After breaking all records last year, catastrophe bond market momentum persisted through the first-quarter of 2026, with a ...

Investor appetite is surging in the asset class, which is emerging as a potential pressure valve for strained reinsurance ...

The increase in costly climate-related disasters has fueled the growth of so-called catastrophe bonds in the past few years. These are bonds issued by insurance and reinsurance companies — and ...

KatRisk, the leading provider of catastrophic risk modeling software to the insurance and financial services industries, is pleased to announce the acquisition of RED, a specialist provider of ...

According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, the number of natural disasters with damages exceeding a billion dollars rose from an average of three per year to over 17 in the last ...

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When major disasters strike — like hurricanes, earthquakes or wildfires — the financial losses can be massive. Insurance companies often struggle to cover all claims. This is where catastrophe bonds ...

The move comes as major insurers such as State Farm have stopped writing new policies in California and other states following an intensifying barrage of disasters that, along with expanding real ...

In Gaza doctors are operating without anesthesia. Fuel is running out. Food is running out. And trucks full of it can't get through — including those from the UN World Food Programme or WFP. NPR's ...

The 2023 Doomsday Clock is displayed before of a live-streamed event with members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Jan. 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic tracker ...