China’s insurance regulator has called on insurers in the country to look to sponsor catastrophe bonds in Hong Kong as a way to access diversified sources of reinsurance capacity and offload peak natural catastrophe risks.
The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) said in a notice that domestic Chinese insurers sponsoring catastrophe bonds out of Hong Kong will be supporting its “closer” economic partnership agreement between the country and the Special Administrative Region.
As we’ve explained before, China’s government has been supportive of the development and introduction of catastrophe bond rules in Hong Kong and sees the special purpose reinsurance vehicles that can now be established there as a route for mainland Chinese insurers to access the capital markets for risk transfer and reinsurance purposes.
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