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- April 19 2023
Lloyd’s eyes regional opportunities through Hong Kong
The platform's regional director Iain Ferguson identified reinsurance capacity, captives and more local placement as areas for the market to focus on.
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- April 17 2023
Shipowners’ Club insures Singapore ship likely taken over by pirates
The ship, Success 9, has since been located off the Ivory Coast with all crew safe.
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- April 14 2023
Taiwan P&C carriers seek lifeline from owners after regulatory rebuke
Tokio Marine has taken majority control of its JV, while Fubon, Hotai, and CTBC parents are set to absorb losses.
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- April 12 2023
Crawford partners with Vietnam’s NorthStar
The tie-up between the loss adjusters is designed to strengthen service and improve customer experience across the region of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV).
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- April 12 2023
Asian SMEs warm up to cyber cover after digital boom
The changing economy is seeing more business being handled online meaning threats are growing, but risk data is still lacking.
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- April 7 2023
China’s Allianz Jingdong downgraded on poor COR, weakened capitalisation
The Guangzhou-headquartered general insurer's combined ratio rose to 104% in Q3 2022, from 99% in Q3 2021, said Fitch.
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- April 6 2023
Chris Mackinnon takes on extra Lloyd’s regional responsibilities
The head of Lloyd’s Australia and New Zealand has also become Lloyd’s deputy regional director, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa.
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- April 6 2023
AIG confirms Sally Cheung as Hong Kong head of casualty
IAN first revealed the appointment of the former Berkley Insurance Asia head of casualty in January.
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- April 4 2023
Oneglobal promotes David Lum to Asia chairman, Sirikit Oh to Asia CEO
Lum was most recently the specialty broker's Singapore chairman, with Oh as Singapore chief executive. The appointments come amid a wider leadership shake-up.
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- March 31 2023
Chaucer results bolster China Re amid difficult year
The Lloyd's specialty player's COR at 92.99% in FY 2022 while the group's P&C reinsurance arm saw profits fall 55.5%.
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- March 30 2023
Peak Re fell to a US$79.8m loss in FY 2022
The Hong Kong-headquartered reinsurer reported GWP of US$2.295bn up from US$2.145bn in FY 2021.
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- March 30 2023
China Taiping’s domestic P&C COR improves to 99.5%; Taiping Re’s at 102.6%
The insurance group's overseas P&C business saw a net profit gain of 589%, while its reinsurance arm's net profit grew 538%.
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- March 28 2023
Chubb signs 15-year GI bancassurance deal with Hang Seng Bank
The new partnership, which replaces an agreement with QBE, will launch in July.
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- March 28 2023
PICC P&C underwriting profit jumps 579%, COR improves to 97.6%
The Beijing-headquartered insurer's GWP grew to US$71bn with non-motor lines growing 11.4% year-on-year.
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- March 27 2023
Miller bolsters Singapore energy team with engineering hire
Boni Dipati will join in April as a risk engineer and was most recently a risk consultant specialist at FM Global.
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- February 1 2023
New Zealand’s insurers reel from country’s ‘worst-ever’ climate catastrophe
As adjusters start work, hundreds of million of dollars of claims are expected, including significant commercial damage.
