When it comes to ESG, governance should be a given in ILS: Albertini
For the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, the ‘G’, or governance, within ESG, should always have been a given, as the industry needs to have strong governance around its underwriting practices, Luca Albertini, CEO of Leadenhall Capital Partners explained to Artemis. ESG, or environmental, social and governance has become one of the hottest topics in the […]
Barbados embeds parametric nat cat clause in sovereign bond issue
The Caribbean island nation of Barbados is one of the first in the world we’ve heard of to embed a parametric natural catastrophe event trigger within a sovereign bond issuance, with the occurrence of a natural disaster able to trigger a deferral of payments to holders of the dollar-denominated bond. Interestingly, Barbados has elected to […]
Hong Kong to step up ILS ecosystem promotional efforts
Hong Kong’s Insurance Authority (IA) is set to increase its efforts to promote its nascent insurance-linked securities (ILS) framework and attract more catastrophe bond or ILS issuance activity to the country. The Insurance Authority (IA) has been promoting Hong Kong’s ILS framework for a number of years now, with two catastrophe bonds issued there so […]
