With a widening crisis protection gap evident around the world there is a need for a transformational expansion in the use of insurance and reinsurance mechanisms to transfer risks to the capital markets, according to a report from the High-Level Panel on Closing the Crisis Protection Gap.
The report calls for a tenfold increase in the proportion of international crisis finance that is pre-arranged by 2035.
Here, insurance and risk transfer are called out as examples of pre-arranged crisis financing that can serve to transfer financial risks away from public balance sheets, into the private and capital markets.
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