Private cat bond news

Aon’s private catastrophe bond issuance and placement platform Randolph Re has completed a $25 million Randolph Re (Series 2022-1) private cat bond deal, the third from the issuer and we suspect again for California headquartered property casualty insurer Mercury Insurance.

The maturity dates have been extended again for some of the Seaside Re private catastrophe bond transactions that were issued by German reinsurance firm Hannover Re’s segregated accounts vehicle, Kaith Re Ltd., while two series of previously extended notes have now been allowed to mature.

The global market for catastrophe bonds expanded by almost 2% during the second-quarter of 2022, as demand from sponsors drove strong issuance and helped to grow the outstanding cat bond market to $38.2 billion at June 30th 2022.

Isosceles Insurance Ltd., the Bermuda-domiciled private insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond platform operated by Marsh McLennan and reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, has completed the issuance of three new series of cat bond notes, totalling $90.5 million of capital markets backed capacity secured for clients.

Demand for reinsurance and retrocessional protection from cedants, as well as a slew of new first time market entrant sponsors, have helped the global catastrophe bond market execute on $5.1 billion of new issuance in the second-quarter of 2022, according to Artemis’ latest quarterly report.

Eclipse Re Ltd., the Artex-managed and operated private syndicated collateralised reinsurance note, private catastrophe bond issuance and reinsurance transformer platform, has completed the issuance of an $8.73 million Eclipse Re Ltd. (Series 2022-2A) transaction in recent days.

Artex Risk Solutions’ segregated account reinsurance transformer platform, Artex SAC Limited, has completed another new private catastrophe bond issuance, with a $100 million Artex SAC Limited – Bricolage Notes transaction placed privately with qualified investors.

Issuance of new catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) has already surpassed $5.1 billion in 2022 and there are already another nearly $2.2 billion in the pipeline that could complete before the middle of the year.

Two tranches of privately placed catastrophe bond notes from the $250 million Artex SAC Limited – Aquarelle Notes transaction that came to market in 2021 and was thought to be the largest private cat bond ever, have been through a variable reset process at the request of the ceding insurer.

On the heels of a record year for property catastrophe bond issuance, momentum continued in the first quarter of 2022 as sponsors brought approximately $3 billion of traditional 144a transactions to market.