Banks could turn to cat bonds to hedge their climate risks: ADBI
A new paper authored by Sayuri Shirai, ADBI Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), explores how banks can utilise catastrophe bonds and puts forward an interesting suggestion, that as sponsors or co-sponsors, banks could bundle the climate exposure from their other assets into cat bonds to hedge against read the full article →
Covéa still targets €200m Hexagon IV Re 2025-1 cat bond, but at lower pricing
Covéa Group, the French mutual insurer, continues to target €200 million in fully-collateralized reinsurance protection with its new Hexagon IV Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond issuance, but the price guidance for each of the two tranches of notes on offer has now been lowered, Artemis understands. Covéa Group returned to read the full article →
One William Street Capital sponsoring $125m Meadows Ltd. named storm cat bond
A new catastrophe bond is being offered to investors that has a subsidiary of investment firm One William Street Capital Management, L.P. as its ceding company or sponsor, with the Meadows Ltd. (Series 2025-1) designed to provide $125 million or more in US named storm protection, Artemis has learned. This new read the full article →
Increasing diversity of risk transfer and capital sources is credit positive: KBRA
The increasing diversity of risk transfer instruments and reinsurance capital sources, including insurance-linked securities (ILS), is a credit positive for the U.S. property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector that faces an evolving risk landscape and rising secondary peril losses, according to rating agency KBRA. Insurance markets faced by severe and more read the full article →
Artex Capital Solutions hires Sikuku from Aon to join UK team focused on ILS transformation
Artex Capital Solutions, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market service provider arm of Artex Risk Solutions, has hired Paul Sikuku from Aon to lead its UK Insurance Management Client Service team and work with a range of insurance-linked securities (ILS) clients on risk transformation. Sikuku will be based in London. As Client read the full article →
Amazon AWS outage not a catastrophe for parametric cyber (or Cumulus cat bond): Parametrix
This week's Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage may have cost billions in lost opportunity and downtime for technology and internet services around the world and could trigger some cyber insurance policies, but it was not significant enough to be considered a Catastrophic Event, Parametrix has told us. Thousands of companies were read the full article →
APRA refines proposals on cat bonds and ILS, including removing reinstatement requirement
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is moving forward with its process to ease access to alternative reinsurance solutions in the country, including insurance-linked securities (ILS), with one updated proposal now being to remove the requirement for a reinstatement completely for instruments like catastrophe bonds. As we reported back in November 2024, read the full article →
Sidecars, third-party capital in focus as emphasis on capital management grows: BlackRock
Some 67% of insurers and reinsurers surveyed by investment giant BlackRock said they intend to utilise reinsurance sidecars over the coming year, while 54% expect to increase their use of third-party capital sources, underscoring the continued push to more efficient management of capital in the sector. The finding's also reflect the read the full article →
Hannover Re facilitates $15m LI Re 2025-2 private cat bond via Kaith Re
A new private catastrophe bond has been issued by German reinsurance company Hannover Re’s Bermuda-based structure Kaith Re Ltd., with $15 million of LI Re (Series 2025-2) notes issued to support what is assumed to be a privately placed collateralized and securitized catastrophe reinsurance arrangement for an unknown sponsor. Notably, this read the full article →
Fortitude/Carlyle FCA Re life/annuity sidecar funded to $700m+
The newly launched Fortitude Carlyle Asia Reinsurance, Ltd. (FCA Re) reinsurance sidecar, a joint initiative between Fortitude Re and global investment firm Carlyle, has been capitalised with more than $700 million in deployable capital from a range of investors. Earlier today, the firms announced the creation of this new reinsurance sidecar read the full article →
