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- October 1 2025
Brookfield closes first reinsurance deal in Japan
The flow deal allows Dai-ichi Frontier Life to reinsure liabilities to American National Insurance Company starting October.
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- October 1 2025
Allstate Underwriting, MSI partner to serve Australia’s SME farm insurance
MSI will provide capacity for Allstate’s ‘farm-pack’ product, offering coverage to property risks and vehicle exposures.
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- October 1 2025
Australia starts consultation on terrorism and cyclone reinsurance legislation
The Treasury has launched a statutory review of the Terrorism and Cyclone Insurance Act 2003, inviting public feedback on the relevance and governance of national reinsurance pools.
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- October 1 2025
MS&AD to rebrand as Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group after merger of domestic P&C arms
The group will rename the combined domestic non-life insurance businesses as Mitsui Sumitomo Aioi Insurance from April 2027.
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- October 1 2025
XS Global to expand into APAC, names new CEO and casualty underwriting manager
Appointments of Steven Barnett and Wendy Law come as XS Global, part of The Rainmaker Group, is set to begin operations in the region.
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- October 1 2025
Willis promotes Ollie Moore as Pacific head of broking
Moore has been at Willis since 2023 and has played a 'key role' in the growth of its financial and professional risks business in the Pacific.
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- October 1 2025
Typhoon Bualoi: damage to Vietnamese thermal power plant may trigger reinsurance claims
Starr is the lead reinsurer for the PVI-led insurance program of the supercritical project in the northern Ha Tinh province, InsuranceAsia News understands.
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- October 1 2025
WTW taps Carrie Tan to lead crisis management division in Asia
With nearly a decade of experience in underwriting and claims, Tan joins from Talbot Risk Services.
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- September 30 2025
Circles Group names Charlie Egar as underwriting manager for assets, fine arts
Industry veteran earlier held underwriter roles at Sportscover Europe, Eaton Gate, and Artsure.
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- September 30 2025
Chris Mackinnon to leave Lloyd’s in 2026 to pursue new opportunities
He has been head of Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa (APMEA) since March.
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- September 30 2025
UIB Asia recruits Le Tram Nguyen as executive director for treaty and retro
Industry veteran joins the Singapore-based reinsurance broker from Hannover Re, where she most recently led Indochina operations.
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- September 30 2025
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred accounts for over 90% of pool claims since inception, ARPC says
The cyclone pool received 101,888 claims from the cyclone that affected Queensland and New South Wales during February and March, totalling to US$650m.
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- September 30 2025
Market Lane launches specialty reinsurance MGA
The Lane Re will offer facultative solutions to the Australian and New Zealand commercial property market, said group CEO David Porteous.
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- September 30 2025
Opinion: ‘Dib dib dob dob’: Hong Kong’s disaster risk management leads the way, highlighted by subdued Super Typhoon Ragasa losses
Most powerful tropical cyclone of the year to date impacted Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China, Taiwan and the Philippines last week.
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- September 30 2025
Athene enters block reinsurance deal with Sony Life
Deal will reinsure in-force block of US dollar denominated whole life insurance policies and retrocede all mortality risk associated with the block to Swiss Re.
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- September 29 2025
Sony’s financial services arm closes up 16% after rare direct listing
Financial services arm of the Japanese conglomerate includes life insurer Sony Life and property and casualty carrier Sony Assurance, as well as Sony Bank.
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- September 29 2025
Hong Kong’s curtailed Super Typhoon Ragasa economic losses under US$400m: report
Claims mainly from wind and flooding, with water damage across all affected territories, David Seng, technical and strategic projects director at Sedgwick in Asia also tells InsuranceAsia News.
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- September 29 2025
Aon names Koachakorn Panyangam as power specialty director for Asia
Singapore-based Panyangam joins Aon Global Risk Consulting having previously spent over five years at FM.
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- September 29 2025
Mapfre Re targets billion-euro Asian GWP milestone: Javier Sánchez Cea
Spanish reinsurer places Asia Pacific at the heart of its growth strategy, with life reinsurance in China and India as key drivers, alongside casualty, says chief regional officer.
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- September 29 2025
Aon hires Shinji Kuriyama as APAC enterprise client leader in Japan
Tokyo-based Kuriyama, who joins from BNP Paribas, will lead the broker's relationships with Japanese clients globally.
