Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending March 16th 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.Market makers – A dream come true for secondary cat bond liquidity: SIFMA 2025 The entry of market makers to enhance liquidity options in the secondary market for trading catastrophe bonds would be a dream come true, speakers suggested at the SIFMA ILS 2025 conference in Miami.

Fidelis to get $98m from Herbie Re 2021-1 cat bond for CA wildfire, 2024 hurricane losses Fidelis is set to benefit from a roughly $98 million additional retrocessional reinsurance recovery from its aggregate industry-index trigger Herbie Re Ltd.(Series 2021-1) catastrophe bond, as losses from the California wildfires, added to those from hurricanes Helene and Milton earlier in the risk period, have eaten into the remaining principal of these notes.Pool Re seeks £100m UK terrorism catastrophe bond with third Baltic PCC issuance Pool Re, the UK government-backed mutual terrorism reinsurance facility, has returned to the catastrophe bond market as anticipated, seeking UK £100 million or more in protection from a second renewal of its landmark terror catastrophe bond, with a Baltic PCC Limited (Series 2025-1)  issuance.

Florida Citizens targets $2.94bn of new reinsurance and cat bonds for 2025 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.New capital, coupons, cash from maturities.All drive strong cat bond execution in 2025 The catastrophe bond market has seen very attractive execution on behalf of sponsors so far this year, with a number of factors driving this that have all resulted in abundant capital being available to settle new cat bond issuances, typically at larger sizes and lower pricing.

Lloyd’s puts California wildfire loss at $2.3bn The Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance market has announced a $2.3 billion net loss estimate for the Los Angeles wildfires, as the market reports another solid year of underwriting profit and premium growth.Bermuda to remain a key innovator as ILS broadens beyond cat: MultiStrat CUO In an interview with Artemis around the Bermuda Risk Summit 2025, Kier James, Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of MultiStrat, discussed how the company believes that the island will continue to maintain its dominance of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market as it broadens beyond catastrophe-focused ILS into casualty and specialty lines of business.Allstate secures 150% upsized $750m Sanders Re 2025-1 cat bond, it’s joint largest yet Allstate has now successfully priced its latest catastrophe bond transaction, securing the upsized 150% target of $750 million of collateralized multi-peril and multi-year catastrophe reinsurance protection from the Sanders Re II Ltd.

(Series 2025-1) issuance, which marks the company’s joint-largest cat bond sponsorship ever.Porch agrees $7.1m settlement with Vesttoo Creditors Liquidating Trust Porch Group, the owner of insurer Homeowners of America Insurance Company (HOA) which was impacted by the Vesttoo reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) collateral fraud, has agreed a $7.1 million settlement over constructive trust claims with the Vesttoo Creditors Liquidating Trust, court documents show.Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) grows ILS 39% in 2024 to US $1.32bn The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), a large Canadian institutional retirement fund, has expanded its investment allocation to insurance-linked securities (ILS) by approximately 39% in 2024, lifting its investments in the ILS market to approximately US $1.32 billion.

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