Hurricane Melissa estimated single-digit billion insured loss. Cat bond payout likely: Aon

In the weekly Impact Forecasting report from Aon, the company said that major hurricane Melissa’s impacts on Jamaica are likely to drive economic and insured losses into the single-digit billions of dollars, while also confirming parametric structures are likely to respond due to the storms severity. The insurance and reinsurance broker explained that, for Jamaica, […]

Economic impact of Melissa could reach 30–250% of Jamaica’s GDP: BMS

BMS has warned that the total economic impact of Hurricane Melissa could reach 30–250% of Jamaica’s GDP, potentially triggering a deep recession, widespread unemployment, a sharp decline in tourism, and severe strain on local banks and insurers, placing heavy pressure on public borrowing to fund recovery efforts. After making landfall near Crawford, Jamaica, BMS said […]

Jamaica’s cat bond “doing what it was designed to do” – Lefferdink, Aon Securities

As the catastrophe bond market awaits an official determination on the potential payout of Jamaica’s $150 million IBRD CAR Jamaica 2024 parametric cat bond after hurricane Melissa, a representative of one of the deal’s structuring agents has said that early signs are that the cat bond structure is “doing what it was designed to do.” Chris Lefferdink, […]

Melissa insured impacts in the billions. Jamaica cat bond full loss most likely: Twelve Securis

The global insurance and reinsurance industry is facing losses in the billions of dollars after major hurricane Melissa’s devastating landfall and passage across Jamaica, while the country’s $150 million IBRD CAR Jamaica 2024 parametric catastrophe bond is likely to face a full loss, ILS investment manager Twelve Securis has said. In a post-event report, specialist catastrophe bond […]

Hurricane Melissa crosses Jamaica cat bond parametric boxes at 892mb, 100% payout likely

Major hurricane Melissa has intensified further to sustained winds of 185 mph and its minimum central pressure has now deepened to 892mb, which with the storm’s eye now well into the parametric boxes of Jamaica’s $150 million IBRD CAR Jamaica 2024 catastrophe bond suggests a 100% payout of principal is likely. Melissa is now close enough to […]

Hurricane Melissa nears Jamaica. Cat bond, parametrics can provide valuable recovery finance

As major hurricane Melissa bears down on the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica, the significant intensity of the storm could activate the country’s parametric catastrophe bond and insurance protection triggers which, should they pay out, will provide a valuable source of financial liquidity and recovery funding at a particularly challenging time for the country. Hurricane […]

Cat bonds may be India’s ‘next shield,’ says Prateek Singhal, Howden India

Prateek Singhal, Executive President & Head – Reinsurance at Howden India, believes that catastrophe bonds may be India’s “next shield”, emphasising the country’s need for instruments like cat bonds to protect its growing economy from climate risk. Readers may recall that there have been recent calls for India to develop its own regulatory framework for insurance-linked […]

Banks could turn to cat bonds to hedge their climate risks: ADBI

A new paper authored by Sayuri Shirai, ADBI Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), explores how banks can utilise catastrophe bonds and puts forward an interesting suggestion, that as sponsors or co-sponsors, banks could bundle the climate exposure from their other assets into cat bonds to hedge against growing climate risks. The report […]