HCI Group Brings $12M in Tokenized Reinsurance to Solana via SurancePlus
Tokenized reinsurance reaches the live market: SurancePlus issues three Solana-native HCI Re 2026 securities with a $5,000 minimum, targeting up to $12M in capital…
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Nicolas Martin
Senior reporter at InsuraBeat covering commercial and property & casualty markets, M&A, and underwriting performance across Europe and North America. Twelve years in the industry: started as an analyst on the broker side at a global reinsurance intermediary placing casualty and specialty risks for European corporates, then five years on the underwriting side at a Tier-1 European insurer, last managing D&O and cyber portfolios. Holds a Master in Reinsurance Economics and Capital Markets from the Kwang-Hwa Institute of Financial Sciences (Taipei) and is a CFA charterholder. Writes from Paris, on US morning markets.
WTW CLIPS: US Commercial Insurance Rates Drop to 2.5% in Q1 2026
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Allianz Group 2025 SFCR: A Decade of Portfolio Shift as Government Bonds Halved and CIU Hits €255bn
Allianz 2025 SFCR: government bonds halved to EUR 97bn over a decade. The EUR 255bn CIU headline is largely a Solvency II reclassification artefact…
ICEYE’s €1bn+ Series F Bets on Satellite Data to Close the Global Nat-Cat Protection Gap
ICEYE closes €450M primary Series F led by General Atlantic at €10bn+ valuation, funding scale to 100 SAR satellites/year by 2028 to close nat-cat…
Chilean Pension Funds Allocate $79M to Catastrophe Bonds as LATAM’s ILS Market Deepens
Chilean AFPs have allocated $79M to catastrophe bonds — the first ILS investment by LATAM pension capital — flipping Chile from sovereign protection-buyer to…
Allianz in Advanced Talks to Acquire Portugal’s Caravela Seguros in Pan-European Push
Allianz is in advanced talks to acquire Portugal's Caravela Seguros at ~€150M, its third Southern European bolt-on in three years, as the 218% Solvency…
3IF Ventures Closes $12m First Round to Back Africa’s Inclusive Insurance Infrastructure Layer
3IF Ventures closes $12m first round — anchored by FSD Africa ($6m), Swiss Re Foundation ($5m) and Zep Re — to fund embedded insurance…
Howard Hughes Holdings Closes $2.1B Vantage Group Deal, Pioneering the Ackman Insurance Float Model
Howard Hughes Holdings closes $2.1B Vantage Group acquisition at 1.5x book value — with Pershing Square managing Vantage's assets fee-free, the deal establishes the…