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- October 2 2025
Regulatory pressure weighs on Korean digital insurers: report
The industry is calling for regulations tailored to startup carriers, including easing the application of K-ICS.
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- October 2 2025
Gallagher Re appoints Jennifer Wen as executive director in Taiwan
Wen has more than 30 years of experience across the reinsurance treaty markets in Taiwan and Guam.
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- October 2 2025
Sompo promotes Li Li Leong as Singapore head of actuarial
Leong will report to Mudit Gupta, chief actuary, Asia Pacific, with a matrix reporting line into Singapore CEO Pui Phusangmook.
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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
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
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
Correction: WTW taps Carrie Tan as division director in terrorism and political violence team
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
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
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
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.
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- September 28 2025
Nova drives 24% FY25 growth amidst China expansion
Hong Kong-listed FSE Lifestyle Services’ insurance arms posted a 23.9% jump in revenue for FY25, powered by new placements and growth by Beijing Nova.
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- September 26 2025
Everest taps Simon Lim to lead APAC multinational network strategy
Lim, who joins the firm following a long tenure at AIG, will support the expansion of multinational capabilities across the region.
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- September 26 2025
DB Insurance clinches US$1.65bn deal for US specialty carrier Fortegra
The Korean insurer will acquire a 100% of the Warburg Pincus-backed Tiptree subsidiary.
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- September 26 2025
Malaysian (re)insurance broker HLAP expands to Vietnam with business development director hire
Vietnam-based Kieu An over 30 years of insurance experience and will report directly to CEO Lee Warner.
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- September 26 2025
Super Typhoon Ragasa’s impact less than feared in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau
Despite widespread reports of property losses, claims from the strongest storm of the year are expected to be much smaller than that from Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018, loss adjusters tell IAN.
