Swiss restructuring

As regulatory pressure on insurance companies to improve their solvency requirements increases, one reinsurer's reaction stands out from the crowd. Hardeep Dhillon looks at how Swiss Re is using innovative structures in the debt capital markets to further improve its capital efficiency

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Swiss Re has quickly made a name for itself transferring insurance risk to the debt capital markets through innovative transactions. Since the inception of the catastrophe bond market in 1996, the Swiss insurer has been at the forefront of developing insurance-linked securities and kick-starting credit insurance securitisation.

These ambitions were underlined in June when the company hired former US Federal Reserve Board vice-chairman Roger Ferguson as chairman of Swiss Re America Holding and

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