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Collateralized ILS, parametrics playing role in digital infrastructure risks: Goodman, Guy Carpenter

As the insurance and reinsurance market responds to the growing risk capacity needs of the digital infrastructure and data centre build-out, collateralized insurance-linked securities and parametric risk transfer are playing a role in covering exposures such as correlated power grid events, according to Guy Carpenter’s Jeremy Goodman. Speaking yesterday during

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10 March 2026 No Comments

ABIR and Insurance Ireland call for regulatory changes to strengthen EU securitisation market

The Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR), an industry association representing Bermuda’s international insurers and reinsurers, and Insurance Ireland, the representative body for the Irish insurance sector, are urging European Union policymakers to make regulatory adjustments to the EU securitisation framework. According to the organisations, such changes would allow

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10 March 2026 No Comments

Expansion of catastrophe bonds and ILS credit positive for re/insurers: KBRA

For insurance and reinsurance companies, the expansion of insurance-linked securities and the catastrophe bond market are viewed as credit positive by KBRA, with the rating agency explaining that the additional capacity the ILS market offers is increasingly important, supporting capital flexibility and protecting sector balance-sheets. Increasing volumes of catastrophe bond

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6 March 2026 No Comments

Hong Kong to move forwards with tax exemption for ILS investments

Hong Kong’s Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui explained today that the government aims to enhance its preferential tax regime and extend the eligible asset classes for tax exemptions to include insurance-linked securities (ILS), such as catastrophe bonds. The goal is to enhance competitiveness of its financial

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3 March 2026 No Comments