Time to bite the bullet on IFRS 17? Implementation issues still abound in Asia
May 27 2025 by Marcus Alcock
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Even as Trump’s tariffs are halted by US court ruling, trade credit insurers had avoided a ‘knee-jerk reaction’
- May 30
Ian Leslie, managing director and UK head of trade credit at Marsh Specialty, says insurers had been taking a wait-and-see approach even before a federal court dealt a major blow to the new US administration.
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With delays becoming the new norm for Asia’s cargo market, intensifying risk aggregation threatens capacity
- May 29
Data shows port congestion issues have significantly worsened, forcing underwriters to rethink their strategies.
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With Australia, India and China inundated by record floods, voices swell to rewrite the nat cat lexicon
- May 28
Floods in Australia have been widely described as a one-in-500-year event, but such categorisations are now being seen as harmful to the insurance industry.
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Scale, complexity of NSW floods prompt further scrutiny of climate risk models
- May 26
Loss adjusters expect a high volume of diverse claims from the 'one-in-500-year' event across the Mid North Coast and Hunter regions of New South Wales in Australia.
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HSBC Asset Management | China’s underestimated innovation capability – AI and beyond
DeepSeek’s breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) has gained a considerable amount of investor attention, lifting sentiment towards Chinese assets. We believe China’s innovation ability is not limited to AI.
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Beazley | Turbulent Waters: the maritime energy transition challenge
Businesses are facing a complex transition to non-carbon energy sources amid a push to achieve net-zero emissions for the marine sector by 2050.
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Aon | Navigating shifts in the global and Asia insurance markets
Neelay Patel, Aon head of growth for Asia, says the market in Asia is at an ‘interesting stage of the cycle’.
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Sompo | Accelerating Sompo Group’s sustainable growth through the evolution of the P&C business
Sompo Holdings is taking significant steps to enhance its organizational structure and business strategy to achieve its ambition to become a Japan-born truly global company.
