Afghanistan: Earthquake – Jun 2022
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), after the 5.9 M earthquake occurred on 21 June in Spera District (Khost Province, eastern Afghanistan), 1,039 people have died, 2,949 people have been injured and 4,500 houses have been partially or fully damaged across Paktika and Khost Provinces. The most affected Districts are Giyan, Barmal, and Ziruk […]
Index-based risk transfer essential to key societal issues: Speedwell Climate
Index-based risk transfer has a key societal role to play, in providing protection to support issues such as the renewable energy transition, covering extreme weather catastrophe events, and helping support access to scarce resources, newly renamed Speedwell Climate has said. Speedwell Weather Ltd. and its associated companies have been serving the need of parametric, or […]
CNN: Hundreds of thousands affected by floods, landslides as heaviest rain in 60 years hits southern China
(CNN) Almost half a million people have been affected by floods and landslides in the Chinese province of Guangdong, according to authorities, after parts of southern China were hit by the heaviest downpours in 60 years over the weekend. Flooding caused by the torrential rain has forced 177,600 people to relocate, destroyed 1,729 houses, damaged 27.13 […]
One Concern & WTW team to accelerate adoption of parametric insurance
One Concern, a resilience-as-a-service solutions provider with a focus on providing upfront information on potential financial impacts of climate related loss events, and broker plus advisor WTW, have teamed up with a goal to accelerate the adoption of parametric insurance solutions. As we’ve explained before, One Concern provides climate related analytics, but with a unique […]
Zambia’s ARC parametric drought insurance to payout US $5.3m
The African Risk Capacity (ARC) has paid out and already disbursed US $5.3 million to the Government of Zambia after the African nations parametric drought insurance coverage was triggered. A symbolic US $5.3 million cheque was presented to the Zambian Government by representatives of the African Risk Capacity Group and the African Development Bank, with […]
10th OECD/ADB Asian Regional Roundtable on Macroeconomic and Structural Policies
Description The OECD-AMRO-ADB/ADBI-ERIA Asian Regional Roundtable convenes leading experts to discuss issues at the fore of recent economic developments in the region. Previous roundtables were held in Singapore, Manila, Tokyo, Jakarta, and most recently virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent topics have included US spillovers to Asian economies, financial reform and financial inclusion, digital […]
ILS helps Hong Kong’s financial market diversify: Paul Chan
The passage of insurance-linked securities (ILS) legislation and now the successful issuance of a second catastrophe bond in the country, helps Hong Kong as it continues on its mission to further diversify its financial market and services sectors, according to Financial Secretary Paul Chan. With the recent completion of Hong Kong headquartered reinsurance firm Peak […]
K2 sees cat bonds as stand-out for growth. Price discipline drives spreads
Increased investor price discipline across insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked investments is helping to drive returns higher, but catastrophe bonds are the stand-out as the ILS market segment likely to grow in 2022, according to K2 Advisors. The investment research team of K2 Advisors, the hedge fund focused asset manager unit of investment firm […]
NZ Earthquake Commission grows reinsurance program to record size
Despite the hardening of global reinsurance markets, the New Zealand Earthquake Commission (EQC), the state-owned residential property disaster insurance entity, has expanded its reinsurance program to a record size of $7.2 billion of protection. A year ago, the New Zealand Earthquake Commission (EQC) said that its reinsurance tower provided almost $7 billion of coverage for […]
ILS gains attention as climate change felt around the world: HK IA’s Cheung
On announcing the completion of the second catastrophe bond issuance domiciled in Hong Kong, the Insurance Authority’s CEO Clement Cheung explained that insurance-linked securities (ILS) are a focus as they gain increasing attention. The Insurance Authority said that it welcomes the second issuance of insurance-linked securities (ILS) in Hong Kong. As we’ve been reporting for […]