WFP's food security catastrophe bond plan

The World Food Programme (WFP) is progressing a plan to become the first to utilise catastrophe bonds for food security financing, in a novel transaction that would see it become the first UN agency to sponsor a cat bond ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Web version |  Update preferences |  Forward WFP's food security catastrophe bond plan WFP progresses food security catastrophe bond plan, to mobilise $100m for drought resilience The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is progressing a plan to become the first to utilise catastrophe bonds for food security financing, in a novel transaction that would see it become the first UN agency to sponsor a cat bond, with a target to source up to $100 million in risk transfer to boost drought resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa. It would mark the first catastrophe bond to benefit a UN organisation directly, with the WFP positioned to be the insured party. It would also mark the first cat bond to directly seek to cover drought related risks, a new peril for the reinsurance capital markets. Read the full story. Other articles: Louisiana Citizens targets slightly lower pricing for $150m Bayou Re 2026-1 cat bond.   ADB prices first cat bonds, secures $160m disaster risk finance for Kyrgyz Republic & Tajikistan.   Suncorp purchases five-year aggregate reinsurance cover. Please share this with colleagues and friends if you think they would like to receive it. If you've been forwarded this but want to subscribe, visit Artemis.   You may be receiving this because you recently attended an industry event we partnered with, giving us permission to email you. If you don't want to receive our weekly ILS, catastrophe bond and reinsurance capital newsletter please Unsubscribe  or Edit your subscription here . © Steve Evans Ltd. - Artemis.bm

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Web version |  Update preferences |  Forward Best of Artemis, week ending April 26th 2026 Last week's top stories Supply-demand softening property at a pace “I’ll only describe as dumb” – Chubb CEO Greenberg Evan Greenberg called out supply-demand factors related to capital in the insurance and reinsurance industry, as well as high levels of intermediation cost, as softening the property insurance market at a pace he called “dumb”. ‘Very likely’ cat bonds will be used to source risk capital for data centre build out: John Seo As the data centre build-out continues to expand as an emerging field across the industry, it appears very likely that insurers, reinsurers and various organisations may turn towards catastrophe bonds to source risk capital for these facilities, according to John Seo of Fermat Capital Management LLC. Insurance-linked securities sector can be a big beneficiary of the AI revolution: SIFMA The catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities sector can be a significant beneficiary of the revolution in artificial intelligence (AI), with applications such as process improvement, enhanced underwriting and analytics, as well as powering the ILS industry to do more, speakers discussed at the SIFMA ILS conference. Global insured catastrophe losses hit $20bn in Q1 2026: Gallagher Re Gallagher Re has estimated that total insured catastrophe losses for the opening quarter of 2026 reached at least US$20 billion, 26% lower than the decadal average of $26 billion, and 47% below the most recent 5-year average. At least $115bn to $125bn of cat losses needed to shift property pricing trajectory: Gallagher Re In order for the current downward trajectory of pricing in property insurance and reinsurance to be meaningfully shifted broker Gallagher Re says that an anomalously high loss burden will be required. IoT sensors and satellite imagery to play key role in future of parametric flood insurance: Swiss Re Swiss Re has outlined that an array of sensor technologies has transformed how flood risk can be measured, from Internet of Things (IoT) flood sensors and satellite imagery to remote sensing and high-resolution flood models, all of which can play a key role in the future of parametric flood insurance. Eaton Vance mutual funds benefit from strong reinsurance sidecar and ILS returns Eaton Vance has benefitted from the strong return environment in insurance-linked securities and reinsurance sidecar investments, with its allocations seemingly all accruing positive value. Investors show huge interest in data centre risk. Diversification story of ILS a consideration: SIFMA During the SIFMA ILS conference in Miami a panel discussed the topic of data centre risk and some of the considerations that need to be kept in mind as the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market looks at these potentially meaningful opportunities. Schroders Capital & Hannover Re integrate tokenisation capability into ILS platform Schroders Capital’s Private Debt & Credit Alternatives (PDCA) team, together with global reinsurer Hannover Re, have unveiled the integration of an innovative tokenised capability into its insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment platform. Euler ILS Partners sees $1bn fund opportunity for data centre sidecar risk: Bloomberg Euler ILS Partners sees a $1 billion fund opportunity based on quota share’s to support insurance risk transfer capacity for the data centre build-out, according to reporting from Bloomberg. 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