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- August 20 2025
APAC upstream market continues to navigate difficult conditions as double-digit rate reductions energise buyers
Increased underwriting capacity, limited catastrophic loss activity, and heightened competition among insurers suggest there is sustained downward pressure of 5-12.5% on premium rates.
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- August 19 2025
Asia’s revitalised art market attracts new capacity as demand for tailored cover grows
Fion Ko, associate director of fine art and specie for Asia at Willis, tells InsuranceAsia News' Between The Lines podcast that an increasing demand for digital art is posing challenges as the market finds ways to cover the emerging risks.
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- August 18 2025
Rising risks redefine marine insurer-clients relationships: IUMI’s Lars Lange
As the industry body prepares to host their annual conference in Singapore, sanctions and geopolitical risks continue to dominate concerns for carriers.
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- August 15 2025
Insurer warns of jumbo problems amid bulk cargo concerns at Asian ports
Ian Barr, chief claims officer at The London P&I Club, addresses the issue of flexible intermediate bulk containers, with particular problems noted in loading at some Chinese ports.
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- August 13 2025
US-Japan nat cat double whammy warning sends ripples through the market
Scientific studies suggest global cyclones could be more closely linked than previously thought.
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- August 12 2025
With a US$3bn market on the horizon, a hydrogen-powered future creates ‘far-reaching’ implications for insurers
Product lines such as energy, natural resources, and liability are likely to see the biggest impact from hydrogen risks over the next five to 10 years, followed by property and marine, industry insiders tell InsuranceAsia News.
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- August 11 2025
Australia’s new ‘hard line’ M&A rules snag small, mid-cap insurers amid overreach warning
Insurers and brokers face higher merger costs and greater execution risks as a result of the Australian government's new mandatory merger notification rules, competition lawyers say.
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- August 6 2025
Red Sea ‘hot topic’ creates opportunities for insurers, with capacity not a major problem despite Houthi escalation
Hannah Chua, legal director in Clyde & Co’s energy, marine, and natural resources team in Singapore, says the market has learned lessons from the past.
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- August 5 2025
Beijing flood losses to be ‘substantial’ as region braces for more rain
Insurers have received 65,000 reports of losses following last month's extreme rain, with an estimated insured loss of US$277m, according to regulatory data.
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- July 31 2025
‘It’s a trust game’: with cyber claims spikes front and centre, alternative solutions offer cover for growing threat
Comments follow placement of innovative ‘surge’ reinsurance with Arch Capital Group.
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- July 30 2025
Rising losses in benign cat year point to ‘background noise’ of climate change: Munich Re’s Tobias Grimm
APAC events highlight unpredictability of catastrophes, resulting in unprecedented amounts of rainfall, storms, wildfires and earthquakes in areas that have never experienced them, says the reinsurer's top climate expert.
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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.
