A brand new roughly US $4 million personal disaster bond has been issued, Artex Axcell Re (Series FE0001), and the notes of the issuance are denominated in Japanese Yen, suggesting it covers disaster perils in that nation and sure gives a capital markets backed supply of reinsurance to an unknown Japanese sponsor.
The personal cat bond, or cat bond lite, has been issued by the Artex Axcell Re (Bermuda) Restricted transformer and cell facility, which is operated by Artex Danger Options and has been commonly used for transacting and issuance of personal insurance-linked securities (ILS) preparations, from collateralized reinsurance to non-public cat bonds.
Artex Axcell Re (Bermuda) Restricted, underneath its ILS Notice Program II, has issued JPY 600 million (roughly US $4 million) in Sequence FE0001 notes.
The personal cat bond notes have a due date of April twenty eighth 2025, so their protection seemingly runs into that month, which aligns with some reinsurance preparations for cedents in Japan.
We perceive this personal cat bond transaction may very well have been accomplished a while in the past, however has solely now come to gentle when the notes have been listed on the Bermuda Inventory Alternate (BSX) yesterday.
Given the denomination of the personal cat bond notes being in Japanese Yen, we assume they’ll cowl a Japanese peril, seemingly property disaster in nature, for an unknown Japanese sponsor or entity energetic there.
The JPY 600 million of personal cat bond notes have been privately positioned with certified institutional traders.
As with all personal ILS or cat bond offers that we hear about, till we study extra particulars we assume these cowl a property disaster reinsurance or retrocession threat, on this case in Japan.
With personal cat bonds, the dangers are sometimes remodeled to allow an ILS fund or investor to supply an asset that meets a disaster bond mandate, so changing them from a conventional reinsurance or retro contract to one thing extra suited to cat bond funds.
Or, they’ll merely be organized so a cedant can entry capital market traders for defense in a extra environment friendly method than endeavor a full 144A cat bond issuance course of.
Non-public ILS or cat bond lite preparations usually match into one in all numerous use-cases, both a re/insurer or different entity accessing protection from the capital markets, with the dangers assumed by a single ILS fund or investor, or a small group of funds/traders, or, they’ll signify ILS fund-to-fund transactions (hedging), or the transformation of a selected threat switch association, similar to an industry-loss guarantee (ILW), right into a cat bond technique appropriate format.
You’ll be able to view particulars on each personal cat bond we’ve tracked within the Artemis Catastrophe Bond Deal Directory. Use the filters to view solely personal cat bonds (filter by kind).
You too can track private catastrophe bond issuance by year in this interactive chart.
We’ve added this roughly $4 million Artex Axcell Re (Series FE0001) personal cat bond transaction to the Artemis Deal Directory, and what knowledge factors we’ve on the association will likely be included in our catastrophe bond and ILS market statistics.
