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- July 28 2025
Opportunity knocks for Australia as regulator keeps (re)insurance market waiting over proposed major reforms
Relaxation of requirements by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority are set to provide a considerable boost to the alternative risk transfer sector.
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- July 24 2025
Asia’s asset-intensive reinsurance outlook remains ‘bullish’: Gallagher Re’s Jeffrey Seow
Head of life and health in the region tells InsuranceAsia News that capital markets volatility will drive deal flow.
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- July 23 2025
Inflation, nat cats weigh on APAC construction, sparking underinsurance as regional infrastructure opportunities build
Insurers are enhancing risk modelling capabilities to keep pace with the rising frequency, while innovating on products to serve the evolving market.
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- July 21 2025
Australian cyclone season highlights changing landscape, challenges ahead
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which caused US$843m in insured losses, was the most high-profile event of the 2024-25 cyclone season that recorded 12 windstorms.
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- July 17 2025
Asian clients, suppliers facing choppy waters with cargo market braced to navigate intensifying geopolitical risks
Markel's Brook Styles and Wanshi Lin discuss the impact of the conflicts in the Middle East, plus the Russia–Ukraine war and the US tariff regime.
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- July 16 2025
Tokyo flooding to bring minimal losses, but highlights growing need to adjust underwriting strategies, flood models
While the event may not significantly impact (re)insurance pricing, loss adjusters told InsuranceAsia News that insurers need to respond to increasing attritional nat cat losses.
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- July 11 2025
Turbulence ahead for aviation market amid renewed warning over ‘downbursts’
Australian airlines face increasing danger as weather risks multiply across the east coast.
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- July 10 2025
‘Valuable partners for insurers’: APAC’s thriving MGA market set for significant growth, Guy Carpenter’s Steve Warwick says
China, Japan and South Korea have longer-term potential alongside existing key regions as insurers increasingly show interest in this booming route to market.
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- July 9 2025
Reinsurance market grapples with geopolitical risks amid renewals shift
There is an acceleration in reinsurance rate reductions across the globe, but the question it raises is whether the softening will cool off, according to panellists at the reinsurance webinar co-hosted by IAN and Fitch Ratings last week.
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- July 8 2025
Financial lines rate reduction should bottom out as potential large losses loom: Frontier Global’s Joel Pridmore
Sector faces significant challenges, including major litigation such as class actions, regulatory scrutiny of Australian superannuation funds, cyber events, greenwashing, and the risk of under-reserving.
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- July 4 2025
Qantas cyber breach to create turbulence for insureds and insurers, but losses could fly under the radar
AIG-led cyber program placed by Marsh is unlikely to be significantly hit, industry sources told InsuranceAsia News.
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- July 3 2025
Regional risk concerns for ‘fourth utility’ as data centres seek answers to perils threat
Threat of cyber attack or system failure has been a focus for risk management systems, but physical risks, such as natural disasters, power failures and physical security risks, are often less understood.
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- July 2 2025
‘Reinsurers have been quite clear that they’re still looking to grow’: Gallagher Re’s Heather Bone
At the July 1 renewals, while supply was abundant, demand is falling given increasing consolidation in Australia’s insurance industry.
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- July 1 2025
Nuclear fusion is the next frontier for insurers, but collaboration essential amid sustainable energy push
China, alongside the UK, US, and Germany, are the leading nations in the global drive to create fusion power.
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- June 30 2025
APAC’s block life reinsurance market to thrive amid regulatory changes and capital optimisation, but oversight looms
Japan has been home to some of the larger deals, but demand is also seen in the likes of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
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- June 26 2025
Insuring prosperity: APAC’s dynamic fine art and specie market in the frame as risk landscape, extreme weather drive demand
As China's influence wanes, markets like Japan, South Korea, and Singapore are gaining traction, with family offices and new private museums in nearby regions driving demand for coverage and competition.
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- June 24 2025
In unique Asia, underwriters look to stay dialed amid ‘unprecedented wave’ of cyber attacks
A surge in cyberattacks is likely behind a 14% rise in large cyber claims in Asia during the first half of last year, with a new report shining a light on attacks on the financial services sector.
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- June 19 2025
Strait of Hormuz tanker collision highlights dark fleet dangers, but not seen as war event
Adalynn and Front Eagle collided on Tuesday in the Strait of Hormuz amid the ongoing tensions between Iran and Israel.
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- June 18 2025
‘Surely, prices will go up’: Air India crash to push hull and liability rates, could impact product liability
Brokers and a lawyer tell InsuranceAsia News that last week's fatal crash in Ahmedabad will have a wide-ranging impact on the aviation industry, with total losses set to be as much as US$475m.
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- June 17 2025
‘Quite orderly’ 1.7 ANZ renewals seeing double-digit rate cuts amid plentiful capacity
Reinsurers, though, have little appetite to reduce first loss retention levels, sources told InsuranceAsia News.
