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- August 4 2025
Willis appoints Azad Kumar as energy, construction, marine growth leader in India
Mumbai-based Kumar joins the broker from UIB Insurance Brokers, where he was head of energy.
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- August 4 2025
Mitigation key to tackling Asia’s emerging supply chain, battery, data centre risks: FM’s Martin Au-Yeung
Vice president and client service manager for North Asia also tells InsuranceAsia News' Between The Lines podcast that given the region’s diversity and lack of data, keeping a lid on the cost of risk is a balancing act.
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- August 2 2025
Full Capacity: Markel’s reinsurance gambit
This week's newsletter discusses the region Aon (Re)-jig, updates on Marsh and Chubb's M&A deals, and half year nat cat loss and Markel's decision to exit global reinsurance.
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- August 1 2025
Allianz Commercial Japan hires Munich Re’s Brian Jinzenji as representative director and president
Insurer also promotes Yuichiro Funabashi to representative director and executive vice president for Japan.
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- August 1 2025
Markel to divest US$1.2bn global reinsurance renewal rights to US carrier Nationwide
Markel's global reinsurance division will enter run-off with a large number of underwriters moving to Ryan Re, which will be delegated by Nationwide to manage all renewal policies.
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- July 31 2025
Perils expands SCS coverage to Japan, New Zealand
New service will capture SCS industry losses above JPY100bn and NZD300m as of August 1.
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- July 31 2025
IG P&I tightens restrictions on Russian oil shipments as EU, UK reduce price cap
Sanctions include ban on 105 'shadow fleet' vessels and asset freezes on new entities, including Indian refinery Nayara Energy.
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- July 31 2025
Aon names Rupert Moore APAC reinsurance CEO
Moore, who was UK reinsurance CEO for three years, will relocate to Singapore and will also take over as regional chairman of the broker's strategy and technology group.
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- July 31 2025
Descartes elevates Ben Qin as APAC head
Parametric specialist MGA also promotes WeeBeng Seow as acting head of Southeast Asia.
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- July 30 2025
Insurance market dynamics present ‘unique, temporary’ window of opportunity for insurance buyers: Aon
Increased capacity, improving terms and competitive pricing continues across wide swaths of the market, broker’s Global Insurance Market Insights report says.
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- July 30 2025
Rising losses in benign cat year point to ‘background noise’ of climate change: Munich Re’s Tobias Grimm
APAC events highlight unpredictability of catastrophes, resulting in unprecedented amounts of rainfall, storms, wildfires and earthquakes in areas that have never experienced them, says the reinsurer's top climate expert.
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- July 29 2025
APAC H1 insured losses hit US$4.4bn, global claims top US$80bn: Munich Re
Earthquake that rocked Myanmar and Thailand, ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred in Australia, as well January quake events in China and Taiwan. were the major loss drivers in Asia Pacific.
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- July 29 2025
Critical mass achieved, MS Amlin focused on APAC consolidation after robust growth: CEO William Ho
He also tells InsuranceAsia News about the regional strategy for the Lloyd's carrier in light of changing market conditions, ANZ expansion and the future of its ILS platform, Phoenix Re.
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- July 28 2025
Marsh to acquire Mitsubishi Electric’s in-house insurance agency in Japan
Shares of Mitsubishi Electric Insurance Service will be transferred to the global broker in November.
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- July 28 2025
Aon’s John Morley joins Swiss crypto carrier 1B as CEO
Insurer plans to establish offices in Asia, including in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
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- July 26 2025
Full capacity: APAC rates dive – a call for caution?
This week's newsletter discusses the impact of rate reduction in the region, Allianz's re-entry into the Indian market, APAC construction inurance market new Lloyd's cyber consortium in Singapore, Consilium's regional foray, and IRDAI's new chairman.
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- July 24 2025
India appoints former finance secretary Ajay Seth as IRDAI chairman
The all-important regulatory post has been lying vacant for over four months, after the tenure of the previous chairman Debasish Panda ended in March.
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- July 24 2025
Specialty broker Consilium opens Singapore office, appoints Descartes’ Rob Drysdale as CEO
Cedent fac specilaist will initially focus on property, power and energy in the region.
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- July 24 2025
MS Amlin names Christiern Dart as CEO, Andrew Carrier moves to Mitsui Sumitomo group role
Dart, who joins from Brit, will start in January, with incumbent Carrier joining MSI as executive officer.
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- July 23 2025
Munich Re CEO Joachim Wenning to retire, succeeded by CFO Christoph Jurecka
Wenning, who has been leading the reinsurer from 2017, will step down at the end of the year.
