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- August 22 2024
Climate change exposes banks to ‘silent’ risks as insurance gets more unaffordable: Aon
Banks can leverage on tools and datasets that insurers have been using for pricing climate risks. Alternative risk transfer tool such as parametrics can also provide additional protection, the broker said.
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- August 22 2024
Vietnam non-life carriers’ H1 2024 revenue grows 12% to US$1.6bn
The country’s biggest non-life insurer PVI grew its revenue 65.7% YoY in the first six months of the year, according to the most recent data published by the Insurance Association of Vietnam.
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- August 22 2024
Epsilon Underwriting secures capacity to renew property ISR policies written by Argenta Australia
The move follows Argenta Group's announcement that it will close its Sydney office in July after a review of its underwriting activities.
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- August 22 2024
Crawford Malaysia names Kuppusamy as personal accident, fraud investigation team head
Murugan Kuppusamy brings 15 years of experience across personal accident, bodily injury, investigations, fraud detection, theft and motor claims to the team.
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- August 22 2024
Axa XL appoints Daniel Su as marine cargo underwriter in Hong Kong
Su has over 20 years of (re)insurance underwriting and broking experience focusing on the north Asia marine markets.
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- August 22 2024
Swiss Re expands public sector leader Lubomir Varbanov’s role to include development institutions
Varbanov's new title will be managing director, head of public sector solutions for APAC and multilateral development banks.
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- August 22 2024
Central Bank of India wins bid for minority stake in Generali’s Indian JVs
The state-owned lender will acquire the stakes held by the insolvent Future Enterprises in the life and P&C businesses majority owned by the Italian insurance giant for a reported US$60.5m.
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- August 22 2024
Mega Insurance COR up 10 points to 97% as credit, motor claims climb
Fitch Ratings has affirmed an insurer rating of 'A+ for the company with a stable outlook as its GWP rose 75% in 2023.
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- August 21 2024
NFRA seeks to improve nat cat response through new insurance assessment system
The assessment system is intended to improve the country’s response mechanism based on different grading of natural catastrophes, according to the P&C insurance supervision chief.
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- August 21 2024
Leadenhall and Bennelong launch cat bond fund for Australia and New Zealand
The two firms had in October last year joined hands to distribute ILS strategies to institutional investors in the region.
