ILS structural discipline can hold into Jan renewals: Jean-Louis Monnier, Swiss Re
As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space moves through the second half of 2025, a lighter period of catastrophe losses would still likely see hard-market discipline on structures and terms continue into the January renewals, according to Jean-Louis Monnier, Head of ILS at Swiss Re Capital Markets. Monnier leads ILS at Swiss read the full article →
Cat bonds may be India’s ‘next shield,’ says Prateek Singhal, Howden India
Prateek Singhal, Executive President & Head – Reinsurance at Howden India, believes that catastrophe bonds may be India’s “next shield”, emphasising the country’s need for instruments like cat bonds to protect its growing economy from climate risk. Readers may recall that there have been recent calls for India to develop its read the full article →
Property insurance rates decline again in Q3. Softer reinsurance still a contributor: Marsh
In the third-quarter of 2025, global property insurance rates accelerated their decline, with broker Marsh again highlighting increasingly favourable conditions for buyers, as the insurance market is increasingly influence by the softening of reinsurance pricing. In its latest report on global commercial insurance rates, Marsh explains that lower reinsurance pricing is read the full article →
TWIA committee recommends model weights to set PML for reinsurance & cat bond buying
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has made some progress in determining how much in reinsurance and catastrophe bonds it will buy in 2026, as its Actuarial & Underwriting Committee met yesterday in a lengthy meeting to select a weighting methodology for a blending of risk models to derive the read the full article →
Jamaica hurricane Melissa watch brings cat bond and parametric structures into focus
The government of Jamaica has raised a hurricane watch for what is currently tropical storm Melissa and with the National Hurricane Center warning that "significant strengthening is expected" and some forecast models showing a particularly intense storm nearing the island, it brings the country's World Bank catastrophe bond and parametric read the full article →
Catastrophe bonds – Sustaining momentum as relevance grows: Artemis London 2025 video
Our latest video features the second panel discussion of the day at Artemis London 2025, a session focused on the catastrophe bond market segment, from our fourth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the City of London, UK, held on September 2nd 2025. More than 220 attendees joined our read the full article →
FG Nexus to sell reinsurance arm to drive tokenized reinsurance growth
Fundamental Global Inc. (FG Nexus) has entered an agreement to sell a majority stake of its FG Reinsurance Division (FGRe) to Devondale Holdings LLC, led by renowned industry veteran Tom Heise. As part of the transaction, FG Nexus will reportedly receive $3.3 million cash, a $1.25 million note, and 40% equity read the full article →
Cyber war perception hindering capital and market growth: Johansmeyer at Convergence
Speaking at the 2025 Convergence event in Bermuda last week, Tom Johansmeyer, Global Head of Index Classes, at broker Price Forbes Re, made a notable claim, suggesting that the industry’s perception of cyber war is keeping capital away and hindering market growth. During a panel session, Johansmeyer argued that the fear read the full article →
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 →
