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- February 26 2025
Markel continues marine expansion with Singapore hull, war lead hire
Galvin Hu, who will report to head of Singapore Wanshi Lin, will be responsible for spearheading the specialty carrier's underwriting strategy in APAC.
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- February 24 2025
Sompo reshuffles APAC commercial lines team in Singapore, Hong Kong
Kelly Koh, Victoria Soo and Szeto Ophelia will be 'instrumental in driving their respective lines of business across the region', according to the carrier.
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- February 24 2025
Munich Re names Hanh Nguyen head of treaty P&C underwriting for Southeast Asia, India
Nguyen has been deputy head since July, and will succeed Joachim Zagrosek on March 1.
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- February 24 2025
WTW hands Joule-Tobias Howard new role as lead fac broker in Asia
He has been with the broker for almost eight and a half years, and was most recently head of pacific property for Asia.
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- February 20 2025
Chubb Malaysia appoints ex-Olympian Danil Bugakov as P&C head
Bugakov, who represented Uzbekistan at the Athens and Beijing Olympic Games, joins having spent over 11 and a half years with Hannover Re.
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- February 20 2025
Markel names Alicia Leong head of marine liabilities in Singapore
She joins from Munich Re Specialty – Global Markets, Syndicate, where she spent close to 10 years as a marine liability underwriter.
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- February 18 2025
Labuan Re names Zaid Aziz Ibrahim new CEO
Malaysian reinsurer also appoints Melissa Karim as acting head of underwriting.
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- February 18 2025
Swiss Re CorSo adds Aristya Wu as underwriter to APAC trade finance, working capital solutions team
Singapore-based Wu joins from Allianz Trade having also worked for Liberty Specialty Markets, Aon and AIA.
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- February 18 2025
Aon appoints Jennifer Richards as Asia Pacific CEO
Richards will take up the role vacated by Anne Corona and will relocate from Australia to Singapore in the coming months.
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- February 17 2025
Vietnamese coffee farmers receive first-ever payout from Willis’ parametric policy
The risk transfer solution, backed by the Natural Disaster Fund and in partnership with Bao Minh Insurance, uses satellite data to measure rainfall levels in the country’s coffee-growing regions.
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- February 17 2025
Increasing costs, reduced profitability main challenge for SMEs in Hong Kong and Singapore: QBE
In Hong Kong, staff acquisition and retention and labour shortage is the second biggest concern for 50% of SMEs, while in Singapore, 56% of respondents are worried about sales growth and reduced customer spending.
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- February 17 2025
GAIP appoints Min Hung Cheng as interim CEO following John Maroney departure
Singapore-based Cheng will assume the role from March 18 until a new CEO is appointed.
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- February 14 2025
Global Asia Insurance Partnership names Dickson Wong as director
With over 15 years of experience in the general insurance industry across Australia and Asia, Singapore-based Wong is a seasoned actuary specialising in risk and actuarial areas.
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- February 14 2025
Tokio Marine Kiln takes Talbot’s Jack Skinner as APAC head of political violence
Skinner was most recently a class underwriter at the AIG-owned Lloyd's syndicate based in Singapore.
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- February 12 2025
Hannover Re promotes James Ng to Malaysia CEO
Kuala Lumpur-based Ng, who joined the reinsurer last year, was the carrier's head of property and casualty in Malaysia.
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- February 10 2025
BOC Aviation settles Irish lawsuits against insurers over stranded Russian jets: report
SMBC Aviation Capital has, meanwhile, reached settlements with Swiss Re and Scor Europe, two of the 18 insurers it is pursuing litgation against.
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- February 7 2025
Great Eastern General Insurance Malaysia names Jeremy Yeap as CEO
Yeap succeeds Ng Kok Kheng, who retired at the end of January having served as CEO for 17 years.
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- February 5 2025
Allianz Partners names Dominic Ganter as MD for Greater SE Asia
Gantner, who joined the company in 2019, was most recently managing director for Southeast Europe.
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- February 4 2025
FM promotes Singapore-based Chia Howe Chang to broker engagement manager
Chang, who has worked at the commercial insurer for 14 years in two separate stints, was most recently global services executive.
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- February 3 2025
Generali Malaysia promotes Lee Chee Fooi as chief distribution officer
The carrier has also promoted chief commercial lines officer Soo Wai Har as CEO of Generali Life Insurance Malaysia, as incumbent Rebecca Tan heads to Generali Indonesia as chief executive.
