CatNet® - Our proprietary location intelligence tool

Online natural hazard atlas for efficient, accurate underwriting and risk management.
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  1. What we do
  2. Your benefits
  3. CatNet® in action
  4. How it works
  5. CatNet® Suite
  6. Client testimonials
  7. Get in touch

In 2023, natural catastrophes resulted in economic losses of USD 280 billion. Contemporarily, the (re-)insurance industry is confronted with many challenges in the context of natural catastrophe risk assessments, such as lack of high-resolution hazard information to assess P&C risk or solve related issues, the absence of solutions for accumulation control in secondary markets, unavailable data sets, no solution to combine geo-related data from different sources in a standalone application and inefficient underwriting processes.

WHAT WE DO Evolve your risk mitigation strategy with location intelligence data

We offer a range of tools in the context of property and NatCat. CatNet® is your tool of choice for swift overviews and assessments of natural hazard exposures worldwide: It assesses the risk by combining hazard, loss, exposure and your insurance information with selected background maps and satellite imagery. Use maps and data about climate change, catastrophic event impact, population density and more to support your daily work. The tool is browser-based and ready to use.

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WHY PARTNER WITH US Your locations, our data, smart results

Leverage our global, web-based natural hazard exposure analysis and mapping tool to assess and visualise your natural hazard exposure for any location in the world and assess your accumulation across entire portfolios.

  • Better bottom-line results

    CatNet® supports a wide range of business processes: from improved single risk assessments to risk engineers conducting surveys. It can provide exposure insights and location data set analysis, thus supporting accumulation control.​

  • Smart data

    Access our risk knowledge through the most recent natural hazard exposure layers and carry out analyses on near real-time event footprints for earthquakes, tropical cyclones, European winter storms and floods. Refine your risk view with new datasets on sustainability, climate change and economic trends.​

  • Global coverage
    100%
    Description
    Benefit from one solution with globally consistent, high-resolution NatCat data to measure and benchmark your exposure for any location in the world.
  • Years of experience
    20
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    Use an easy to handle, flexible Geo tool built on the long-lasting experience of supporting our clients with CatNet®.
  • Locations within minutes
    10 000
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    Combining your portfolio with our hazard data allows you to identify issues that would have otherwise remained undetected.

Before the flood: Mapping an intensifying threat

As climate change transforms destructive floods into a primary peril, we need better tools to manage this intensifying hazard. Sophisticated US flood map data have been integrated into our CatNet® tool, marking a big leap forward in understanding this peril.

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CatNet® IN ACTION Using CatNet® for flood risk assessment

See how CatNet® can be used to assess Nat Cat exposure for selected locations

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How it works Seamless support across insurance value chain

  • 1. Distribution and Sales

    Use CatNet® visualisations to highlight potential exposure to NatCat hazards in sales process.

  • 2. Product Development

    Develop new insurance products and facilitate growth using the global hazard exposure information from CatNet®.

  • 3. Underwriting & Risk Assessment

    Swiftly assess and visualise natural hazard exposure for any location as well as location sets in the world.

  • 4. Claims / Accounting

    Verify claims with near real-time event impact assessments and easily detect fraud.

  • 5. Risk surveys

    Quickly create risk surveys from your desk with the information of CatNet®.

CatNet® Suite – Tailored to your needs

  • CatNet® Basic

    Our online natural hazard atlas. Visualises regional risk profiles using a web browser and supports underwriting, location surveys, claims analysis, risk management and more.​

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WHY THIS IS THE RIGHT FIT What our clients say

With over 10 000 registered users across the globe and over 20 years of experience, CatNet® has a proven track record as the solution for Nat Cat exposure assessment. See how we have helped others power their risk understanding and secure portfolios against natural catastrophes.

  • Golden Bear Insurance Company: Using CatNet® Premium as a regular part of our underwriting, we expect to see improvements to our loss ratio.
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  • APRIL Immobilier: We were provided with a simple, yet reliable solution to properly assess risk exposure to floods.
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  • Oaktree: CatNet® provides the solution to handle catastrophe modelling for natural catastrophe risk, accumulations and event limits.
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Client testimonial: Steadfast Martyn's experience

The more that you can do in terms of mitigation and understanding natural catastrophe hazards, the better off your clients’ businesses will be.

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  • If we avoid one loss, we have more than paid for CatNet® Premium. If we avoid one catastrophic loss, we have paid for CatNet® Premium for the rest of my career.
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    Michael Brown Vice President at Golden Bear Insurance Company
  • We’ve updated our underwriting guidelines to be in line with CatNet® features and as a result our loss ratios have really improved.
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    William Berg Underwriting Manager at APRIL Immobilier
  • CatNet® allows us to generate natural hazard reports for our clients and do deep dives into their policy data. Among other benefits, it means we can see risks on the same flood-line as well as those that could potentially be affected by the same fire event. Passing this data on to our clients enables them to stay on top of their accumulations.
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    Tanus Bot Actuarial Analyst - Team Leader at Oak Tree Intermediaries (Pty) Ltd
  • CatNet® Premium is not just focused on insurance but rather extends to exploring questions like: what do we do to mitigate risks posed by exposures to natural hazards and how do we prepare ourselves? What's the impact on us from a financial standpoint? And how will that affect the balance sheet?
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    Martyn Thompson Corporate Development at Steadfast Group

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