Municipal bond insurance grew 10.4% year-over-year in 2023 leading to the highest market penetration rate since 2008, despite the second year of down issuance.

The top two municipal bond insurers wrapped $22.814 billion in the first three quarters of 2023, a slight dip of 0.5% from the $22.929 billion of deals done over the same period in 2022, according ...

The decimated municipal-bond insurance industry is having a renaissance. Weakened by Covid-19, state and local borrowers are using insurance at their highest rates in more than a decade.

Insurance companies are selling catastrophe bonds at a record pace in 2025, passing on more climate risk to investors. These ...

With four bond insurance companies facing the potential loss of their triple-A financial strength credit ratings, the effects are bound to ripple through not only banks but bond issuers. In the $2 ...

— -- Q: I've invested a large portion of my wealth in New York municipal bonds. Do I need to be worried about default given the problems with bond insurers? A: The credit crunch started by ...

BOND INSURANCE....Last night I was reading a story in the Wall Street Journal about the travails of "struggling bond insurer" ACA, and although the basic story was one I'd read about before, ...

The life and annuity insurance segment’s bond portfolio yield hit its highest level in the past decade in 2024, increasing 22 ...

A few days ago over five billion dollars worth of Zero Coupon German government bonds (“Bunds”) were auctioned at a yield of minus five basis points. For me, as for many others, bonds with ...

While a relatively arcane part of school finance, bond insurance is an important part of borrowing money and building schools for many districts. Woes of Bond-Insurance Industry Latest Fiscal ...

Fidelity bonds are insurance policies that protect business owners in case of employee theft. They're also known as employee dishonesty insurance.