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- December 1 2025
Marsh veteran Rebecca Poon takes up Howden role in Hong Kong
InsuranceAsia News first reported in September she was leaving Marsh Hong Kong after 42 years.
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- December 1 2025
Opinion: Mutually beneficial to address Hong Kong’s marine war insurance needs
Hong Kong Marine War Risks Insurance Pool will focus on providing marine war risk insurance, covering vessel loss or damage caused by acts of war, piracy, terrorist attacks, and related geopolitical incidents.
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- November 28 2025
Wang Fuk Court: China Taiping confirms it provided coverage for all major insurance policies as death toll passes 120
Hong Kong insurer says it underwrote the construction works insurance, construction employee compensation insurance, owners' corporation third-party liability insurance, property insurance, and public liability insurance for the public housing estate, as first reported by IAN.
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- November 28 2025
Exclusive: Hong Kong housing estate fire property claim could top US$200m, with China Taiping the sole insurer
Hong Kong firm provides the master property insurance for the Wang Fuk Court housing estate, as well as contractors’ all-risk policy, including third-party liability, and employee compensation cover.
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- November 24 2025
Sompo Hong Kong appoints Alan Lang as head of operations
He was most recently group program and operations lead at bolttech.
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- November 20 2025
Hong Kong launches marine war risk insurance pool
Initiative, announced by chief executive John Lee earlier this year, is managed by Alliance Risk Transfer and its founding members include China Taiping, PICC, CMB Wing Lung, CPIC and Asia Insurance.
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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
Allianz Commercial, Coastal Marine team up for APAC marine hull coverage
Partnership will initially focus on Coastal Marine's core offering of hull and machinery for coastal and inland tonnage in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Hong Kong.
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- November 18 2025
China P&I Club launches local Hong Kong mutual
Hong Kong P&I Club will strengthen the territory's position as a 'leading hub for marine insurance.'
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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
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.
