BPL Global is proud to announce its support for Street Storage, the only service in the UK specifically providing free, safe, and accessible storage to those experiencing homelessness. The importance of keeping items safe can be (and has been) overlooked when it comes to homelessness, with people sleeping outside at particular risk of having their […]
Global Reinsurance
& Portfolio Solutions
Our Global Reinsurance and Portfolio Solutions team employs the growing synergies between the credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) and reinsurance markets to offer portfolio-based cover for efficient risk transfer and enhanced use of capital for both financial institutions and corporate clients.
Our team also provides traditional facultative and treaty reinsurance for insurers, captives, surety providers, multi-lateral agencies, export credit agencies and financial guarantors.
Our Products: Reinsurance & portfolio solutions
The SRT Market
Portfolio Solutions
Significant Risk Transfer Transactions
A growing synergy between CPRI and reinsurance, Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) transactions allow financial institutions to shift credit risk on a portfolio of assets while maintaining the legal ownership and client relationship of a wide range of underlying assets – including those relating to residential mortgages, trade finance, project finance, as well as large corporate, SME, and asset backed loans.
Structured with a least two different stratified risk tranches of the underlying pool of assets, SRTs reflect degrees of credit risk in the portfolio. In exchange for risk premium paid by the financial institutions, SRT (re)insurers cover all losses of an entire pool of assets up to an aggregate limit, supported by their credit and political risk expertise and sophisticated modelling and actuarial capabilities.
With this structure, financial institutions, using both the standardised approach as well as Internal Ratings-Based method, can qualify for significant regulatory capital relief under Basel III/CRD IV.
World Leading Expertise
We have deep expertise in delivering reinsurance and portfolio-based solutions for our financial institutions and corporate clients which provide for efficient risk transfer and enhanced use of capital.
(Re)insurers covering SRT transactions, also known as Unfunded Investors, provide meaningful capacity and competitive pricing due to their risk-based premium calculation. Without collateral requirements, Unfunded Investors are able to provide cover for thicker tranches compared to Funded investors.
Portfolio Solutions
BPL Global’s Portfolio Solutions platform uses reinsurance structures and techniques to provide financial institutions with a range of tailored portfolio-based risk transfer and capital relief insurance covers, including proportional and non-proportional structures.
Reinsurance
We also provide specialist credit and political risk reinsurance broking services for insurers, captives, reinsurers, surety providers, multi-laterals, ECAs and financial guarantors. This includes broad range of facultative and treaty reinsurance programmes, such as quota share, Excess of Loss (per risk/obligor or on an aggregate basis) and surplus solutions.
Using our actuarial and data modelling capabilities, we structure, analyse, and advise on pricing for reinsurance programmes. We support our clients throughout the renewal process – from data gathering and modelling, submission preparation, reinsurer engagement and negotiation, through to treaty inception and counterparty monitoring.
Find out what sets us apart:
In the news
Founded in 1983, BPL Global has grown to become the leading specialist CPRI broker for multinationals, banks and financial institutions. Established amidst a fast changing, newly entrepreneurial culture within the London insurance industry, BPL Global’s achievements have been closely intertwined with, and shaped by, the evolution of the insurance industry and CPRI market. To celebrate […]
BPL Global is dedicated to supporting charities and causes, both locally and internationally, which address pressing societal and economic issues. One of the initiatives that has recently caught our attention and support is Insulate Ukraine – a project that temporarily restores bomb-damaged windows in homes and municipal buildings across war-torn Ukraine, while investing in people, […]
LONDON, UK. Leading CPRI broker BPL Global has appointed seasoned banking professional Riz Sheikh to expand its Portfolio Solutions team. With over 20 years of experience in securitisation and structured finance, Sheikh will lend his expertise to the development of BPL Global’s Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) offering, to complement its existing portfolio solutions capabilities for […]
BPL Global is proud to announce its support of Insulate Ukraine. The project seeks to temporarily restore bullet- and bomb-damaged buildings in towns and villages across war-torn Ukraine with specially designed plastic windows, allowing for uninhabitable homes to become liveable again. BPL Global’s partnership with Insulate Ukraine has so far improved the lives of over […]
Watch the latest episode of BPL Pulse featuring Hugh Friel, Vice President, Structuring, Africa at Frontclear. He joins BPL Global Director Charlotte Hampshire to discuss the role of DFIs in enhancing the stability of money markets in emerging economies, and Frontclear’s approach to delivering support to these regions. We’ve spent a lot of time in-country, […]
