Private cat bond news

The global market for catastrophe bond issuance slowed down dramatically in the third-quarter of 2022, resulting in below-average issuance for the period. But still the outstanding cat bond market stands $4.7 billion bigger than at the same time a year earlier, Artemis’ latest quarterly report shows.

Eclipse Re Ltd., a private syndicated collateralised reinsurance note, private catastrophe bond issuance and reinsurance transformer platform owned and operated by Artex Capital Solutions, has completed two more issuances of private cat bond notes, totalling $76 million of new risk capital issued.

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.