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- July 17 2025
Asian clients, suppliers facing choppy waters with cargo market braced to navigate intensifying geopolitical risks
Markel's Brook Styles and Wanshi Lin discuss the impact of the conflicts in the Middle East, plus the Russia–Ukraine war and the US tariff regime.
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- July 7 2025
New Australian MGA says collaboration key for D&O risks ‘no one else will touch’
Collaboration Underwriting, headed by Alistair Sandilands, will target hard-to-place and broader D&O risks.
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- July 3 2025
Regional risk concerns for ‘fourth utility’ as data centres seek answers to perils threat
Threat of cyber attack or system failure has been a focus for risk management systems, but physical risks, such as natural disasters, power failures and physical security risks, are often less understood.
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- July 1 2025
Nuclear fusion is the next frontier for insurers, but collaboration essential amid sustainable energy push
China, alongside the UK, US, and Germany, are the leading nations in the global drive to create fusion power.
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- June 24 2025
In unique Asia, underwriters look to stay dialed amid ‘unprecedented wave’ of cyber attacks
A surge in cyberattacks is likely behind a 14% rise in large cyber claims in Asia during the first half of last year, with a new report shining a light on attacks on the financial services sector.
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- June 16 2025
Asian and financial risks, cyber, silos on the agenda as insurers, risk managers face complex challenges
Geopolitical risks were at the heart of the agenda at the 2025 Airmic Conference in Liverpool, where risk managers from the UK, Ireland, and Europe gathered last week.
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- June 5 2025
With ‘no natural home’ for emerging risks, Gallagher seeks to offer sanctuary amid new energy transition
Broker’s head of energy transition, Ian Picton, says there are 12 different segments and various client topics around the risks faced amid the transition to new areas of energy.
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- May 30 2025
Even as Trump’s tariffs are halted by US court ruling, trade credit insurers had avoided a ‘knee-jerk reaction’
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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- May 28 2025
With Australia, India and China inundated by record floods, voices swell to rewrite the nat cat lexicon
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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- May 22 2025
Clear resilience playbook, new DNA needed as climate challenge grows: Marsh’s Beverley Adams
Head of climate and catastrophe resilience tells InsuranceAsia News that as businesses, including in Asia Pacific, transition to a low-carbon future, insurers are increasingly being asked to play a part in the finance and risk management of projects.
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- May 19 2025
Blunt warning for Lloyd’s syndicates from incoming CEO, market urged to avoid ‘travesty’
With 15 Asian service companies in Singapore, Patrick Tiernan urges self-diagnose amid a fragile market, while CUO Rachel Turk warns of a 'critical junction'.
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- May 12 2025
Green transition to test industry’s relevance as debate intensifies, LMA’s Paul Davenport says
Lloyd’s Market Association finance and risk director made the comments after it had been suggested that insurers have often been seen as 'going missing in action' when it came to the structure of green finance for projects.
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- May 7 2025
Asia firmly in Markel’s sights as it seeks to ‘equip, empower’ amid global leadership shake up
Lloyd’s underwriter continues the hunt for an Asia Pacific CEO to succeed Christian Stobbs, who is returning to the UK.
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- April 30 2025
MIA no longer an excuse: time for insurers to create vintage blended solution to aid green finance
Leading climate experts have urged insurers to play a role in driving green finance and investments by supporting the risks of the new technology that will power the world’s energy future.
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- April 29 2025
‘Time to act is now’: known unknowns pose real risk to renewable energy future
Growing number of green energy projects in Australia are facing ever more extreme weather risks, with insurers unable to access data and modelling to adequately understand their exposures.
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- April 11 2025
London market ‘dismayed’ as Blueprint 2 testing delay could stretch to 2027
Leading figures backed the move to push back the transformational initiative, but one leading figure tells InsuranceAsia News the implementation could go beyond next year.
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- April 10 2025
With wildfires becoming more intense, damaging and frequent, insurers eye new approaches to coverage
Events in South Korea and Japan highlight the rising threat of wildfire risks in areas and nations where they have traditionally been seen as a non-peak peril.
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- April 8 2025
‘Picky and choosy’ Asta owner Davies seeks to remain on the front foot, with Asia in its sights
Region is very much a part of the insurance-focused professional services provider's strategy for 2030 and beyond, CEO Dan Saulter tells InsuranceAsia News.
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- April 7 2025
New cyber liability ‘risk is real’ for Australian insurers after privacy law change
Cyber Security Act, accompanied by the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024, has increased the companies' responsibilities around cybersecurity, law firms say.
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- April 3 2025
Opinion: As changes at the top leave Lloyd’s exposed, does opportunity knock for Asia?
CEO John Neal is leaving this year, but a replacement has not been found, while the market is also getting a new CFO and chairman at the start of May.
