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
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 and
Speaking earlier today during Beazley’s earnings call for its Q4’24 results, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Adrian Cox, revealed that the London headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter, plans to sponsor more cyber catastrophe bonds in 2025 as it continues to grow.It’s no secret, that Beazley is a key figure within the cyber cat bond market,