Parametric reinsurance news

Prateek Singhal, Executive President & Head – Reinsurance at Howden India, believes that catastrophe bonds may be India’s “next shield”, emphasising the country’s need for instruments like cat bonds to protect its growing economy from climate risk.

The increasing diversity of risk transfer instruments and reinsurance capital sources, including insurance-linked securities (ILS), is a credit positive for the U.S. property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector that faces an evolving risk landscape and rising secondary peril losses, according to rating agency KBRA.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group, a provider of parametric disaster insurance products to countries and other entities in Africa, has made a combined parametric insurance payout of just over $5.4 million to support Mozambique’s response to the 2024/25 drought and to Tropical Cyclone Chido.

During a panel session earlier today at the ILS Bermuda Convergence 2025 conference, it was announced that the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) is currently in the final stages of implementing a new special purpose insurer (SPI) class that will primarily focus on the use of parametric triggers.

NormanMax, the expansive US based parametric insurance and reinsurance group with a pure-parametric syndicate at Lloyd’s, has hired reinsurance and retro broking specialist Nick Griffiths to take on the role of Chief Revenue Officer, working across all the firms’ platforms.

Vaisala, a global company that specialises in measurement instruments and intelligence for climate action, has appointed Lukas Schönach from Descartes Underwriting as European Commercial Lead for Weather Risk Management.

Willis, a business of broking group WTW, has launched a unique parametric insurance policy, designed in collaboration with Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, who will act as the insurer, which is introduced when a red weather warning is issued by the UK Met Office or Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service.

Arbol, a technology-led underwriter of parametric risk transfer, climate and weather insurance or reinsurance business, has launched a new parametric wildfire insurance product for commercial and residential properties in high-risk wildfire regions in the U.S., with coverage limits up to $10 million.

Global reinsurance giant Munich Re has provided the capacity to support a parametric wind proxy hedge risk transfer product, structured using a solution from kWh Analytics, for a 79MW, wind project in Virginia, developed by Apex Clean Energy.

As extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, closing the widening climate protection gap has never been more urgent. According to Elizabeth Henderson, Global Head of Climate Advisory at broker Aon, financial tools such as parametric insurance, catastrophe bonds, and public-private partnerships (P3) are critical towards building resilience and closing the gap.