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US mortgage business Freddie Mac wants more reinsurers to embrace its credit risk transfer programme
Freddie Mac, the US-government sponsored enterprise (GSE) that provides liquidity to the US mortgage markets by buying mortgages from lenders, anticipates that its credit risk transfer (CRT) programme will continue to grow steadily—and 2020 could be one of its biggest years yet. 20 October 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has completed a $400 million catastrophe bond hedging its exposure to tropical cyclone risks. 3 July 2014
News
Efforts by Sompo-owned Blue Capital Reinsurance Holdings to reduce volatility and improve the balance of its portfolio were scuppered by more heavy catastrophe losses in 2018 and further loss creep from events in 2017 as it posted another set of heavy losses. 31 January 2019
Insurance
Assured Guaranty has entered into a $13.5 billion reinsurance agreement with Syncora Guarantee (SGI), the wholly-owned New York financial guarantee insurance subsidiary of Bermuda-based Syncora Holdings. 6 February 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based R&Q Investment Holdings, an underwriting management and legacy acquisitions specialist, expects full year 2018 profits to substantially exceed market expectations due to significant legacy acquisitions. 19 September 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is largely in a good place but the market must accept that there is nothing ‘alternative’ about ILS any more—it’s here to stay, and a part of the furniture, Mark Hvidsten, deputy chairman at Willis Re, told PCI Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
African reinsurer One Re has appointed Nicholas Davenport as chairman of its board with immediate effect, succeeding Gilles Bonvarlet who has stepped down from the role. 6 April 2017
Insurance
RMS, in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, Swiss Re and Goldman Sachs, has unveiled a new insurance-based product to generate capital for risk-reduction infrastructure projects. 7 April 2015
Insurance
Re/insurer QBE, marine underwriting agency Proteus, and Australian broking group Steadfast have entered a strategic partnership in the marine insurance segment. 5 April 2017
Insurance
The performance of Maiden’s AmTrust Reinsurance segment deteriorated in the fourth quarter 2017 and full year, impacting Maiden’s financial performance. 28 February 2018
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