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- March 24 2025
APAC firms preparing to fail as ‘jarring’ cyber shortfall emerges despite increased threat
Companies’ vulnerabilities are growing as attack surface has increased and there is real prospect of regulatory intervention, consumer action and long-term reputational damage.
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- March 18 2025
‘More players, more capacity, more specialisation’: Asia renewables market set to shine as green transition gathers pace
Recent months have seen new high-profile entrants into the Asia renewables market, with further capacity growth and product innovation on the table for 2025 and beyond.
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- March 12 2025
Opinion: As APAC’s nat cat bill rises along with the nerves of insurers, is it time for governments to lend a hand?
Commercial (re)insurance market across Asia-Pacific faces an increasing severity and frequency of climate-related risks, which are seen as the defining challenge of our time, with stakes particularly high for the region.
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- March 3 2025
APAC fac demand set to thrive in 2025 as buyers seek solutions for mixed bag of old, new risks
Increased interest in cyber products anticipated as local market continues to mature and specialised products come onstream.
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- February 27 2025
As ‘direction of travel’ shifts, attention turns to APAC terrorism pools in wake of UK changes
Decision by Pool Re to move to a more commercial model poses questions for Australian and Indian schemes.
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- February 26 2025
‘Untainted appetite’, capacity remains for aviation programs despite high-profile losses
Aviation (re)insurance sector remains a buyer’s market, although uncertainty remains following high-profile losses in the US and South Korea.
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- February 20 2025
Opinion: Peter Dutton’s poorly thought-through proposals for Australian insurers are a shambles
Australia’s opposition leader suggested that his party would extend their policy of forcing supermarket chains to divest some of their assets into the insurance sector.
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- February 12 2025
Opinion: With fires, floods ripping through limits, will carriers get with the program?
Insurers handed wake-up call after LA fires and Queensland floods usher in 2025.
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- February 3 2025
Asia Pacific leads the way in Chubb’s 2024 top line growth: Greenberg
Region was Chubb’s standout P&C performer, with net written premium growth of 22% compared with a year earlier.
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- January 24 2025
30 years after Kobe earthquake, Japan seeks to improve data amid ‘megaquake’ warning
Space agency signs deal to estimate extent of damage to buildings caused by earthquakes using high-definition satellite images.
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- January 21 2025
With US$100bn losses now the norm, rising attachment points create new dynamic for cat programs
Scale of nat cat losses needed to turn the market continues to rise as structural changes in reinsurance programs bed in across Asia Pacific.
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- January 14 2025
Asian IP insurance market poised for growth as legislations evolve
Emergence of South-East Asia as a manufacturing hub, and the rise of AI, driving demand for protection, observers say.
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- January 9 2025
Opinion: Booming MGAs can no longer be ignored, but regulatory spectre looms
MGAs must demonstrate robust risk selection and underwriting capability as regulators train their guns on the sector.
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- December 20 2024
The heat is on for India: climate change, rapid urbanisation set to weigh on BI losses
The country's business interruption insurance market is set to face challenges from heat stress and urban flooding.
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- December 17 2024
Energy transition needs pragmatism over good intentions, says WTW’s Au
The broker’s regional climate practice lead calls for a nuanced approach which recognises the realities of moving to net zero within realistic time frames.
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- December 6 2024
IFRS 17 readiness and implementation “not fit for purpose” for some APAC players
There are “specific pockets” where problems with IFRS 17 are still manifest in the Asia market, including aspects of reporting.
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- November 26 2024
Nexus seeks profit above volume as it eyes growth in A&H reinsurance in Asia
Underlying demand for the product remains a driving force propelling the market across the region, says managing director Peter Slot.
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- November 22 2024
Opinion: Will generative AI be a game-changer when it comes to risk modelling?
Algorithms can, in theory, be trained to create predictive models to analyse satellite imagery of cat-affected regions across Asia or forecast a typhoon’s trajectory as well as estimate potential damage and identify high-risk areas.
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- November 18 2024
Modellers step up efforts on flood models amid rising secondary peril risk in APAC
Verisk and Moody’s RMS indicate they are listening to the concerns of the market and have laid out plans to “close the gap”.
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- November 7 2024
Miller Insurance sets sights on expansion in Japan and South Korea as it continues to plough its APAC furrow
The broker is opening soon in South Korea and plans to “build pretty deep there”, and has some other plans in other territories to go too, said Ron Whyte.
