Here's our latest Friday wrap-up of key news from the week.
So far this week only one new catastrophe bond joined the pipeline, a new $325 million 2001 CAT Re transaction for Allied World.
With the pipeline already busy, currently standing at approximately $3.7bn, there were numerous other cat bond deal updates.
The CEA aims to upsize its latest cat bond issuance to provide $900m of reinsurance, while also targeting keener pricing.
VIG Re successfully priced its debut cat bond, to secure an upsized €60m of protection at a below-guidance spread.
German insurer VKB lifted its target for its new cat bond to €200m, while also targeting lower pricing.
But, discipline is still evident and SafePoint's new industry-loss trigger cat bond looks like it will price towards or at the upper-end of guidance, showing not every deal is pricing down.
This week we published another video from our recent Artemis London 2026 conference, a session focused on the data centre risk transfer opportunity for ILS.
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In other stories this week, is the Cortina syndicate simply the latest iteration of a soft market trend and evolution of following capacity, or something more portending of future market developments.
Quantedge Capital recognises that consistency in terms of its capital deployment to the ILS asset class is key, CEO Suhaimi Zainul-Abidin explained.
Hannover Re is looking towards its renewal of retrocessional protection for 2027 with a plan to place similar structures to the current program.
Cahal Doris of Twelve Securis said ILS growth must be driven by pricing, structure and understanding, and not simply for the sake of expanding the market.
Man Group highlighted how the catastrophe bond market continues to offer effective pricing competition, multi-year cover against a range of perils, and an additional source of capacity.
Euler ILS Partners discussed the increasing breadth of the cat bond market, saying that at the same time expected losses are concentrating into the 1% to 3% range.
Finally, if you haven't seen them, Artemis has a wealth of data and analytics on the catastrophe bond and broader ILS market. View our charts and Deal Directory.
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We'll be back next week with more regular coverage.
We hope you have a safe & relaxing weekend.
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