First $20bn catastrophe bond year now in sight for 144A & private issuance tracked by Artemis

With the catastrophe bond market pipeline growing for the fourth-quarter, Artemis is on course to track its first $20 billion year of issuance in 2025, as our extensive and long-standing data set of Rule 144A and private cat bond transactions now has that milestone in sight.

The $20 billion of issuance in a single calendar year milestone will set a meaningful new benchmark for the catastrophe bond market.

It’s now almost 29 years since we began collecting information on catastrophe bond issuances, having seen our first in December 1996 and attempted to track every deal we can source details of since.

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