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- April 30 2024
Australian MGA Market Lane expands New Zealand team with BHSI hire
Auckland-based Luke Scott joins as regional development manager for the MGA's specialty commercial insurance underwriter The Barn New Zealand and will help deliver broker partner solutions.
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- April 30 2024
Dual launches title insurance for real estate, M&A deals in select APAC markets
The MGA's new offering will focus on commercial property deals in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and M&A transactions will also extend to Japan and South Korea.
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- April 30 2024
Exclusive: Mark Johnson set to take charge as Starr Hong Kong CEO
The former Howden Hong Kong chief executive will start at the insurer from early May, IAN understands.
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- April 30 2024
QBE elevates Nicola Schroder to group head of sustainability
Melbourne-based Schroder will be responsible for sustainability governance, strategy implementation, human rights, and modern slavery initiatives, and driving social impact through the QBE Foundation.
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- April 30 2024
Insurers’ switch to risk-based pricing makes insurance unaffordable: RBNZ
Climate change and rising reinsurance costs are prompting more insurers to switch to a risk-based pricing approach, but the Reserve Bank of New Zealand warns that this is also making property insurance unaffordable and leave customer underinsured.
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- April 29 2024
Chris Kempton joins Marsh Australia as managing principal for Northern Territory
Darwin-based Kempton brings expertise in broking both conventional programs and discretionary trusts, workers compensation claims management and loss adjusting.
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- April 29 2024
Indonesian broker Axle Asia rebrands as bolttech
The rebrand and renaming are expected to boost bolttech's solutions in the largest economy in South-East Asia.
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- April 29 2024
Taiwan’s non-life sector 2023 premium income up 10%, returns to profitability
Net income for the island's non-life sector was NT$480m, a turnaround from a net loss last year, when it was hit by Covid-19 losses.
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- April 29 2024
HKIA extends transitional period for RBC reporting to 3 years
The regulator has extended the transitional period by a year following industry's feedback for more time to get familiar with the new reporting requirements under the risk-based capital regime.
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- April 26 2024
BRI Insurance’s underwriting profitability supports ‘stable’ outlook: Fitch
The rating agency assigned the Indonesian carrier a national insurer financial strength rating of AA to BRI Insurance on low claim ratio and 55% COR in 2023.
