Artemis has learned that Security First Insurance Company, a specialist Florida domestic homeowners insurer, has now raised its target for named storm reinsurance from its latest visit to the catastrophe bond market, now aiming to secure up to $250 million of protection from its new First Coast Re IV Ltd. (Series 2025-1) issuance, the company’s … Read more
Euler ILS Partners, the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has issued an updated event report for the California wildfires, saying it believes the insurance industry loss may sit between $23 billion to $33 billion.In January, the investment manager released its first event report from the wildfires, where analysts initially estimated that insured losses from … Read more
Password managers have become commonplace at this point. But businesses often have different needs than consumers. Teams, after all, often have to share credentials to access resources, all while IT and security teams need ways to control who has access to them. Passbolt, which is announcing an $8 million seed round Thursday, aims to become … Read more
SafePoint Insurance Company has raised the target size for its latest catastrophe bond issuance, with now between $150 million and $200 million of reinsurance protection sought from capital market investors through the Nature Coast Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) deal, Artemis can report.It means this new Nature Coast Re cat bond could become the equal largest … Read more
Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) are in the process of negotiating a new pandemic treaty to help tackle future pandemics. Yet as Clare Wenham, Mark Eccleston-Turner and Harry Upton explain, it remains unclear how the treaty will integrate with existing legal instruments. In 2021, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) began simultaneously … Read more
