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- June 20 2025
Further war rate adjustments expected amid intensifying Middle East conflict, Swedish Club warns
P&I club also anticipates increased focus on compliance-related issues in order to identify certain increased risk elements.
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- June 19 2025
Markel International appoints Muhammad Saber as operations manager for APAC
Singapore-based Saber joins from Liberty Specialty Markets where he was most recently operations team lead.
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- June 19 2025
Strait of Hormuz tanker collision highlights dark fleet dangers, but not seen as war event
Adalynn and Front Eagle collided on Tuesday in the Strait of Hormuz amid the ongoing tensions between Iran and Israel.
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- June 18 2025
Allianz Trade promotes Helene Payen to Asia Pacific CFO
Payen will relocate from Spain to Singapore, succeeding Benoit Semelin who will become CFO for Northern Europe.
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- June 18 2025
South Korean insurers’ K-ICS ratio falls below 200% for the first time, standing at 197.9%
The ratio for non-life insurers decreased by 3.4 percentage points to 207.6% at the end of March compared to 3 months earlier, while that of life insurance companies fell 12.7 percentage points to 190.7%.
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- June 17 2025
‘Quite orderly’ 1.7 ANZ renewals seeing double-digit rate cuts amid plentiful capacity
Reinsurers, though, have little appetite to reduce first loss retention levels, sources told InsuranceAsia News.
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- June 17 2025
Exclusive: Zurich names Koji Okumura as senior property underwriter in Japan
Okumura earlier worked at Munich Re as an underwriter for almost 10 years, travelling between Japan and Hong Kong.
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- June 16 2025
Exclusive: Marsh Japan hires WTW veteran Hirofumi ‘Luke’ Nakamura amid exodus, talent battle
Tokyo-based Nakamura joins Marsh as a senior vice president along with several other former WTW colleagues.
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- June 16 2025
AEI Insurance Broking to acquire AB Phillips, creating US$227m combined GWP within AUB Group
Merger followes recent acquisitions of Austbrokers Canberra and BusInsure and the buildout of the AEI Melbourne operation.
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- June 16 2025
Marsh Japan appoints Shohei Iida as vice president for private equity, M&A services
Tokyo-based Iida was previoulsy a financial lines underwriter at Allianz Commercial and AIG.
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- June 13 2025
Singapore Re expands into India with GIFT City branch
The Fairfax Asia owned reinsurer becomes the fourth international company to set up a branch in the Indian financial special economic zone.
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- June 13 2025
Aon Thailand appoints Chalisa Maythangkul as director for natural resources
Bangkok-based Maythangkul has over 30 years' experience in the power insurance sector, having most recently been executive consultant at Howden Maxi and Howden Singapore.
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- June 12 2025
QBE to underwrite MGA Blue Zebra’s Australian motor business
New capacity provider replaces Youi, which has decided to move away from broking channel.
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- June 10 2025
Allianz Commercial appoints Hydor as MGA for APAC marine liability insurance
Hydor will quote and bind policies for all marine liability products, including property, handling equipment, hull and machinery, port craft and service boats.
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- June 10 2025
Howden Australia lands AIG veteran Grant Sheppard as head of marine and logistics
Sydney-based Sheppard spent 23 years at the insurer, most recently as head of marine for Australasia.
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- June 10 2025
BHSI Australia expands into life science, biotech, pharmaceutical management liability
The new policy, designed for the research and development ecosystem, covers directors and officers, scientific and medical advisory boards and private capital raisings and is not excluded in the event of insolvency.
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- June 10 2025
Malpractice claims set pulses racing for APAC’s physicians, but influx of capacity points to clean bill of health
Medical malpractice insurance is becoming more important as patients have greater understanding of their legal rights, while medical inflation and increasing awards for damages make claim costs significantly larger.
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- June 9 2025
Putting Markel on the map: International president Andrew McMellin eyes US$500m APAC premiums written by 2030
Specialty insurer also targets US$5bn of premiums across its international markets, while trying to get a 50/50 balance between London and non-London books of businesses.
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- June 9 2025
Manulife unit to re-domicile to Hong Kong from Bermuda in November
Second insurer after Axa to shift its base under Hong Kong's new company re-domiciliation regime.
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- June 9 2025
Aon Singapore names Tisha Soh as head of client services, health solutions
For the last 11 years, Soh has been focused on employee health benefits, having worked at Great Eastern, WTW and Cigna Healthcare.
