Central Bank of Barbados Governor cites parametric and cat bond role in Caribbean resilience
Caribbean nations must stop defaulting to adding more debt as the answer after every disaster shock, instead layering the full range of risk transfer and financing tools to enhance liquidity following events and ensure timely, responsive capital flow, according to comments made by the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados. Speaking at the Caribbean […]
Cat bond market growth to continue, strong issuance expected again in 2026: Moody’s
The catastrophe bond market has become widely accepted as a reinsurance and risk transfer tool, and as the sponsor base increases while risk-adjusted returns for cat bond investors remains attractive, Moody’s Ratings said today it anticipates 2026 could be another busy year for insurance-linked securities (ILS). In a new report on the cat bond market, […]
CEA reinsurance tower stable, but catastrophe bonds grow their share
Following the mid-year reinsurance renewals the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) now sees catastrophe bonds making up an even larger proportion of its more than $7.83 billion risk transfer tower, at over 33% of the limit provided. The earthquake insurer had shrunk its overall reinsurance tower through the last couple of years, but at the same […]
Convergence alive and well as reinsurers increasingly lean on ILS products: Aon’s van Slooten
The convergence of reinsurance and capital markets is “alive and well”, as reinsurers increasingly lean on alternative capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS) products, Mike van Slooten from Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions division explained in a pre-Monte Carlo briefing today. Speaking during the briefing, as the reinsurance broker set out its positioning for its upcoming meetings at […]
Cat bond market growth to continue, strong issuance expected again in 2026: Moody’s
The catastrophe bond market has become widely accepted as a reinsurance and risk transfer tool, and as the sponsor base increases while risk-adjusted returns for cat bond investors remains attractive, Moody’s Ratings said today it anticipates 2026 could be another busy year for insurance-linked securities (ILS). In a new report on the cat bond market, […]
CEA reinsurance tower stable, but catastrophe bonds grow their share
Following the mid-year reinsurance renewals the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) now sees catastrophe bonds making up an even larger proportion of its more than $7.83 billion risk transfer tower, at over 33% of the limit provided. The earthquake insurer had shrunk its overall reinsurance tower through the last couple of years, but at the same […]