Here's our latest Friday wrap-up of key news from the week.
The catastrophe bond issuance market is becoming more active, with the pipeline building the first $20bn year of 144A and private cat bonds is now in sight, according to Artemis data.
It's been confirmed today that Jamaica will receive a full $150m payout from its catastrophe bond after hurricane Melissa, with the calculation process now completed.
The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) returned this week with a $600m target for its latest cat bond.
One William Street Capital Management has now priced its debut cat bond to provide an upsized $135m of reinsurance, with spreads finalised at the low-end of twice reduced guidance.
The cat bond market yield declined through October, with risk spreads now at their lowest levels since 2019.
Singapore is expanding its ILS grant scheme to allow for transactions that cover risks outside of APAC again.
Dirk Schmelzer of Plenum Investments AG said he expects another decrease in catastrophe bond risk spreads of around 10–15%.
In other stories this week, the ILS fund sector has delivered its highest single month of investment returns on record in September 2025, according to the ILS Advisers Index.
China's financial market regulator has called on domestic re/insurers to sponsor sidecars out of Hong Kong.
After hurricane Melissa, Jamaica is now set to receive $91.9m in parametric payouts from the CCRIF facility.
While Liberty Latin America is anticipating an $81m payout from its parametric windstorm insurance due to the storm.
Nephila Capital has increased its assets under management (AUM) by $600m in the last year to reach $7.6bn.
SCOR Investment Partners announced a new milestone for its ILS funds platform, surpassing US $5 bn in ILS assets.
Aon's Joe Peiser, Chief Executive Officer of Commercial Risk Solutions, has said the broker would characterise this soft market as a "pricing correction."
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