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- September 9 2025
World Bank to back 5-year climate shield for Philippines agriculture
US$70 million initiative will create a co-insurance pool that offer protection from escalating climate-related risks.
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- September 9 2025
Marine insurers warned of never-before-seen challenge, geopolitics changing landscape overnight as IUMI opens in Singapore
International Union of Marine Insurance’s (IUMI) annual conference kicked off on Monday in Singapore, with president Frédéric Denèfle and Singapore's minister of state for transport Baey Yam Keng addressing delegates.
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- September 8 2025
Price Forbes hires Eric Wang as head of affinity in Singapore
He will be responsible for leading and growing the company's facultative reinsurance portfolios across key affinity products.
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- September 8 2025
Axa XL appoints Ramesh Sivanathan as principal officer for Malaysia
He takes on the combined role alongside his current position as business lead.
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- September 4 2025
Aon promotes Qin Lu to head of North Asia, Andrew Minnitt to head of Southeast Asia
Pair will expand their current roles to lead the newly-created North Asia and Southeast Asia subregions.
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- September 4 2025
Typhoon Wipha, flooding unlocks US$2m Seadrif parametric payout in Laos
Payout was made under the new sovereign parametric insurance policy issued by the Asian risk pool in May, which features an annual aggregate trigger.
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- September 3 2025
Etiqa General Takaful promotes Khairoel Faiezy Hasnan to CEO
Kuala Lumpur-based Hasnan replaces Shahrul Azuan Mohamed, who has retired after 20 years with Etiqa.
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- September 2 2025
QBE Malaysia appoints Soon Keong Tio as CEO, succeeding Sunther Kuppan
Tio was most recently chief executive of Cambodian carrier Campu Lonpac Insurance.
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- September 2 2025
Asean trio top IUMI’s emerging ‘wish list’ ahead of Singapore conference
International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) secretary general Lars Lange also discusses addressing emerging risks from geopolitics, technology, and sustainability as the industry gathers for the annual conference.
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- September 1 2025
Howden names Vladimir Ljubisavljevic as divisional director for marine, cargo & logistics practice
Singapore-based Ljubisavljevic joins from NorthStandard, where he was the offshore and renewables underwriting director.
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- September 1 2025
MSIG Singapore appoints MSIG Specialty Marine as P&I underwriting agent
Marine specialist MGA will start underwriting P&I risk directly from Singapore from Monday, as first reported by IAN in July.
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- September 1 2025
Product recall cover in the spotlight as US bans Indonesian shrimp over ‘disturbing’ Fukushima radiation link
US Food and Drug Administration has cracked down on imports from BMS Foods, but the link with Japan’s nuclear power plant has been questioned.
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- August 29 2025
Howden Re hires Jonathan Yang as APAC director of fac reinsurance
Singapore-based Yang joins from Marsh, where he had been a senior vice president since April 2021.
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- August 29 2025
Parametric insurance must simplify to boost public sector adoption: Seadrif’s Benedikt Signer
Executive director of the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility outlines its mission to enhance insurance adoption in public sectors by simplifying product design and addressing market gaps.
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- August 28 2025
SRG hires fac specialist John Jackson as APAC head of reinsurance
Jackson joins from Marnix Insurance Brokers, where he was a director for over 11 years.
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- August 27 2025
Hanoi flooding from Typhoon Kajiki expected to result in limited commercial claims
While the windstorm has caused significant damage, it did not hit the industrial areas, unlike Typhoon Yagi last year.
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- August 27 2025
Analytics: Lloyd’s Asia surpasses US$1bn GWP milestone in 2024 amid double-digit growth
Offshore fund demonstrates strong performance despite challenges in the Singapore unit and varied underwriting results across business lines.
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- August 26 2025
Zurich Malaysia promotes Yuan Feng Hoo to chief pricing actuary
Hoo, who has also been handed head of technical excellence role, has previously held multiple P&C leadership positions with the insurer.
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- August 26 2025
Aon Re hands Lin Mun Lee client manager role in Malaysia
She previously spent almost a decade with Aon reinsurance Malaysia as a treaty broker.
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- August 26 2025
QBE taps veteran Stephen Geisler to succeed Ronak Shah as South Asia CEO
Marsh's Ross Bethell has also been appointed as head of partnerships for Asia, with both set to report to QBE Asia CEO Rob Kosova.
