<div>By <a href="http://Artemis.bm">Artemis.bm</a>'s figures, annual catastrophe bond issuance across all the types of deals we track has now shattered the previous full-year record in just over six months in 2025. 
 
At over $17.8 billion, new issues of Rule 144A catastrophe bonds and private cat bonds have broken the record set in full-year 2024. 
 
The outstanding cat bond market has grown by roughly 15% since the end of last year and average cat bond deal sizes are up notably as well. 
 
Listen to this podcast episode for more insights into the record year of catastrophe bond issuance in 2025, according to <a href="http://Artemis.bm">Artemis.bm</a>'s data.</div>

By Artemis.bm's figures, annual catastrophe bond issuance across all the types of deals we track has now shattered the previous full-year record in just over six months in 2025. At over $17.8 billion, new issues of Rule 144A catastrophe bonds and private cat bonds have broken the record set in full-year 2024. The outstanding cat bond market has grown by roughly 15% since the end of last year and average cat bond deal sizes are up notably as well. Listen to this podcast episode for more insights into the record year of catastrophe bond issuance in 2025, according to Artemis.bm's data.

By <a href="http://Artemis.bm" rel="noopener noreferrer">Artemis.bm</a>'s figures, annual catastrophe bond issuance across all the types of deals we track has now shattered the previous full-year record in just over six months in 2025. 
 
At over $17.8 billion, new issues of Rule 144A catastrophe bonds and private cat bonds have broken the record set in full-year 2024. 
 
The outstanding cat bond market has grown by roughly 15% since the end of last year and average cat bond deal sizes are up notably as well. 
 
Listen to this podcast episode for more insights into the record year of catastrophe bond issuance in 2025, according to <a href="http://Artemis.bm" rel="noopener noreferrer">Artemis.bm</a>'s data.

185: Catastrophe bond issuance shatters records in 2025 nearing $20 billion

<div>Artemis Live - Discussions with leaders in the catastrophe bond (cat bond), insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance, insurance risk transfer and investments space, as well as updates on the cat bond and ILS industry, explainers and how-to's. 
 
 
<a href="http://Artemis.bm">Artemis.bm</a> was formally launched in early 1999. Its founders held a belief that the capital markets was the deepest, most liquid and efficient source of risk and reinsurance capital available to facilitate the transfer of disaster and other exposures to investors, and that capital market structures such as cat bonds would be the most effective tools for the structuring and transfer of peak catastrophe risks. 
 
 
Today, Artemis is the longest running news, analysis and data media service devoted to the alternative risk transfer, catastrophe bond &amp; insurance linked security (ILS), non-traditional reinsurance, insurance linked investments and associated risk transfer markets, with more than 60,000 readers every single month. 
 
 
With a wealth of news, cat bond data, analysis and market information, <a href="http://Artemis.bm">Artemis.bm</a> is the best place to source information related to cat bonds, insurance linked securities and collateralised reinsurance capacity and investing. 
 
 

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Artemis Live - Discussions with leaders in the catastrophe bond (cat bond), insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance, insurance risk transfer and investments space, as well as updates on the cat bond and ILS industry, explainers and how-to's. Artemis.bm was formally launched in early 1999. Its founders held a belief that the capital markets was the deepest, most liquid and efficient source of risk and reinsurance capital available to facilitate the transfer of disaster and other exposures to investors, and that capital market structures such as cat bonds would be the most effective tools for the structuring and transfer of peak catastrophe risks. Today, Artemis is the longest running news, analysis and data media service devoted to the alternative risk transfer, catastrophe bond & insurance linked security (ILS), non-traditional reinsurance, insurance linked investments and associated risk transfer markets, with more than 60,000 readers every single month. With a wealth of news, cat bond data, analysis and market information, Artemis.bm is the best place to source information related to cat bonds, insurance linked securities and collateralised reinsurance capacity and investing.

Artemis Live - Discussions with leaders in the catastrophe bond (cat bond), insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance, insurance risk transfer and investments space, as well as updates on the cat bond and ILS industry, explainers and how-to's. 
 
 
<a href="http://Artemis.bm" rel="noopener noreferrer">Artemis.bm</a> was formally launched in early 1999. Its founders held a belief that the capital markets was the deepest, most liquid and efficient source of risk and reinsurance capital available to facilitate the transfer of disaster and other exposures to investors, and that capital market structures such as cat bonds would be the most effective tools for the structuring and transfer of peak catastrophe risks. 
 
 
Today, Artemis is the longest running news, analysis and data media service devoted to the alternative risk transfer, catastrophe bond &amp; insurance linked security (ILS), non-traditional reinsurance, insurance linked investments and associated risk transfer markets, with more than 60,000 readers every single month. 
 
 
With a wealth of news, cat bond data, analysis and market information, <a href="http://Artemis.bm" rel="noopener noreferrer">Artemis.bm</a> is the best place to source information related to cat bonds, insurance linked securities and collateralised reinsurance capacity and investing.

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