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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending October 5th 2025, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to grow, its role in addressing the widening protection gap is coming into sharper focus, with Holly Turner, Climate Specialist at Schroders Capital, suggesting that every ILS transaction can help address this goal.

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) is now projecting that the amount of reinsurance and catastrophe bonds it may require for the 2026 wind season could be roughly 46% lower than this year’s program, with $2.3 billion of limit the current forecast.

AM Best has updated its rating outlooks for RenaissanceRe and its subsidiaries, now seeing the reinsurance firm’s prospects as positive, rather than stable, citing improved performance, a more balanced business due to diversification, and of course the firm’s ability to attract third-party capital through joint-ventures and ILS partnerships.

Aon, the global professional services, insurance and reinsurance broking firm, has announced that Anshuman Srivastava has been appointed to the role of Reinsurance global chief broking officer.

The overall yield of the catastrophe bond market declined further in September 2025, as seasonal spread tightening continued to be the major factor affecting that metric, with insurance risk spreads, or the cat bond market discount margin, now back at levels seen around the same stage of the year in 2021.

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.

Augment Risk, the risk capital and reinsurance solutions broking firm, has teamed with Cohen & Company, an asset management specialist, to launch a casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) facility.

Issuance of catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) was above-average at $1.036 billion in the third-quarter of 2025, lifting annual issuance to $18.6 billion at the end of the period. Which puts this year well on-track to surpass the $20 billion mark for the first time ever, Artemis’ new quarterly cat bond market report […]

Over the next year, a vast majority of reinsurance buyers expect attachment points for their excess of loss programs to remain stable. Many also indicated interest in purchasing more aggregate reinsurance in 2026 and additional tail-risk coverage during the year, the latest survey by Moody’s Ratings shows.