Delve: Pandemic Bonds: The Financial Cure We Need for COVID-19?

Countries around the world are taking unprecedented action to stem the financial collapse due to COVID-19, at times requiring a degree of innovation. Like other financial players that have embraced innovation in recent years, insurers too have developed novel tools and products. One such innovation is catastrophe bonds. Professor Dror Etzion of McGill University explains whether and how “cat bonds” can be leveraged to respond to the global disruption engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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