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- November 19 2025
Cynthia Yuan Xi named head of China Re’s climate risk research centre
Former Fosun Insurance Group CFO has been at China Re in Beijing since March 2019.
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- November 18 2025
Hannover Re names Yan Sun as new L&H head for greater China
She replaces Niall Mulvey, who has joined Partner Re as chief underwriting officer for life and health.
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- November 18 2025
The Hartford locks in Asia specialty focus, but ‘exciting pipeline’ still on the cards: Carl Bach
Hartford Underwriting Agency CEO anticipates regional GWP to grow 30% to US$25m in 2025, driven by new Lloyd's office in Singapore and established Hong Kong and Shanghai operations.
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- November 14 2025
Underwriting, investment gains to support ZhongAn’s profitability: AM Best
Rating agency revises its outlook to positive from stable and affirmed ZhongAn’s A- (excellent) rating.
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- November 4 2025
China Taiping to sustain quality growth with prudent investment strategy: Fitch Ratings
Fitch says China Taiping’s consolidated credit quality has been raised to a, from a-, reflecting the group’s sustained capital strength, resilient profitability and 'most favourable' company profile.
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- November 2 2025
NEVs, emerging business lines to drive growth for Chinese insurers amid economic slowdown: AM Best
Rating agency maintains its stable outlook on China’s non-life insurance segment, citing resilient premium growth supported by regulatory initiatives, product diversification, and expansion into new sectors.
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- October 30 2025
China empowers mainland insurers to issue sidecars in Hong Kong
NFRA notice on ILS seeks to enhance catastrophe risk management capabilities of Chinese insurers and strengthen Hong Kong's position as an international risk management hub.
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- October 27 2025
Axa Tianping P&C handed rating upgrade as portfolio rejig, parent support strengthen performance
S&P Global raised Axa Tianping’s financial strength and long-term issuer credit ratings to ‘A’ from ‘A-’, with a stable outlook.
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- October 23 2025
London P&I Club opens representative office in Shanghai
The new office in Mainland China is led by Wenjia Gao and reflects the club's long term commitment to Asia, according to chairman John Lyras.
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- October 20 2025
Markel Greater China targets double-digit growth, doubles down on marine, AI risks
Buoyed by 220% growth in 2024, the specialty carrier targets top spot on the Lloyd's China platform by year-end, says Chelsea Jiang, Greater China MD.
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- October 15 2025
China’s plan to tighten commission controls for non-motor market to improve pricing: Fitch
New measures, which will take effect on November 1, aim to shift competition away from commission-driven sales toward profitability and risk-based pricing discipline.
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- October 14 2025
China’s retaliatory port fees on US-linked vessels adds to maritime disruptions
A US$56 per net ton fee will be charged at Chinese ports from vessels that US flagged, built or are owned or operated by US enterprises, meanwhile, the country has also banned Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean's US subsidiaries in escalating tensions.
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- October 13 2025
China Re-backed broker Huatai partners with BMS Group for marine initiative
The mainland intermediary will coordinate domestic underwriting, while BMS’ specialist arms BankServe and CLP will do international ceding of risks.
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- October 10 2025
Vietnam’s 2025 nat cat economic losses top US$1.3bn
Typhoon Matmo over the weekend expected to add hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to the region recovering from the Typhoon Bualoi the week before.
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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 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.
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- September 26 2025
Addressing protection gap requires collaborative effort, says HKIA’s Stephen Yiu
Unleashing social values of insurance to narrow the protection gap and deepening financial inclusion is essential for stable market growth, he said addressing an HKCIB conference.
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- September 23 2025
Super Typhoon Ragasa: Hong Kong insurance industry braces for world’s strongest storm in 2025
Tens of millions of people could be impacted as the storm passes south of the major centres of Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
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- September 23 2025
Taiping Re to benefit from profitable non-life vertical, new capital sources: AM Best
AM Best affirms its A (excellent) rating for the reinsurer and its wholly owned subsidiary, Taiping Reinsurance (China), with a stable outlook.
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- September 22 2025
China’s P&C underwriting profit tops US$3.7bn, ceded premium surpasses US$14bn in H1 FY25
For the first time, more than half of the insurers reported profitable underwriting, according China Re P&C.
