Third-party reinsurance capital news

It appears that, in aggregate, creditors to the bankruptcy of forged reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) linked insurtech Vesttoo have filed over $4.8 billion in claims against the company and its entities, which provides another signal of the ramifications of and amount of value the market feels has been lost due to the fraud.

R&Q Insurance Holdings Ltd., the specialty player that is planning a return to its original legacy insurance and reinsurance focus by selling its program business unit Accredited, has again spotlighted the importance of its legacy sidecar Gibson Re to the new strategic plan, but noted that access to third-party capital is critical.

As we reported recently, US headquartered insurance holding company W. R. Berkley Corporation has continued to expand its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle, which has been a key lever for the firm’s growth into property catastrophe risks at an attractive time in the cycle.

Global reinsurer Hannover Re is clearly expecting the benefits of the hard market environment to earn through in 2024, as it targets a 24% increase in net income next year, while key among strategic drivers for its new corporate plan for years 2024 through 2026 are the use of retrocession and ILS to expand its […]

At a recent event held in the city, speakers representing the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK SAR) of the People’s Republic of China were keen to promote the development of its insurance-linked securities (ILS) market offering and to attract more catastrophe bond business.

Today, we are delighted to reveal the first wave of speakers confirmed for our next insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference. ILS NYC 2024 will be held in New York City on February 9th 2024, with around 400 attendees from the ILS community expected to come together for a day of thought-leadership, discussion and valuable networking.

This video features an insightful panel discussion on ILS investment sentiment from our Artemis London 2023 catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference, that was held in London on September 5th 2023.

Vantage Risk, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance company, has plans to leverage third-party capital in a broader set of underwriting lines in future and now with over $1.5 billion of capital to deploy using its AdVantage collateralized insurer class of company, 2024 could be the year it expands into non-cat risk, Chris McKeown told […]

The Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of insurtech Vesttoo have filed a request with the court to allow them to conduct legal discovery on the main bank named in the letter of credit (LOC) reinsurance collateral fraud, China Construction Bank.

Artemis has learned that fronting specialist Clear Blue Insurance has filed a lawsuit against broking giant Aon, in relation to the reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) fraud perpetrated by insurtech Vesttoo.