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The completion of French reinsurer SCOR’s latest catastrophe bond deal, Atlas Reinsurance VII Limited, last week was it turns out a first for the market, according to financial law firm Walkers Ireland. Walkers Ireland acted as Irish legal and tax counsel, as well as listing agent for the transaction and it was the first cat […]

Horseshoe Group, an independent insurance manager and advisor with a focus on the insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond market is expanding its operations to Ireland which will give them a platform to expand their ILS and cat bond administration services into Europe more easily.

A piece of U.S. regulation has been highlighted as potentially having an impact on catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security issuing entities. The insight published in this memo from law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP discusses the FATCA provisions (FATCA stands for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2009), regulation which aims to reduce […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to propose new rules and amendments to the way ratings agencies conduct their business. The proposed rules, which the members of the SEC voted to put out for comments for sixty days to get feedback from interested parties, are intended to increase transparency and improve the […]

We often get asked at Artemis why catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security Special Purpose Vehicles (or special purpose insurers) are generally domiciled offshore. The Cayman Islands and Bermuda are the two domiciles of choice for the cat bond market, with the Cayman Islands currently leading the way, Dublin in Ireland has also domiciled a few […]

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) could look to become a domicile for insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds as a way for it to diversify away from relying on more traditional captive business, according to an article by James McConvill of Appleby Global (a provider of offshore legal and administrative services).

There’s an interesting article (may require login) on the FT.com website which discusses Guernsey and its ambitions to continue to be the leading captive domicile in Europe but to also broaden its scope to take more advantage of reinsurance and its convergence with the capital markets through alternative risk transfer.

The Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) has delivered its final advice documentation on the Solvency II Level 2 Implementing Measures. There’s a lot of documentation to read, some of which will be very relevant to our markets so it’s worth catching up on.