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- July 16 2024
Bangkok Insurance COR projected at 85%-90% over the next two years: S&P Global
The rating agency has affirmed the carrier's 'A-' local currency long-term issuer credit and financial strength rating to the insurer, with a stable outlook, and expects its capital adequacy to remain above its 99.95% confidence level over the next two years.
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- July 15 2024
Ping An Insurance eyes US$3.5bn fundraise: report
The insurer will raise the funds through a convertible bond offering, according to a Bloomberg report.
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- July 15 2024
Peak Re promotes David Menezes as chief risk officer
Hong Kong-based Menezes has been serving as the deputy chief risk officer at the global reinsurer since September 2022.
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- July 15 2024
China’s nat cat economic losses hit US$13bn in H1 2024 as flood claims rise
95,000 claims from the intense rain across eight southern China provinces have reached CNY3.21bn, according to NFRA's latest data.
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- July 13 2024
Great Eastern privatisation deal falls short of compulsory acquisition threshold
Trading in Great Eastern shares will be suspended after OCBC failed to garner enough shares from minority shareholders, putting the take-private bid and the insurer's listing status in a stalemate.
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- July 12 2024
China Taiping former deputy manager pleads guilty to accepting US$11m in bribes
The former insurance industry top boss, who had served China Taiping Insurance Group and China Life Insurance, now awaits a verdict from the Intermediate People's Court of Xinxiang in Henan province.
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- July 12 2024
Berkley Insurance Asia promotes Hank Yeo to financial lines senior underwriter
Singapore-based Yeo has been with the insurer since 2020, focusing on directors and officers liability, professional liability, and investment management insurance.
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- July 11 2024
Allianz Commercial names Young Jeong Lee as head of financial lines, Korea
Lee joined from Samsung Fire & Marine, where he worked 12 years as a senior professional in its finance and energy department and global strategy department.
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- July 11 2024
Chinese carrier Zhonglu’s underwriting risk selection tested by business expansion: Fitch
The rating agency has affirmed its 'BBB' rating with a stable outlook, adding that its growth expectation through 2026 may expose it to larger cat losses.
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- July 11 2024
SBI General Insurance taps Liberty’s Udayan Joshi as chief technical & claims officer
The former president of Liberty General Insurance in Mumbai has joined the Indian insurer where he will be in charge of shaping its underwriting and reinsurance initiatives.
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- July 11 2024
Sompo ropes in AIG’s Bill Zhang as consumer lines president for APAC
Zhang will be responsible for leading the consumer lines strategy and operating model across Asia Pacific, reporting to Kenneth Reilly, APAC CEO of insurance.
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- July 11 2024
Asia carriers looking to extend renewables capacity as projects soar
Large and complex regional projects exposed to nat cat risks could still find it hard to secure insurance as they require specialist underwriting expertise from London markets.
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- July 10 2024
Toa Re FY 2023 net income up six-fold on investment gains
The group's net written premiums dropped 12.5% to JPY280.8bn (US$1.7bn), as its US and European subsidiaries reversed their losses posted a year ago.
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- July 10 2024
Axa elevates Torsten Blake Bohm as CIO for Hong Kong, Macau
Bohm, who has held a number of senior roles with Axa in Hong Kong, replaces Fanda Ho, who is understood to have left the carrier.
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- July 10 2024
Aon promotes Marguerita Silitonga to Indonesia president director of reinsurance solutions
Jakarta-based Silitonga will be responsible for driving growth and managing all operations in the country. She reports to Musa Adlan, executive director and head of Aon's Reinsurance Solutions in South-East Asia.
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- July 10 2024
India’s ACC approves appointments of executive directors at eight public sector insurance firms: report
These include appointments of top executives with tenures ranging from less than a year to four years.
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- July 10 2024
Zurich turbocharges Hong Kong EV insurance business by courting used car owners
As a key growth area for the city, Zurich has dialled up its effort to attract EV policyholders to switch from competitors and is exploring more product opportunities for the Greater Bay Area, says Clement Hau, chief underwriting officer for general insurance, Hong Kong.
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- July 9 2024
Mapfre Re promotes Alberto Estévez Allegue to Tokyo chief representative officer
Estévez Allegue, who has been with the reinsurer for over 12 years, was most recently project development expert director at the carrier's APAC regional management based in Madrid.
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- July 9 2024
+8 Partners ropes in Eric Fady as strategic advisor
With over 20 years of experience, Fady will advise the (re)insurance intermediary on financial strategy, acquisitions and major financial transactions.
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- July 8 2024
Tokio Marine Kiln taps Zurich’s Yang Yixiang as head of Asia Pacific A&H
The appointment is aligned with the specialty insurer's strategy of doubling its premiums written in the region through its Lloyd’s Asia platform by 2027.
