Weather Risk Management

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) is set to further expand its range of weather risk transfer and hedging products with a plan to launch Wind Power futures and options based on indices provided by Vaisala Xweather later this year.

Global reinsurance giant Munich Re has promoted Pierre Buisson to the role of Head of Weather & Agro, where he will be based in Zurich, and collaborate with the reinsurer’s clients across Europe to better understand, manage, and hedge weather-related risks.

The Demex Group, a risk analytics and intelligence company that facilitates climate and catastrophe peril parametric reinsurance protection, has announced the launch of a new modelled-loss trigger winter storm reinsurance product for primary carriers.

The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) has now launched India’s first parametric weather derivative product, with the RAINMUMBAI contract expected to help market participants hedge the financial exposure of rainfall extremes and variability in the city of Mumbai and surrounding area.

Abaxx Technologies, a start-up financial software and market infrastructure company, has announced that Abaxx Exchange has expanded its suite of weather derivatives that it offers from wind to solar power, with German solar futures now available for trading.

Flood specialist JBA Risk Management has launched an enhanced version of its Global Flood Model, which introduces a variety of key features, such as enhanced hazard maps, a wide range of future climate event sets, and improvements to both processing speed and exposure disaggregation.

Abaxx Technologies, a start-up financial software and market infrastructure company, has launched the Enwex German Wind Futures on the Abaxx Exchange, which marks the introduction of a new suite of weather derivatives.

VivoPower, a sustainable energy solutions organisation, and KWeather, a climate risk management solutions company, have signed an exclusive heads of agreement deal that will see both firms collaborate to build the world’s first WeatherCoin, a weather derivative token for climate risk management.

Vaisala, a global company that specialises in measurement instruments and intelligence for climate action, has appointed Lukas Schönach from Descartes Underwriting as European Commercial Lead for Weather Risk Management.

NormanMax, the US based parametric insurance and reinsurance group with a pure-parametric syndicate at Lloyd’s, has hired Yong Li from reinsurer Swiss Re as its first President for Climate and Alternative Risk Solutions, bringing significant expertise in non-catastrophe weather risk transfer and trading to the firm.