Editorial The walls came tumbling down

From a regulatory point of view, pandemic risk was clearly on the table, be it either through stress tests for mortality rates, so-called pandemic shocks, or a requirement for concrete continuity plans in the case of serious business interruption. [...]various publications stress the fact that flu pandemics occur more frequently than we think (Marani et al., 2021). Through a shared IT infrastructure between suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, auditors, consumers and, of course, insurers3, blockchain technology enabled a considerable growth in supply chain management. Examples include supply chain insurance, crop insurance, longevity bonds, the evolving world of catastrophe insurance, pandemic bonds, parametric insurance, innovative pension schemes in a historically low interest rate environment, and the always-present market for insurance-linked securities.