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- August 11 2025
Richard Jones starts at Gallagher Re as chairman for Southeast Asia, Taiwan and South Korea
Kyung Won and Vinay Ananthanarayanan have also started at the reinsurance broker, as revealed by IAN in February.
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- August 11 2025
State Bank of India mulls listing general insurance arm: reports
State-owned lender is planning to IPO SBI General Insurance and SBI Mutual Fund, chairman says.
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- August 11 2025
Swiss Re CorSo’s Preeti Sawalani swaps London for Singapore role
Sawalani returns to the city to lead the customer and distribution strategy in Southeast Asia.
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- August 11 2025
Hong Kong goes up the gears, hands Chinese carmaker SAIC regulatory approval for captive
Second authorisation of its kind in 2025, reflecting signs of momentum building to develop Hong Kong into a captive domicile, regulator says.
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- August 11 2025
Willis hires Brian Fung as associate director for greater China M&A
Hong Kong-based Fung joins after four years at Aon.
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- August 11 2025
Markel eyes Australia marine growth with senior hire
Markel is expanding its marine offering in Australia beyond long tail lines with the appointment of Tim Wills.
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- August 11 2025
Australia’s new ‘hard line’ M&A rules snag small, mid-cap insurers amid overreach warning
Insurers and brokers face higher merger costs and greater execution risks as a result of the Australian government's new mandatory merger notification rules, competition lawyers say.
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- August 11 2025
MS&AD Holdings’ Q1 profit up 19% to US$1.6bn
The Tokyo-headquartered giant reported strong overseas topline growth, domestic business reports no nat cat losses.
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- August 11 2025
MSC Elsa 3 owner seeks to cap liability as Indian state government files US$1bn suit
The lawsuit by the owner of the container ship that sank off the India coast seeks to limit the amount of potential claims to US$14.2m citing the large number of claims already filed.
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- August 8 2025
Bridge Specialty hires Price Forbes’ Abhishek Chhajer as Asia chief executive
Brown & Brown-owned broking group has two brokers in the region, Singapore-based Acorn and Hong Kong-based Capstone.
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- August 8 2025
Amiga Specialty confirms first international expansion in Hong Kong
Specialty MGA appoints Ralph Sherbahn as managing director for financial lines in Asia Pacific.
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- August 8 2025
Capstone’s Dan Dibden launches crypto-focused broker in Hong Kong
Fraction will predominately focus on the digital asset ecosystem, assisting companies throughout Asia on risk transfer solutions.
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- August 8 2025
QBE H1 profit rises 27% to over US$1bn; COR improves to 92.8%
Australian insurer's GWP in the first half of the year grew 11% to US$13.82bn, buoyant on stronger performance in core segments offsetting the drag from crop and non-core exits.
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- August 8 2025
Howden Specialty Asia Pacific promotes Matthew Savitt
Singapore-based Savitt takes up the role of managing director and head of natural resources.
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- August 8 2025
HDI expands Hong Kong engineering team with double appointment
Steven Tang and Chris Yang join from global reinsurer Scor.
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- August 8 2025
India’s Equirus Raghnall appoints Aman Gaur as national head for risk engineering
Mumbai-based Gaur joins having spent the last 11 months as a consultant engineer within the Asia-Pacific division at FM.
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- August 8 2025
Gallagher acquires New Zealand’s Insure Taranaki
New Plymouth-based broker, founded in 2016, will trade under the Gallagher brand following the deal.
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- August 8 2025
Opinion: No handouts, please!: How long should the taxpayer foot the bill for India’s partly bad, partly good insurance market?
Reports suggest the government is once again considering a capital injection for its three state-owned domestic insurers are concerning.
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- August 7 2025
Tokio Marine’s Q1 results handed domestic nat cats boost, strong overseas results
Domestic COR improved by 13.3 points to 86.2% in Q1 FY25, while international non-life businesses' topline grew 4.3% year on year.
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- August 7 2025
Zurich’s APAC H1 non-life GWP grows 14% to top US$2bn
Growth driven by motor and SME portfolios, commercial insurance expansion in India and Malaysia and digital partnerships.
