The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) has increased the target size for its new earthquake catastrophe bond transaction, with now as much as $230 million in collateralized reinsurance sought from the issuance.At that size it would represent a roughly 53% increase to the deal volume, while at the same time the pricing is set to come in within the lower-half of guidance.The California Earthquake Authority (CEA), one of the most consistent sponsors of catastrophe bonds for its reinsurance needs, .When it was launched to investors, the CEA was seeking $150 million of collateralized California earthquake reinsurance from its latest cat bond.

Now, we’re told the target size for this issuance has been lifted to between $200 million and $230 million, at the top-end of which it would represent a roughly 53% upsizing of the new cat bond.This Ursa Re 2023-2 cat bond will provide the CEA with a source of California earthquake reinsurance protection, on an indemnity and annual aggregate basis, across a just over three-year period, to the end of November 2026, with three loss occurrence periods.The now up to $230 million of Class E notes being offered would attach when the CEA’s aggregated qualifying losses reach $3.024 billion or above during a loss occurrence period, covering a share of the losses within a $500 million layer of its reinsurance tower.

At launch, the notes which have an initial expected loss of 3.28% were offered to cat bond investors with price guidance in a range from a spread of 9% to 9.75%.We’re now told that the spread guidance has been fixed at 9.25%, so within the lower-half of the range.This would imply slightly keener pricing than .

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