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Spectrum joins investors ForgePoint, Hudson and MTech.
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It is understood that CyberCube has been considering a sale of the business.
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The broker has noted that double-digit reductions are increasingly available in property.
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Cat bond broking growth contributed to 6% organic growth in reinsurance.
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Sources believe the market will grow gradually over years after its initial cluster of dealmaking.
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Richard Pennay also addressed the dip in cyber ILS activity.
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The renewal and upsizing of the Trouvaille E&S sidecar highlighted the market’s potential.
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The deal is 45% larger than 2024’s issuance after attracting a “greater number of investors”.
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The former Credit Suisse ILS head Niklaus Hilti said working on life buyout hedges could rejuvenate the life ILS market.
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Novelty premiums will likely fade once investors are more comfortable with the risk.
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CEO Adrian Cox said Beazley’s recent $290mn ILW purchase was not driven by “capital flexibility in and of itself”.
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The deal has reduced the carrier’s one-in-250-year cyber loss scenario from $651mn to $461mn.
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The deal is offering a multiple of 11.3x on the expected loss.
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The bond offers a multiple of 11.3x based on a modelled expected loss of 0.93%.
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The bond is offering a spread range of 950-1,050 basis points.
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Portfolios of clients of varying size in the same region aggregate more risk.
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Building better exposure datasets could draw a broader range of investors.
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The insurer currently has $300mn of reinsurance limit from cyber cat bonds.
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The July downtime will increase relevance, demand and innovation for the market.
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The carrier estimates the total industry loss for the Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage at around $1bn-$2bn.
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The broker said less than 1% of companies globally with cyber insurance were impacted.
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The firm said losses could fall under $300mn if more favourable assumptions were applied.
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The profile of the loss could provide comfort to investors around exposure diversification.
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The event would represent a loss ratio impact of roughly 3%-10% on global cyber premiums of $15bn today.
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The market is expected to seek additional exclusions around systemic events.
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The weighted average direct financial loss for a Fortune 500 firm was $44mn.
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Hannover Re's cyber bond pays on a parametric basis for each hour after an agreed waiting period.
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The analyst estimated Beazley’s loss from the global outage at $80mn-$120mn.
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The current guidance is that Beazley will publish an undiscounted CoR in the low-80s at full year.
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The event could unpack issues around accumulation risk and cloud services.
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ILS capital so far is viewed by sponsors as strategic rather than essential.
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The second part of the PoleStar Re issuance takes the bond's total volume to $300mn.
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State interference is likely to be required if an attack is large enough to trigger bonds now on the market, experts say.
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The consortium will offer up to $50mn of per-program capacity.
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The ILS market’s exposure could grow to $1.5bn by the time a major cyber cat event occurs.
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The reinsurer said it hopes to grow the size of the $13.75mn deal over time.
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Stefan Sperlich will lead the new unit as managing director.
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Revenue, country and industry sector drive modelled output divergence.
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Some $415mn of capacity entered the market last year.
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The client lacked options in the conventional insurance market.
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Envelop SPA 1925 was launched at the start of the year with Chris Baddeley as active underwriter, based in London.
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The $50mn bond provides coverage against systemic cyber events in the US and District of Columbia.
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George Mawdsley joins after more than 10 years at Securis, where he was tasked with structuring and origination of ILS risk.
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The carrier has also extended the redemption period by three years, to 31 March 2029.
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The transaction is the second cyber cat bond in 144A format to price and follows Axis’s Long Walk Re deal in November.
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The 144A cyber cat bond deal has increased in size from an initial target of $75mn.
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The year brought a degree of closure on the loss-hit years of 2017-2021, while the outlook remains changeable for ILS managers.
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Chubb’s East Lane Re bond is the third cyber cat bond in 144A form to enter the market.
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The $75mn Long Walk Re deal secured broad market support from ILS investors.
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The $75mn cat bond will cover systemic cyber events on a per-occurrence basis.
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The $75mn cat bond is expected to close in late November.
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Sources have raised concerns that cedant demand could outpace available capacity for cyber cat bonds.
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Executives said geopolitical uncertainty, economic stagnation, cyber, cat events and inflation will drive demand on the Continent.
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The US could be exposed to economic losses of $1.1tn in the event of a cyberattack, the highest of any country.
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Cyber reinsurance has around $500mn of annual capacity currently supporting the space.
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A number of players suggested that the cost components of first-party claims were up between 30%-50% on that seen during Ransomware Wave One.
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Experts at the Trading Risk New York conference emphasised in-built cyber risk protections from defences to exclusions, as ILS managers grapple with understanding the peril.
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The founding members include Munich Re, Gallagher Re, and BitSight.
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