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- October 30 2025
Exclusive: Lockton Australia’s Patrick Moore leaves for Aviso
Sydney-based Moore was most recently general manager for growth and client strategy at Lockton.
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- October 24 2025
Exclusive: Blackstone acquires majority stake in India’s Ace Insurance Brokers
The deal, which values the broker at US$350-400m, has received regulatory approval from the IRDAI, according to sources
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- October 22 2025
Exclusive: BHSI faces claim after Hong Kong’s Chinachem Tower fire
Willis is understood to be the broker, while Charles Taylor is the loss adjuster.
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- October 1 2025
Typhoon Bualoi: damage to Vietnamese thermal power plant may trigger reinsurance claims
Starr is the lead reinsurer for the PVI-led insurance program of the supercritical project in the northern Ha Tinh province, InsuranceAsia News understands.
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- September 29 2025
Mapfre Re targets billion-euro Asian GWP milestone: Javier Sánchez Cea
Spanish reinsurer places Asia Pacific at the heart of its growth strategy, with life reinsurance in China and India as key drivers, alongside casualty, says chief regional officer.
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- September 5 2025
Exclusive: Howden snaps up 40-year Marsh veteran Rebecca Poon
Hong Kong-based Poon, who was managing director at Marsh, has been appointed chief client officer.
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- August 28 2025
‘We don’t need to wait’: Taiping Re eyes wider ILS program after debut cat bond
Hong Kong reinsurer considers other ILS products, such as sidecars, which meet its business and retro strategies, ILS specialists Jeffrey Li and Aaron Lin tell InsuranceAsia News.
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- August 25 2025
Amid breakout year, Willis supercharges Japan team as broker eyes a bigger piece of the pie
Head of Japan Roy Nakazawa tells InsuranceNews Asia about hiring 22 professionals this year across risk and analytics, facultative reinsurance, marine lines as well as business development, large accounts and claims functions.
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- July 2 2025
QBE Asia amps up wholesale team with 2 senior leadership appointments
Wholesale insurer has named Hong Kong-based Cynthia Huang head of Taiwan and Greater China desk (facultative reinsurance) and Singapore-based Young Jun Lee as head of wholesale Asia, construction and engineering.
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- June 24 2025
Hong Kong’s Nova announces senior leadership changes as MD Patrick Chan retires
Rebecca Au will take over as managing director, while Conrad Wong and Joseph Lee have been named chief commercial officers.
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- June 23 2025
Samsung Re takes Gallagher Re’s Sie Liang Lau as head of cyber and casualty
Singapore-based Lau will lead build out of the reinsurer's portfolios across APAC and MENA, while supporting Samsung Fire & Marine's global cyber insurance ambitions.
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- June 17 2025
Exclusive: Zurich names Koji Okumura as senior property underwriter in Japan
Okumura earlier worked at Munich Re as an underwriter for almost 10 years, travelling between Japan and Hong Kong.
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- June 16 2025
Exclusive: Marsh Japan hires WTW veteran Hirofumi ‘Luke’ Nakamura amid exodus, talent battle
Tokyo-based Nakamura joins Marsh as a senior vice president along with several other former WTW colleagues.
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- June 10 2025
Exclusive: RiskPoint hires AIG’s George Blackborow as head of W&I in Asia
Blackborow will join the transactional risk team in Singapore to strengthen MGA's regional offering, APAC MD Maria Steeples exclusively confirmed to IAN.
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- June 10 2025
Exclusive: Markel appoints Axa’s Chelsea Jiang as greater China CEO
Jiang was most recently the chief technical and innovation officer for general insurance in greater China at Axa Hong Kong and Macau.
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- May 29 2025
Exclusive: Swiss Re CorSo reshuffles APAC leadership as China CEO, Southeast Asia head depart
China CEO Jeffrey Pan will depart by the end of the year, while Singapore-based Didier Bélot will leave the company by the end of August.
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- May 27 2025
Miller’s Japanese arm names Tokio Marine veteran Naoteru Akigami as CEO
Tokyo-based Akigami took over as head of Lead Insurance Services last month, succeeding Toru Suzuki, who now serves as executive chairman.
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- April 30 2025
Howden confirms Mandira Gupta as MD and M&A head
Gupta, who joins from rival Marsh, will lead the broker's private equity and transactional risk insurance solutions as first reported by IAN.
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- April 30 2025
Exclusive: BMS to shut down South Korea, Japan offices
Market sources tell IAN that most of the staff working in both offices of the M&A specialist broker will be let go.
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- April 22 2025
Exclusive: Swiss Re Corporate Solutions to shut Hong Kong office, surrender licence
Commercial insurer will consolidate operations servicing Chinese corporations into its mainland offices, IAN can reveal.
