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- July 6 2026
Not blowout year, but M&A resiliency remains amid soft market, improving geopolitical outlook
Insurer appetite for M&A remained robust in the first half despite a volatile geopolitical backdrop, with three jumbo deals in Japan, Australia and the UK.
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- July 3 2026
Quartet set to vie for South Korean bridge insurer Yebyeol Non-Life: reports
Heungkuk Fire & Marine Insurance, OK Financial Group, JC Flowers, and Korea Investment Holdings are reported to have participated in the second main bid for the South Korean bridge insurer.
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- July 3 2026
Suncorp FY26 nat cat costs top US$1.5bn, exceeds allowance
Australian insurer expects GWP growth of approximately 2.7% for the finacial year ended June 30.
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- July 3 2026
Lockton taps Alberto Ferriolo as Asia regional growth leader for marine, transportation
He joins from Miller in Singapore, and reports to Sung Wook Han, Lockton’s head of Asia marine and transportation.
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- July 3 2026
Darren Toll named Austbrokers Countrywide and Adroit Insurance & Risk businesses group CEO
Tim Considine transitions to a role as group executive chair following the merger between Austbrokers Countrywide and Adroit Insurance & Risk.
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- July 3 2026
Suncorp renews FY27 cat program with higher top-end, 5-year aggregate cover
Carrier reports higher reinsurance costs due to aggregate cover, which is offset by capital efficiency gains, including reduction in excess capital and capital release.
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- July 3 2026
Australia’s Metrix Insurance Group acquires Coverscope Insurance Brokers
It is the first of a strategic pipeline of acquisitions that will continue to support the long-term growth of the Metrix.
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- July 3 2026
Zurich enters Australian home insurance market via new Honey tie-up
Agreement follows a similar partnership to offer pet insurance in March.
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- July 3 2026
‘Forerunners in the unforeseeable’: Knightcorp challenges the status quo in Australia’s consolidated insurance market
CEO Trent Brown tells InsuranceAsia News' Between the Lines podcast that three pillars are redesigning insurance broking from the ground up.
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- July 2 2026
Australia’s cyclone reinsurance pool only part of the answer, brokers association says
National Insurance Brokers Association (NIBA) responds to the release of the fifth and final insurance monitoring report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
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- July 2 2026
Coface taps Ivor Miric as head of debt collection sales for APAC
Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for expanding the debt collection portfolio, having previously worked at Atradius Collections in Dubai.
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- July 2 2026
McLarens appoints Lam Choy Heng as managing director for Malaysia
He has more than 25 years of loss adjusting experience and has been working at McLarens since 2023.
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- July 2 2026
Reinsurance pools must be designed to ‘absorb volatility, not just price for it’: ARPC chief
Affordability and resilience must be addressed together, warning that focusing on one in isolation is unlikely to deliver sustainable outcomes, Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation CEO Christopher Wallace says.
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- July 2 2026
EBM Insurance & Risk hands Ryan Cameron, Ashton George expanded leadership roles
As part of a new national leadership structure, managing director of broking Peter McLachlan will be leaving EBM Group.
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- July 2 2026
Marsh appoints Sylvia Quang as cyber leader for Hong Kong, Macau
Ex-corporate lawyer was previoulsy head of claims advocacy for Hong Kong and Macau having joined the broker in July 2024.
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- July 2 2026
QBE takes full control of Indian JV after regulatory approval, set to rebrand
Australian carrier buys Prism Johnson's 51% stake in Raheja QBE General Insurance for US$35.5m.
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- July 2 2026
QBE Asia elevates Evariste Yeung to Asia head of motor, A&H, householder
Hong Kong-based Yeung joined QBE in April 2024 and has since served as market lead for motor and A&H in the city, as well as Asia product head for motor.
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- July 2 2026
Markel hires Sjoerd A. Blomsma for new marine risk engineering role
Based in Singapore for the newly created specialist role, he reports to Wanshi Lin.
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- July 2 2026
We’ve seen reinsurers’ appetite prevail at 1.7, Gallagher Re’s Roshan Perera says
New managing director and head of APAC tells InsuranceAsia News that while there seems to be some more room for rate reduction, cedents will certainly benefit from more options and flexibility in future renewals.
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- July 2 2026
Exclusive: Continuum hires Howden’s Andy Tam as Hong Kong general manager
Appointment, after almost seven years at Howden in Hong Kong, was confirmed by founder and director Rob Russell.
