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- August 16 2021
Q&A: PICC Re’s Qing Zhang talks reinsurance digitalisation
The reinsurer's president tells InsuranceAsia News the firm is looking to grow in Asia, Europe and North America.
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- August 6 2021
Henan flood claims surpass US$1.74bn
The local CBIRC office says insurers have received over 500,000 claims so far.
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- August 5 2021
Cyber insurance pricing hardens as attacks escalate
Lloyd's webinar told that cyber cover has been underpriced for many years.
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- August 3 2021
APRA stress tests show (re)insurers’ resilience amid Covid-19
The regulator says there is room to improve stress testing capabilities across the insurance industry.
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- August 3 2021
Indian insurtech Policybazaar to raise US$809m in IPO
The company lost Rs1.5bn in FY 2020 compared with a Rs3bn loss the previous year.
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- August 2 2021
Taiwan’s insurers see H1 profits grow 148.5% to US$9.71bn
FSC data shows P&C profits grew 54.4% in the first half of 2021.
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- July 30 2021
China’s insurers to manage Henan flood losses: AM Best
Rating agency cites portfolio diversification and state reinsurance protection as mitigating factors.
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- July 29 2021
Asia sees growing potential in agriculture (re)insurance
Asia will soon generate 50% of global agriculture premiums according to a Lloyd's webinar.
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- July 28 2021
ZYIC maintains credit rating despite Henan flooding
AM Best cautions that the full extent of claims in the province is still unknown.
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- July 26 2021
Berkley Re Asia chief adds Australia CEO role to mandate
Glen Riddell is expected to assume the dual role before the end of the year.
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- July 26 2021
Central Re keeps positive underwriting result, eyes overseas expansion
The Taiwan-based reinsurer is set to continue expansion into Europe, the Middle East and South-East Asia.
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- July 26 2021
Henan’s heavy flooding triggers over US$800m of claims
Typhoon In-Fa expected to bring even more problems in the coming days.
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- July 23 2021
Marsh maintains strong Asia growth momentum in Q2
Broker's 10% revenue rise in the region is an increase over 8% in the first quarter.
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- July 22 2021
Canterbury flood claims surpass US$30m
The May 29-June 1 flooding has been described as a ‘one in 200-year event’ by a climate scientist.
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- July 21 2021
China’s Henan province sees ‘thousand-year’ floods
Ping An P&C has already received 13,000 claims and that number is expected to rise sharply.
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- July 20 2021
Typhoons threaten agriculture in three China provinces
Ministry of Agriculture urges insurers to settle any claims promptly amid uncertainty over landfall.
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- July 20 2021
IAG appoints Zurich’s Tim Plant as chief insurance & strategy officer
Justin Delaney to replace Plant as head of Zurich's Australia and NZ general insurance operations.
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- July 19 2021
China puts Dajia Insurance on the auction block for US$5.2bn
Beijing is selling off the caretaker firm managing the assets of the now defunct Anbang Insurance Group.
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- July 16 2021
China sees 5.2% premium growth in H1 2021
CBIRC figures show total premium income hit US$449bn by the end of June.
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- July 16 2021
Labuan pushes digitalisation and inclusion
(Re)insurers in the Malaysian financial hub saw GWP rise 6.7% to US$1.6bn in 2020.
