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# Private Capital, Public Flood: Risky Science Live
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/private-capital-public-flood-risky-science-live/
- Published: 2026-06-23T22:38:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-23T22:38:38.000Z
- Author: Risk Market News
- Tags: Events

For nearly sixty years, the question of who insures American flood risk had one answer: Washington. That answer now has an expiration date. On September 30, the National Flood Insurance Program's authority to write and renew policies lapses unless Congress acts — the latest cliff in a run of short-term patches that have left the same structural question unanswered since the program's last long-term reauthorization in 2012\. Into that uncertainty steps private capital, armed with flood models that didn't exist the last time the program was rebuilt.

On Wednesday, July 22 — ten weeks before the deadline — three people who build and price that private alternative sit down for Risky Science Live: **Matt Duffy** (President & Chief Risk Officer, Neptune Flood), **Firas Saleh** (Director, Model Product Management, Moody's), and **Brandon Katz** (EVP, KatRisk). Risk Market News's **Olivia Berkman** moderates.

What can private flood models actually price that the NFIP can't? Where does private capital want this risk — and where does it run? And if Washington lets the authority lapse, who's ready to write the policy?

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