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- March 22 2022
Bridging Asia’s environmental liability insurance gap
Tightening regulations and heightened awareness are driving demand in a complex risk environment.
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- March 8 2022
Political risk market hardens in Asia amid Ukraine invasion
Russian invasion adds to stresses that were already building amid rising inflation.
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- March 3 2022
Ukraine invasion heightens marine risk in Asia
Evolving sanctions and snap decisions by global giants mean (re)insurers are assessing their risks hourly.
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- March 3 2022
China will not impose sanctions on Russia: CBIRC
Head of the regulator Guo Shuqing believes such measures to be illegal and ineffective.
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- March 2 2022
Ukraine crisis may force further hardening of Aussie cyber
Heightened threat constrains underwriting appetite.
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- February 21 2022
Vietnam joins South-East Asia disaster facility
Seadrif membership helps with the likes of risk modelling and risk management.
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- January 14 2022
Climate crisis dominates Asia’s risk outlook
Nat cats caused US$50bn of losses in APAC in 2021, as WEF says top five risks are linked to climate change.
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- January 6 2022
Q&A: Peak Re’s Clarence Wong on claims’ inflation and cyber risk
The chief economist says the insurability of new risks such as cryptocurrencies will improve.
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- January 4 2022
Allianz’s Anusha Thavarajah on growth and risks in Asia
The insurer has aggressive targets for the entire region, says APAC CEO.
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- December 8 2021
AIF 2021: Hong Kong is China’s dual circulation ‘gateway’
Executives from AIA, HSBC and Axa weighed in on the city's role as a risk management hub.
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- December 2 2021
Cyclone claims to rise unless house designs improve: ICA
New report says construction methods need updating amid an evolving climate change threat.
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- December 1 2021
Australia ups state flood mitigation funding by US$35m
Applications opened this week to access money from the country's National Flood Mitigation Infrastructure Program.
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- November 26 2021
APRA to look for ‘evidence’ on risk management controls
APRA deputy chair Helen Rowell wants boards and senior management to avoid "mistakes of the past".
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- November 17 2021
US$22bn needed to protect coastal communities: ICA
The figure accounts for around 1.2% of all annual infrastructure spending by local, state and federal governments.
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- November 17 2021
SIRC 2021: Pandemic BI cover needs ‘government support’
Experts say (re)insurers do not have the balance sheets to sustain the magnitude of Covid-19 losses.
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- November 15 2021
SIRC 2021: Lloyd’s chair calls for action on sustainability
Bruce Carnegie-Brown says measured but urgent action will help mitigate the region's multiplying risks.
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- November 15 2021
Munich Re’s Park on climate risks, underwriting and transformation
James Park, the reinsurer's chief executive for Singapore and South-East Asia, warns on unmodelled risks.
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- November 10 2021
Asian reinsurers face volatile future
Risk appetite is on the rise, but so are the challenges to stable earnings.
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- November 9 2021
Tower appoints QBE exec as chief claims officer
Steve Wilson is leaving the Australian firm after over five years and joining the New Zealand insurer in January.
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- October 21 2021
Asia’s cyber market needs to learn its limitations
Systemic attacks on critical infrastructure have been described as "beyond the industry's capacity to insure".
