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Reask, a tech company that provides catastrophe modelling, climate analytics and data using machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence, is set to expand to the United States and will use the now $6.55 million seed funding it has accumulated, as it looks to expand its extreme weather modelling services.

Skyline Partners, a UK-based insurtech managing general agent (MGA) focused on parametric insurance and risk transfer has announced a partnership with satellite and space data specialists Spire Global, as it looks to bring satellite observations into the triggers for its parametric products and to expand its product offering to new lines of business.

Two competing factors are set to drive conversations during the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as risk. But there are other important areas insurance, reinsurance and ILS market interests should remain alert to, according to Jeff Waters of Moody’s RMS.

Mitiga Solutions, the risk modeller and calculation agent behind the Danish Red Cross volcano catastrophe bond, has announced a €13.25 million Series A capital raise, to fund its continued development and expansion.

Catastrophe risk modeller Moody’s RMS is integrating Nasdaq’s Risk Modelling for Catastrophes (NRMC) service into its Intelligent Risk Platform, providing consolidated access to more than 300 risk models.

When it comes to underwriting cyber risks, capital, whether traditional insurance and reinsurance, or alternative from the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, “has to be rewarded”, Matt Harrison from risk modelling and analytics specialist Moody’s RMS, told us in our latest Artemis Live interview.

DeNexus, a specialist provider of cyber risk quantification tools and software, has updated its main cyber risk modelling platform, saying that it aims to give greater confidence to both reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets when it comes to understanding cyber risks.

Insurance and reinsurance market losses from the severe convective storm (SCS) peril in Europe are starting to run a little ahead of losses from the more widely accepted European peak peril of extratropical windstorms, according to data from Aon’s Impact Forecasting.

As we move into 2023, the cyber insurance linked securities (ILS) market is expected to see real traction, as demand for capacity continues to outstrip supply, while data and models are improving, according to Brittany Baker, Vice President of Solution Consulting, CyberCube.

Fermat Capital Management, one of the largest specialist investment managers of catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets, has licensed the Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) HurLoss hurricane model, as it seeks to add new insights from additional views of risk.