Cat bonds move up to contribute 32% of CEA’s smaller still $7.72bn reinsurance tower
As the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) risk transfer needs have been adjusting and its reinsurance tower shrinking, catastrophe bonds now make up almost 32% of the total as of February 28th 2025. The CEA’s risk transfer tower had sat at just over $9.15 billion of limit as recently as following the June 2024 reinsurance renewal season, but […]
SCOR targets $200m Atlas Capital 2025-1 multi-peril catastrophe bond
France-headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR is back in the catastrophe bond market seeking $200 million or more in fully-collateralized retrocession from an Atlas Capital DAC (Series 2025-1) issuance, Artemis has learned. This new Atlas Capital DAC Series 2015-1 catastrophe bond will be the nineteenth from SCOR to use the Atlas name and the twentieth cat bond from […]
FT: Protectionism will help push up insurance prices, says Lloyd’s of London chief
John Neal warns geopolitics and regulatory requirements will add to cost of policies. FULL ORIGINAL PUBLICATION HERE
Florida State Board considers specialty, casualty, cyber ILS opportunities
Having previously said it was researching how to expand its insurance-linked securities (ILS) allocations beyond natural catastrophe risk, at a recent meeting executives of the Florida State Board of Administration explained that specialty lines, as well as casualty and cyber risks could be in scope for the large ILS allocator. The Florida State Board of […]
Hannover Re shares €364m in losses with ILS in full-year 2024, €346m in Q4 alone
Global reinsurance company Hannover Re shared a much larger proportion of its large natural catastrophe losses with insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources in the final quarter of 2024, as the company ceded out more than half of its losses from hurricane Milton, with retrocessional arrangements seemingly playing a key role. Hannover Re reported its full-year […]
Florida Citizens targets $2.94bn of new reinsurance and cat bonds for 2025
Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the state’s insurer of last resort, is aiming to purchase $2.94 billion of new traditional reinsurance and catastrophe bonds for the 2025 hurricane season, which would take its total risk transfer to $4.54 billion this year. Florida Citizens still has $1.6 billion of catastrophe bonds outstanding to provide protection through the 2025 […]
ILS and reinsurance increasingly working together: Wong-Fupuy, AM Best
Third-party capital in the reinsurance market reached record highs in 2024, as broker Guy Carpenter, alongside rating agency AM Best estimated that it reached a substantial $107 billion at year-end, however, a key driver of the increase is the continued growth of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, which is the major component of third-party capital across reinsurance. […]
New capital, coupons, cash from maturities. All drive strong cat bond execution in 2025
The catastrophe bond market has seen very attractive execution on behalf of sponsors so far this year, with a number of factors driving this that have all resulted in abundant capital being available to settle new cat bond issuances, typically at larger sizes and lower pricing. As we’ve explained, new catastrophe bond issuance in 2025 […]
CEA catastrophe bonds now 31% share of tower, as risk transfer declines to $7.85bn
The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) shrank its risk transfer tower through the January renewals, as its traditional reinsurance placements saw further contracts expire, resulting in its catastrophe bonds making up a larger share of the overall at now more than 31%. When we last reported on the CEA’s risk transfer tower, made up of reinsurance […]
Hong Kong ILS Grant Scheme to be extended again, this time by three years
The government of Hong Kong is budgeting for a further three year extension to its Pilot ILS Grant Scheme, as the Special Administrative Region continues to target bringing catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance to its financial market. Hong Kong aims to continue developing its still nascent insurance‑linked securities (ILS) market, with attracting issuers […]