Crypto Assets Risk Transfer Services

Cryptosec experts can help you identify how your contracts and other legal relationships may impact your insurance policies, how certain language may create certain obligations or change your coverage, or expose you to increased risks. We can help you ensure compliance with your insurance policies, and to help you balance the risks. We do this through contract reviews regarding the insurance provisions, your limits, and your compliance to those terms; sample language assessments; identification of third-party assumed liabilities; and other methods.

Director’s and Officer’s liability insurance, or D&O insurance, protects crypto companies and their executives. It covers claims brought by investors, shareholders, regulators, against the directors, officers and employees associated with things like a breach of a duty, securities violation, regulatory investigations, or proceedings. We can help you understand what kind of coverage you need, review your current policies, understand whether the regulatory coverage is adequate, etc. We specialize in knowing the specific risks in the crypto industry and helping you obtain adequate protection.

Commercial crime and cybercrime coverage reimburses companies for loss, damage, destruction or theft of crypto assets in secure premises or in transit or transmission. It also covers internal and external fraud, including electronic / cyber theft, which would include protection for warm and hot storage wallets. We can help you define and select the appropriate coverage for your organization and help you comply with your insurance policies. We can also provide incident response and investigation retainers through our specialist Crypto Investigators business, potentially reducing your premiums.

Specie cover provides coverage for the loss of crypto assets from internal and external theft, damage or destruction of private keys, etc. while crypto assets are stored in secured locations. The idea behind specie insurance is to cover an asset at a specific location, such as a deep cold storage vault. We can help you understand applicability, benefits and limitations of specie insurance for your circumstances, as well as help you define operational risk management procedures and controls to prevent the losses as well as to prove losses for insurance purposes.

Alternative crypto assets risk transfer is the use of alternative techniques from traditional insurance to achieve the same hedging and transfer of risk away to another party or to capital markets investors and receive the same protection against certain risks. Some of the options may include include risk securitization through catastrophe bonds, insurance-linked securities and reinsurance sidecars, transforming capital market risks into reinsurance through transformer vehicles, captive insurance companies, risk retention groups, and other alternative risk financing techniques.

We can assist in the formation and operation of various alternative risk transfer mechanisms.