Munich Re last week withdrew its latest catastrophe bond issuance - Queen Street X ...

GC Securities has placed the first catastrophe bond directly issued by the World Bank, via member in...

ILS fund manager Securis Investment Partners has hired Martin Reith as an advisory director in Londo...

S&P has affirmed its ratings on 18 natural-peril catastrophe bonds issued by 10 different is...

Aussie regulator not rushing master trusts

Australian securitisation activity is on the rise but is not being helped by the attitude of the mar...

Aon Benfield Securities has launched CATstream, a new facility that is designed to offer cedants fas...

A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days

PipelineMany more deals joined the pipeline last week than had been added in the week before. They c...

The CFTC has addressed for the first time its definition of a swap as it applies to a specific insur...

New capital invested in reinsurance sidecars reached US$1.92bn in 1Q14, the highest level of quarter...

Legal & General has made a number of key appointments to its bulk annuity & longevit...

Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA) has appointed Rafal Walkiewicz as md of its insuran...

SCOR has formed a new alternative solutions business within the specialties section of its Global P&...

Catastrophe reinsurance capacity is expected to double and reach US$100bn over the next few years, d...

S&P has affirmed its single-B rating on the US$140m MultiCat Mexico series 2012-1 class A no...

Jardine Lloyd Thompson Capital Markets has closed a US$10m private placement catastrophe bond, Marke...

Citi and Bank of America Merrill Lynch have closed the largest-ever catastrophe bond - the...