reinsurance

Global reinsurer SCOR said this morning it applied underwriting discipline at the “competitive” mid-year reinsurance renewals this year, growing in diversifying areas of the market, most notably in its alternative solutions business, while decreasing premiums written in non-cat US property lines, but remaining flat in US property catastrophe business.

Twelve Securis has reported that it does not expect any significant loss impact to the cat bond market from yesterday’s Kumamoto, Japan earthquake, while an assessment of its private ILS positions also does not suggest any material impact.

In light of HCI Group’s interest in taking risk on-chain and issuing tokenized reinsurance securities through a new partnership with Oxbridge Re, Chairman and CEO Paresh Patel has highlighted how tokenized reinsurance securities have the potential to expand access to the reinsurance market by lowering investment barriers and shortening investment duration.

Verisk, the data analytics and technology provider, has acquired McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), a geospatial intelligence and event response company that specialises in global real-time catastrophe and conflict event analysis.

Arch Capital Group, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance specialist, has promoted insurance-linked securities and retrocession operations specialist Bryan Lynch to the role of Head of ILS Experience and Operations.

After yesterday’s magnitude 6.8 earthquake in the Kumamoto prefecture of Japan a number of specialist insurance-linked securities investment managers have commented, with all analysis seen so far indicating this is currently viewed as unlikely to be a loss event of particular note for the catastrophe bond and ILS market.

Conduit Re appears to have made further enhancements to its retrocession program around the mid-year as its North Atlantic hurricane probable maximum loss fell further and the company disclosed increased core retro limit, aggregate cover and protection against second and third events.

AXIS Capital, the global specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter, reported another rise in fee income earned through strategic capital partner arrangements in the second-quarter of 2026, as insurance-linked securities and third-party capital activities continue to build and its Capacity Solutions capability contributes.

Broking group WTW has launched a new streamlined longevity swap solution called Longevity Stream, that’s set to broaden access to the expanding market for UK defined benefit schemes with £100m to £1bn of liabilities.

The secondary market for catastrophe bonds remained bid-heavy during the opening half of 2026, as an influx of market participants looked to buy bonds rather than sell out of their existing positions, which caused for secondary market activity to see a meaningful increase during the period following a relatively subdued 2025, according to Swiss Re […]