This session explores how private insurance and reinsurance are expanding risk-bearing capacity across development finance. We examine the latest innovations in credit and political risk insurance, partial risk guarantees, climate-linked products, and portfolio-level syndication and reinsurance platforms. The discussion highlights how these tools are enabling MDBs, DFIs, and private lenders to manage concentration limits, scale exposure in frontier markets, and structure more bankable transactions.

The credit and political risk insurance market is evolving fast: new entrants, shifting claims patterns, and changing placement models. Meanwhile, banks face complex strategic choices around centralising insurance operations, deepening interbank partnerships, and innovating product distribution. This panel takes stock of where the ecosystem stands today.

·       Private CPRI capacity trends, new entrants, and what is driving pricing across trade, export, and project finance risk

·       How the claims landscape across sovereign, political, and counterparty risk is shaping underwriter appetite

·       The real pros and cons for banks considering centralisation of their insurance operations

·       Whether portfolio-based placement is displacing single-name approaches and what that means for broker strategy

·       How interbank partnerships are redefining product distribution, reach, and risk

·       Convergence between public ECA/DFI cover and private CPRI as complementary tools within the same transaction