parameter, such as wind speed, or earthquake intensity.
Parametric insurance and parametric triggers are now utilised widely across multiple classes of business and innovative structures are launching all the time.
Insurtech Floodbase, which acts as a data provider and reporting agent for parametric risk transfer arrangements, is set to integrate 24/7, all-weather synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data into its flood solution, enhancing the coverage and granularity which can make parametric flood insurance and risk transfer triggers more accurate.
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The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has laid out its plans for 2024, with Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Craig Swan highlighting specific opportunities in parametric risk transfer for climate insurance.
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Speaking at the World Economic Forum event in Davos, Switzerland this week, Rafal Modrzewski, CEO and Co-Founder of ICEYE explained the important role satellite technology and the data it can collect has for the global insurance and reinsurance market, as well as societal resilience.
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FloodFlash, a flood risk focused insurtech company that offers an innovative sensor-based approach to parametric flood insurance, said that the current UK floods that have occurred after days of storms and heavy rainfall have seen waters rise to hit the parametric triggers for some of its policies.
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The CCRIF SPC (formerly known as the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility) made three payouts on parametric insurance policies to member governments from storms in the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, taking the total it has paid out to almost US $266.8 million since its inception.
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NormanMax Insurance Holdings, the US based parametric insurance and reinsurance group launched by New Paradigm co-founder Bradley Meier, is on-track to launch a dedicated parametric syndicate at Lloyd’s.
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The marketplace for parametric insurance and reinsurance is expected to remain stable in 2024, while activity levels are anticipated to be buoyant, according to broker WTW.
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Insurtech Floodbase, which acts as a data provider and reporting agent for parametric risk transfer arrangements, has partnered with commercial insurance and reinsurance broking group Oneglobal to develop parametric flood insurance solutions for the Asian region.
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New technologies can serve as a bridge between the re/insurance industry and the world’s most vulnerable, and alongside the use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and innovative solutions such as parametrics, can help to close the global protection gap, according to the Insurance Development Forum (IDF).
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AXA Climate, the specialist weather, climate and parametric risk transfer unit of the AXA Group, and broker Howden are working together to implement a parametric flood insurance arrangement in Togo, which is expected to cover three cities and over 700,000 inhabitants of them.
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