EIB and WFP launch parametric insurance scheme to protect Ethiopian smallholder farmers
The European Investment Bank (EIB), through its development arm EIB Global, is issuing a grant of up to €4 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), which will be used to support the development and rollout of parametric insurance products to protect smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. According to the announcement, roughly 210,000 smallholder […]
ILS and broader securitisation key to absorbing nat cat risk: Schroders Capital
The increasing need for capital to manage and mitigate natural hazard risk is creating strong opportunities for investors, according to Schroders Capital, who emphasises that by allocating to catastrophe risk through insurance-linked securities, broader securitisation, and other risk-transfer markets, investors can secure attractive returns by absorbing catastrophe risk when pricing reflects expected losses and required […]
Hurricane Lala triggers Hawaii’s parametric coral reef insurance
The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) Hawaiʻi parametric coral reef insurance policy will pay for damage assessment and reef repairs for the first time since it purchased the United States’ first such policy four years ago, following recent impacts from Hurricane Lala which brought dangerous flooding, strong winds and major power outages across the state. In 2022, WTW, […]
IDB arranges its first parametric catastrophe swap for Belize, Swiss Re backs it
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has successfully arranged its first sovereign parametric catastrophe swap transaction, securing $20 million of hurricane risk transfer for Belize, underwritten by global reinsurance firm Swiss Re. This first of its kind transaction to be facilitated by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is seen as an important step in bringing more […]
Samoa adaptation plan calls for regional cat bond, expansion of Pacific parametric coverage
A national adaptation plan produced for the government of south Pacific island nation Samoa calls for scaling up of parametric protection across the region, as well as for existing risk pools to cover more perils, while also suggesting a regional catastrophe bond should be planned to provide risk capacity in future. Samoa already has a […]
Rise of alternative capital will create greater space for financial investors: Guy Carpenter’s Rousseau
As alternative reinsurance capital, so that deployed through insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related collateralized structures, continues to expand and gain momentum across the reinsurance market, this pace is expected to continue, and according to Laurent Rousseau of broker Guy Carpenter, this will lead to a greater space for financial investors. Rousseau, who serves as CEO […]
Liberty Mutual Re makes sensor-triggered parametric earthquake payout in Peru
Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has issued a parametric payout for the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Peru in May and activated Safehub’s Shake Network trigger. The earthquake that struck Ica, Peru, on May 19th, 2026, generated significant ground acceleration levels across multiple client locations. The policy, which is […]
Third-party reinsurance capital projected for 6% growth to $130bn in 2026: AM Best & GC
Third-party capital in reinsurance, deployed through alternative capital vehicles, catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities, is projected to grow roughly 6% over the course of this year, to end 2026 around a record $130 billion level, according to the latest data from AM Best and Guy Carpenter. The growth rate would have been higher at more […]
Colombia secures parametric insurance for smallholder farmers, assisted by IDF, UNDP, BMZ
The Colombian government has contracted five parametric agricultural insurance policies to provide smallholder farmers with coverage against drought and excess rainfall, utilising a solution developed by the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), UNDP, and Germany’s BMZ via the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF). According to the announcement, the parametric policies developed under the Tripartite Agreement, a public-private […]
Spokane, Washington wildfires could become a billion-dollar insured loss event
AM Best and reinsurance broker Gallagher Re have suggested that the areas in and around Spokane, Washington will suffer considerable insured losses from the ongoing wildfires, with Gallagher Re indicating that it has the potential to be a billion-dollar insured loss event, and could become the costliest insured wildfire event in Washington’s history. For context, […]