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- November 14 2025
Starr appoints Zurich veteran Celia Wong to lead the financial lines practice in Hong Kong
She joins after spending over 14 years at Zurich, where she last held the position of underwriting practice lead for financial lines since April 2022.
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- November 12 2025
Bale Gao joins Lockton as vice president for marine, specialty, and reinsurance
Hong Kong-based Gao joins from WTW, having spent just over three years as a marine manager.
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- November 11 2025
Sompo eyes bigger piece of the pie, with Hong Kong’s ‘vibrant’ IPO boom creating opportunities for D&O insurance
Insurer wants to continue to scale up its APAC financial lines business in 2026, Emily Poh, head of financial lines for APAC, tells InsuranceAsia News.
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- November 6 2025
Exclusive: Nexus’ Hong Kong, Labuan underwriting business acquired by Huntington
Nexus will continue to write accident and health business from the region, while the property and marine risks will be written from Dubai.
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- October 31 2025
Peak Re hires Korean Re veteran Eun Jeong Lee as senior retrocession vice president
Lee relocates from Singapore to Hong Kong after spending over two years as deputy branch manager for Korean Re.
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- October 31 2025
Hong Kong’s Cyberport aids Otonomi’s US$5m Series A funding round
Oversubscribed round for the New York City-headquartered blockchain-enabled parametric insurance platform was also led Hivemind Capital, Rothschild & Co Asset Management, ATX Venture Partners, and Portline Capital.
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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 27 2025
Hong Kong insurers’ H1 GWP at US$7.5bn, underwriting profit at US$180m: HKIA
The industry reported gross claims of US$3.3bn, while overall operating profit stood at US$840m, the regulator said.
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- October 22 2025
Peak Re’s ratings unaffected by ownership changes: AM Best
US insurer Prudential Financial has divested its stake in Peak Re to KKR and Quadrantis Capital.
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- October 22 2025
Exclusive: BHSI faces claim after Hong Kong’s Chinachem Tower fire
Willis is understood to be the broker, while Charles Taylor is the loss adjuster.
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- October 21 2025
KKR, Quandratis Capital pick up minority stake in Peak Re
The two private equity funds bought out Prudential Financial's 13% indirect shareholding in the Hong Kong reinsurer.
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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 17 2025
Dah Sing Insurance eyes medium-term growth through new initiatives: AM Best
The rating agency has upgraded the DSI’s outlook to positive from stable and affirmed its financial strength rating of A- (excellent) and long-term issuer credit rating of “a-” (excellent).
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- October 3 2025
+8 Partners-owned Arete Adjusting expands to APAC with Hong Kong office
Cargo, liability, and logistics industry claims adjuster will be led in the region by Yuxing Ao.
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- October 3 2025
HMG taps Gen Re’s Orchis Li as CEO
She spent over a decade as general manager of Gen Re's Hong Kong branch.
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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
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 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 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.
