Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending December 7th 2025, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics.To ensure you never miss a thing or get our email alerts for every article we publish.Chubb targets $150m East Lane cyber cat bond, the first to provide aggregate coverage Chubb is back in the catastrophe bond market seeking more cyber reinsurance from the capital markets, with an initial $150 million target for an East Lane Re VII Ltd.

(Series 2026-1) issuance that could become the first cyber cat bond designed to provide annual aggregate cover for its sponsor.Beazley launches Bermuda platform with $500m to support ART / ILS expansion and growth Beazley, the London headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has made a significant commitment to the Bermuda marketplace with the deployment of $500 million of capital to establish a new platform on the island to drive growth and expansion into the alternative risk transfer market, including ILS opportunities.Shuriken Capital Management to launch as new ILS manager with Safepoint backing Shuriken Capital Management LLC is launching as a new insurance-linked securities investment manager.

The firm has a mandate to allocate capital to catastrophe bonds and other collateralized reinsurance or ILS instruments, while it is supported and backed by Florida-headquartered Safepoint Holdings, Inc., the parent of Safepoint Insurance Company.Rates down 10-15% for “late” 1/1.Cat bonds down more.

Floridians to benefit: Dittman and Seo Speaking during a panel discussion at the 2025 Florida Chamber Annual Insurance Summit last week, Chris Dittman of Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions and John Seo of Fermat Capital Management highlighted that meaningful softening in catastrophe reinsurance rates and the cost of risk capital is expected to flow to the benefit of Floridians in time.Artemis Deal Directory surpasses $200bn of catastrophe bonds and related ILS With catastrophe bond market activity having accelerated to record highs in 2025, our extensive Artemis Deal Directory has reached a new milestone, with now over $200 billion in catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities tracked and analysed since its inception.PGGM / PFZW lift target ILS allocation range for PartnerRe’s Huygen sidecar PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investor that invests in insurance-linked securities and reinsurance on behalf of its end-client Dutch pension PFZW, has revealed a meaningful increase in the target allocation size for its investment into the PartnerRe operated Huygens sidecar structure.

Caterina hires Anthony Russo from Swiss Re as Chief Product Officer and Interim COO Caterina Technologies, Inc., a quantitative applied research and development firm building financial technology infrastructure with its initial focus on the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector, has announced the hiring of senior Swiss Re ILS focused product and strategy leader Anthony Russo.King Ridge Cat Bond UCITS ETF launches as first cat bond fund with lead market maker King Ridge Capital Advisors LLC, the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has launched its awaited UCITS exchange traded catastrophe bond fund (ETF) in partnership with UCITS ETF white-label platform provider HANetf, with the strategy already having a designated lead market maker in place.US property cat reinsurance rates to see “minor decline” at 1/1: AM Best While moderate softening in U.S.

property catastrophe reinsurance rates has been observed throughout 2025, rating agency AM Best projects that further stabilisation or minor price shifts will take place at the upcoming January renewals.Migdal Insurance secures $100m Turris Re Israel quake cat bond debut Migdal Insurance Company Ltd.has now successfully secured its targeted $100 million of earthquake reinsurance covering exposures in Israel from its debut Turris Re Ltd.

(Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond transaction.This is not every article published on Artemis during the last week, just the most popular among our readers over the last seven days..

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