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- March 27 2024
Marsh Asia appoints Alexander Pui to its climate and sustainability advisory team
Tokyo-based Pui was previously executive manager, climate scenario analytics, at Commonwealth Bank for nearly two years from March 2022
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- March 27 2024
China expands national nat cat pool to cover perils beyond earthquakes
The nat cat insurance mechanism will now also include typhoons, floods, torrential rains, mudslide and landslide, it will double limits per household, as well as support commercial cat cover.
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- March 27 2024
Canopius Asia hires Patrick Fyson as APAC property head
Singapore-based Fyson will look to grow the company’s property underwriting business in the region.
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- March 27 2024
Malaysia’s Etiqa General Insurance, Takaful “A” ratings affirmed on strong earnings
The rating agency affirmed an insurer financial strength rating of "A" (strong) to the five subsidiaries of Maybank Ageas Holdings Berhad with a stable outlook.
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- March 27 2024
Britannia P&I’s Bermudan reinsurers, Axa XL set to bear brunt of multi-billion-dollar Baltimore bridge collapse
The event involving Singapore-flagged Dali, which could likely be the biggest insured loss in maritime history, will increase pool layer costs and container GXL pricing next year, sources tell IAN.
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- March 27 2024
Japan 1.4 renewals ‘orderly’ with risk-rated hikes
While structures and terms and conditions are expected to stabilise, shrinking capacity from major Japanese players is forcing cedents to explore new capacity from global insurers.
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- March 27 2024
PICC P&C 2023 net profit drops as nat cats, post-Covid reopening aggravate claims
China's largest P&C insurer saw net profit for the financial year drop 15.6% and its combined ratio edge up to 97.8%
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- March 27 2024
Korean carriers turn around underwriting results with US$6.2bn insurance income
Even with a 70% drop in investment profit, the country’s non-life insurers posted a 51% increase in net income in 2023.
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- March 27 2024
HDI Global eyes A&H expansion, new representative offices in Asia: CEO
The industrial carrier reported a 4.9% APAC insurance revenue growth in FY 2023 backed by strong results in Singapore and Malaysia.
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- March 26 2024
Hannover Re to combine global cyber, digital risks underwriting business
Stefan Sperlich, who was leading the company’s North American structured reinsurance business, will head the Hannover-based business unit as managing director.
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- March 26 2024
Sunshine P&C’s FY 2023 COR improves to 98.7%, underwriting profit goes up 142.4%
While the group's P&C insurance revenue for the year increased 10.2% to CNY45.5bn (US$6.3bn), primarily due to non-motor business growth, net profit for the 12 month-period went down 36.1% to CNY978m, affected by a 49.5% decrease in investment income due to adoption of new accounting standard and volatile capital market.
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- March 26 2024
Korea unveils US$190m trade insurance fund to promote exports
The fund will “drastically improve the terms regarding recipient eligibility" and benefit a wide range of sectors ranging from shipbuilding, petrochem to K-pop.
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- March 26 2024
Allianz Trade elevates James Lie as regional head of e-commerce
The appointment of Singapore-based Lie, who was previously the country manager for Indonesia, underlines the insurer's effort in tapping into the region’s fast-growing e-commerce credit insurance market.
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- March 26 2024
Opinion: AI will tip the balance – the question is, when?
While algorithms are great at working with tried and tested data and assumptions, conceptualising scenarios outside the given parameters is not within their capabilities and an underwriter’s assessment is still needed.
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- March 26 2024
China Taiping posts strong 2023 overseas P&C profit growth as domestic business sags
The (re)insurer saw its China P&C insurance's operating profit plunge 71%, contrasting the 87% growth for its overseas business including Hong Kong.
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- March 25 2024
Guy Carpenter appoints new Pacific CEO in regional leadership shake-up
The reinsurance broker has hired Ben Savill as Pacific chief executive and promoted Jeff Saper and Luc Morement as APAC head of fac and regional sales leader, respectively.
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- March 25 2024
Huatai P&C Insurance’s underwriting performance set to improve on Chubb’s support: Fitch
Fitch Ratings has upgraded Huatai P&C’s rating to 'A+' (strong) from 'A' following Chubb's move to raise its stake in its holding company, Huatai Insurance, to 85.5% in February.
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- March 25 2024
IRDAI regulatory revamp ushers in new insurance e-commerce platform
Indian insurance regulator consolidates 34 regulations into six as it introduces two new rules to enhance “clarity and coherence”. One notable addition is a digital public infrastructure to connect all industry stakeholders.
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- March 25 2024
Insurance Council of New Zealand widens complaints reporting to boost transparency
Customers should expect their insurers to maintain high standards and have in place robust processes, backed by external oversight, for handling complaints, ICNZ chief executive said.
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- March 25 2024
Sedgwick names Crawford’s Erwin Yu to lead Malaysia TPA operations
In his new role, Yu will lead the local operations performance and oversee third-party administration, focusing on claims management and operational initiatives.
