prediction markets

Kalshi, the prediction market platform, has entered into a strategic partnership with The Weather Company, a leading weather provider, to expand and support the growing weather hedging activity on its platform through provision of settlement data.

Interactive Brokers’ ForecastEx platform, which allows investors to buy ‘yes’ or ‘no’ contracts based on stated outcomes for specific indicators, is currently seeing temperature contracts as the most frequently traded on the platform, according to the firm’s founder and chairman Thomas Peterffy.

Following the launch of Interactive Brokers’ ForecastEx platform, which allows investors to buy ‘yes’ or ‘no’ contracts based on stated outcomes for specific indicators, Artemis spoke to Patrick Brown, Head of Climate Analytics at the firm, about how these contracts allow investors to access risk-linked returns, as well as some of the key advantages they […]

Through its corporate foundation, France-headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR is backing a climate prediction market initiative named CRUCIAL (The Climate Risk and Uncertainty Collective Intelligence Laboratory) that looks to produce collective expert forecasts of climate-related risks.

Today saw the relaunch of the much anticipated Hurricane Risk Landfall Options (HuRLOTM) from Weather Risk Solutions, LLC. We wrote about HuRLOs when they launched as a pilot back in October 2008 with much anticipation of the full launch as they offer an easily accessible method to hedge against landfalling hurricanes. Trading opens today on […]

A very interesting new hurricane risk instrument has come to light today in a press release from Weather Risk Solutions, LLC (WRS). The full press release is available here. HuRLOs are Hurricane Risk Landfall Options, a new derivative product devised by WRS which will begin trading on October 7th using their electronic trading platform and […]