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Regular catastrophe bond sponsor, French reinsurer SCOR, are in the early stages of marketing the latest cat bond in their Atlas VI Capital Ltd. series of transactions. This will be their third cat bond through their Dublin, Ireland domiciled Atlas VI Capital SPV and their eighth cat bond in the Atlas series of deals (details […]

French reinsurer SCOR has officially announced the launch of their Atropos insurance-linked securities fund today. We’ve written about Atropos previously, you can find our earlier articles about this new ILS fund here, the fund actually launched on the 31st August and has since been marketed to investors but SCOR have today published a press release regarding […]

French reinsurer SCOR has now launched and begun marketing the insurance-linked securities fund which they first hinted at nearly a year ago, according to an investor presentation (PDF) which discusses the progress they are making with their ‘Strong Momentum’ strategic three year plan.

French reinsurer SCOR has announced that the net losses attributable to catastrophes during Q1 2011 have reached a sufficiently high level to trigger a payment under the terms of their natural catastrophe contingent capital facility (which we first wrote about last September). As a result SCOR have issued a €75m drawdown notice under the contingent […]

Bloomberg reports today that Scor the French reinsurer is targeting the longevity swap market by establishing a new team in London focused on capturing a portion of the longevity risk transfer sector. Longevity swaps are a growing area of risk transfer which allows pension schemes and insurers to hedge the risk of retirees living longer […]

SCOR has announced that it has finalised the launch of its new 3 year, €150m natural catastrophe coverage facility. The new facility takes the form of an event driven guaranteed equity as an innovative contingent capital solution. This new contingent capital arrangement extends the protection SCOR has from natural catastrophes (which include other reinsurance and […]

Atlas VI Capital Ltd. has completed it’s issuance of a Series 2010-1 tranche of notes on behalf of French re/insurer SCOR. The deal, which we wrote about previously here, started life as a €60m transaction when it was first marketed but closed at an upsized €75m (another issuance taking advantage of investor demand).

A new catastrophe bond issuance is being marketed by SCOR through their Dublin based SPV Atlas VI Capital Ltd. This is the second issuance under Atlas VI Capital Ltd. and follows the first Atlas VI issuance of €75m of catastrophe bond notes from SCOR in December 2009.

SCOR, the French reinsurer, have recently published their new strategic three year plan dubbed ‘Strong Momentum‘. A lot of the presentation which details the plan is devoted to SCOR Global Investments (SGI), their investment management arm and how they want to expand it and increase its contributions to group profits.

Scor has sought additional natural catastrophe cover from the capital markets through an innovative contingent capital transaction with UBS. The deal will provide Scor with an additional €150m of coverage for natural catastrophe risks. The facility will issue shares when Scor’s aggregated natural catastrophe losses cross a certain pre-determined threshold. Full press release below.