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4/26/2024

U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office Launches New Partnership with the National Science Foun…

U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office
Launches New Partnership with the National Science
Foundation on Terrorism and Catastrophic Cyber Risks
April 26, 2024

WASHINGTON – This week, the U.S. Department of the Treasuryʼs Federal Insurance O ice
(FIO) hosted the 2024 International Forum of Terrorism Risk (Re)Insurance Pools (IFTRIP)
Annual Conference. IFTRIP is a forum of 15 nations, including the United States, supporting
initiatives for closer international collaboration among sovereign-backed terrorism
reinsurance pools. FIO began serving as chair of the IFTRIP in 2024.
During the Annual Conference, FIO announced a partnership with the National Science
Foundation (NSF) to establish a new Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC)
to provide research, analysis, and thought leadership to improve the insurance sectorʼs
modeling and underwriting of terrorism and catastrophic cyber risks. An IUCRC is a vehicle,
developed by the NSF, where university faculty and students work with an industry
consortium to carry out cutting-edge research focused on the collective needs of a sector of
the U.S. economy.
This new IUCRC will bring together the insurance sector, academic teams, the federal
government, and other stakeholders to strengthen the resilience of the U.S. financial system
through e orts that:
(1) help insurers to estimate risk with greater certainty, thereby improving insurance
pricing, coverage, and policyholder uptake;
(2) contribute to the potential expansion of reinsurance and capital markets to help
support these risks; and
(3) inform the treatment of terrorism and catastrophic cyber risks in government
programs.
FIO and the NSFʼs request for research proposals can be viewed here.
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