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- March 3, 2020
Germany follows UK to launch €25M climate disaster insurance fund
BMZ has committed 25m to a new capital pool that builds on a model already established by the UK. Beginning at the start of the year, that money can be used to underwrite risk-transfer instruments that speed up recovery payouts when disasters strike or that offer a financial safeguard to agencies looking to increase their programs across the developing world.
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- January 28, 2020
Parametrics offer response to extreme climate events
Global Parametrics aim to improve access to cover by means of parametric products in emerging markets. These constitute a type of insurance that covers the probability of a predefined event happening, rather than indemnifying actual loss incurred.
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- December 28, 2019
Norton Rose Fulbright advises Global Parametrics on natural catastrophe fund
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Global Parametrics in relation to its arrangements with global reinsurance firm Hannover Re and the German Government in relation to a new natural catastrophe focused investment fund, NDF Deutschland.
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- December 9, 2019
Global Parametrics gets Hannover Re backing for new risk transfer fund
Global Parametrics, the parametric and index-based disaster risk transfer company, has launched a new natural catastrophe focused investment fund that has received backing from global reinsurance firm Hannover Re and the German government.
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- December 4, 2019
B-Ready Project – promoting disaster resilience in the Philippines
Global Parametrics have partnered with Oxfam Philippines and Plan International to launch the B-Ready Project, which aims to promote disaster resilience for the most vulnerable, the elderly, women and children living in low-resource communities in the Philippines.
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- November 27, 2019
Interview with Global Parametrics’ CEO: Hector Ibarra
Global Parametrics (GP) is a global expert in natural disaster risk mitigation and financial resilience in emerging economies. BlueOrchard interviews Hector Ibarra, CEO of Global Parametrics.
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- April 1, 2019
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Global Parametrics, 6 VisionFund Microfinance Institutions Prepare for Climate Disasters Under African and Asian Resilience in Disaster Insurance Scheme (ARDIS)
Global Parametrics, a for-profit risk manager funded by UK-based and German development institutions, and the UK-based NGO VisionFund International recently established the African and Asian Resilience in Disaster Insurance Scheme (ARDIS), to protect six VisionFund microfinance institutions (MFIs).
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- April 1, 2019
World’s largest non-governmental climate insurance scheme launched
The African and Asian Resilience in Disaster Insurance Scheme (ARDIS) will provide cover to farmers and small businesses in Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Zambia, Cambodia and Myanmar this year.
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- January 31, 2019
Global Parametrics to use supercomputer to hone climate & seismic models
Global Parametrics, the parametric and index-based risk transfer company that launched with the backing of the UK and German governments, will utilise one of the world’s fastest computers to enhance its climate and seismic risk models and help it develop products.
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