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- November 5 2026
SIRC 2026: Verisk anticipates roll-out of further flood risk models across APAC of further flood risk models across the APAC region
Risk modeller plans releases for Australia, New Zealand and Japan as frequency losses move centre stage, Ashish Jain, vice president and managing director for APAC catastrophe and risk solutions, says.
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- November 4 2026
SIRC 2026: India’s reinsurance boom risks triggering pricing pressure, Moody’s Alok Kumar warns
New domestic and international entrants have swelled capacity, the managing director and head of Global Analytical Services says.
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- November 4 2026
SIRC 2026: Innovative thinking can help close Asia’s protection gap, IUA CEO Chris Jones says
London must move beyond exporting conventional policies and address Asia's actual protection gaps through parametric covers, risk engineering and public-private partnerships.
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- November 4 2026
SIRC 2026: Diary day three – Taxi driver
Marcus Alcock shares his thoughts from the Sands Expo & Convention Centre.
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- November 4 2026
SIRC 2026: ICEYE sees wider utilisation of satellite data as take-up expands across Asia Pacific
Firm is ‘aiming to not become a cat modelling company’, says Stephen Lathrope, but to be the best at supporting clients' preparation for and response to nat cat events.
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- November 3 2026
SIRC 2026: Diary day two – Imposter syndrome
Marcus Alcock shares his thoughts from the Sands Expo & Convention Centre.
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- November 2 2026
SIRC 2026: ‘Cyber risk is not static, it’s volatile and evolves with any given day’: Beazley
Jessica Schappell, Beazley's head of Asia Pacific, talks about APAC growth opportunities, evolving cyber demand, a softening market, and closing the underinsurance gap.
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- November 2 2026
SIRC 2026: AI will ‘go all the way’ to autonomous underwriting, Scor’s Thierry Léger predicts
CEO predicts AI will eventually reach fully autonomous underwriting, but says the firm has deliberately stopped at human-in-the-loop level.
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- November 2 2026
SIRC 2026: Diary day one – Resisting temptation?
Marcus Alcock shares his thoughts from the Sands Expo & Convention Centre.
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- November 2 2026
SIRC 2026: Softening rates, Hong Kong’s ILS ambitions, India’s opening market to dominate in Singapore
Attendees will focus on competitive pricing and broader structures, nat cat and parametric solutions, M&A momentum, and the rise of India's Gift City and Hong Kong as regional reinsurance hubs.
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- October 14 2026
‘Sense of fatalism’ abounds over assessment of impact of conflict on supply chains
The market struggles to innovate on supply chain contingent business interruption and to quantify manufacturing network and financial contagion risk, Russell Group’s Suki Basi says.
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- October 13 2026
Opinion: Barcelona floods are a wake-up call on urban flood risk
Urban flooding can be intensely local, with a cloudburst overwhelming drainage, inundating basements, and knocking out transport, utilities, and businesses without the dramatic footprint of a major typhoon.
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- October 5 2026
As APAC risk transfer market opens up, Marsh Re eyes parametric wind, bushfire cover
Broker's Raincell flood solution for Australia signals broader parametric push, head of Catastrophe Advisory in Asia Pacific Jeremy Waite tells InsuranceAsia News.
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- September 30 2026
APAC accumulation risk adding up as insurance penetration grows, Perils’ Darryl Pidcock says
Flood and convective storms are among the underappreciated perils driving losses from India to Australia, with better loss data needed as urbanisation concentrates exposure.
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- September 28 2026
Buyers returning to APAC property retro market, trend set to continue: Marsh Re
Substantial limit growth this year comes amidst a broader market underpinned by record levels of capital, head of global clients and global specialties Matthew Flynn says.
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- September 18 2026
Asia reinsurance market ‘some way off’ diminished strength, Gallagher Re’s David Bangs says
Broker's head of APAC UK expects ample capacity and a buyer’s market to persist across the region, with reinsurers offering increasingly varied solutions.
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- September 11 2026
RVS 2026: Back to the reinsurance drawing board? 6 APAC takeaways from Monte Carlo
Record capital, falling property rates and a scramble for growth dominated this year’s Rendez-Vous de Septembre, in a market where overhaul of programs is very much on the agenda.
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- September 9 2026
Opinion: In a time of war, will other Asian nations follow in Japan’s wake?
Japan is the latest to explore a state-sponsored marine insurance scheme, but the move raises profound questions for maritime reinsurance across Asia.
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- September 4 2026
‘Rate reductions are the fuel, not the finish line’, Gallagher Re’s Lippmann says
Speaking ahead of Rendez-Vous de Septembre, which starts on Saturday in Monaco, the global head of property says buyers are benefitting from the strongest negotiating position in more than a decade.
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- September 2 2026
Has the market learned its lesson? Questions remain over P&C reserve adequacy as ratings continue to deteriorate
A quarter-century after Independent Insurance’s collapse, P&C reserve adequacy is back in focus as rates fall and capital questions mount.
