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- June 24 2025
Hong Kong’s Nova announces senior leadership changes as MD Patrick Chan retires
Rebecca Au will take over as managing director, while Conrad Wong and Joseph Lee have been named chief commercial officers.
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- June 24 2025
Sompo names Alasdair Walker Hong Kong CEO as Li Sheung Kin set to retire
Walker will be responsible for driving Hong Kong’s profitability and capabilities as a key commercial business hub in Asia Pacific, reporting into regional insurance CEO Kenneth Reilly.
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- June 24 2025
Korean insurers to face capitalisation pressure due to falling interest rates, tighter norms: Fitch Ratings
Ongoing volatility in investment returns amid financial market uncertainty could challenge the overall stability of insurers’ profitability, according to the global rating agency.
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- June 20 2025
Aggregated losses from typhoon Wutip could reach hundreds of millions of US dollars: Aon
Particularly significant economic and insured losses are expected due to widespread flooding in southern China.
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- June 20 2025
AIG taps Liberty Specialty Markets’ Snowy Chan as marine lead in Hong Kong, Macau
Chan joins having spent almost 16 and a half years with Liberty.
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- June 20 2025
FWD Group could launch Hong Kong IPO as early as this month
Reuters report follows news that FWD Group has passed its listing hearing in Hong Kong, implying that it could commence its IPO process shortly.
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- June 18 2025
South Korean insurers’ K-ICS ratio falls below 200% for the first time, standing at 197.9%
The ratio for non-life insurers decreased by 3.4 percentage points to 207.6% at the end of March compared to 3 months earlier, while that of life insurance companies fell 12.7 percentage points to 190.7%.
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- June 17 2025
Exclusive: Zurich names Koji Okumura as senior property underwriter in Japan
Okumura earlier worked at Munich Re as an underwriter for almost 10 years, travelling between Japan and Hong Kong.
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- June 16 2025
Exclusive: Marsh Japan hires WTW veteran Hirofumi ‘Luke’ Nakamura amid exodus, talent battle
Tokyo-based Nakamura joins Marsh as a senior vice president along with several other former WTW colleagues.
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- June 16 2025
Taiwan’s non-life insurance premiums surge 10.5% in 2024, driven by motor: AM Best
Non-life insurer’s total DWP rose 10.9% to NT$271bn, while net claims fell 13.8% to NT$100.6bn.
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- June 16 2025
Marsh Japan appoints Shohei Iida as vice president for private equity, M&A services
Tokyo-based Iida was previoulsy a financial lines underwriter at Allianz Commercial and AIG.
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- June 11 2025
South Korea slashes recommended CAR for insurers to 130%: report
Financial Services Commission will remove requirements related to net loss and insurance operating loss from the conditions for reversing emergency risk reserves.
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- June 11 2025
Samsung Fire & Marine to buy additional 21% stake in Canopius
Transaction will increase the Korean insurer's total share to 40%.
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- June 10 2025
Exclusive: Markel appoints Axa’s Chelsea Jiang as greater China CEO
Jiang was most recently the chief technical and innovation officer for general insurance in greater China at Axa Hong Kong and Macau.
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- June 9 2025
Former CCB manager faces bribery charge in Hong Kong over US$470,000 from Vesttoo employee
The new charge by the Independent Commission Against Corruption alleges that the relationship manager at China Construction Bank accepted cryptocurrency Tether from the insurtech employee, a middleman, and others in exchange for authenticating false letters of credit and collateral letters.
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- June 9 2025
Japan’s Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance domestic operations performance to remain stable: AM Best
The rating agency has affirmed financial strength rating of A+ (Superior) and long-term issuer credit rating of “aa” (Superior) to MSI.
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- June 9 2025
Manulife unit to re-domicile to Hong Kong from Bermuda in November
Second insurer after Axa to shift its base under Hong Kong's new company re-domiciliation regime.
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- June 9 2025
Miller expands in Korea as Marsh’s Justin Roh takes on senior vice president role
Seoul-based Roh brings over two decades of marine insurance and legal expertise to support Miller’s Asia expansion strategy.
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- June 6 2025
Tokio Marine at ‘tipping point’ as it prepares to turn the page on its ambitious transformation plan
CEO Satoru Komiya says the group is eyeing growth from its domestic P&C business via a Japanese-style specialty insurance with low and stable CORs, mainly in the SME market.
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- June 5 2025
RGA concludes block reinsurance policies for Tokio Marine’s life arm
Reinsurance of whole life policies with Anshin Life follows a US$700m reinsurance block transaction completed in 2024.