ARTEMIS: The World Bank has “only scratched the surface” on what it can do with member governments that are looking to transfer some of their disaster risk to the reinsurance sector and the capital markets, according to Michael Bennett, Head of Derivatives & Structured Finance, World Bank Treasury.
The World Bank is an international organisation with 189 member governments. Through the use of both traditional reinsurance and the issuance of catastrophe bonds, a sub-sector of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, it helps its members transfer disaster risk to the markets.
The focus of the Treasury Department of the World Bank is often the tail-end of a broader engagement with a given member designed to assess and quantify their disaster risk.
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