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- February 28 2026
Full Capacity: Gift City gold rush
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN exclusive, Gallagher Re's leadership change, Partner Re's Gift City entry, Hong Kong's ILS scheme, Steadfast's passing of the baton and the rush of entries into Gift City.
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- February 21 2026
Full Capacity: APAC insurance M&A gains momentum
This week's newsletter discusses Swiss Re's acquisition of QBE's trade credit and surety arm, Sompo's clearance to acquire Aspen, two M&A deals, HDI's Southeast Asia focus, ARPC's terrorism retrocession program and APAC’s M&A growth.
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- February 14 2026
Full Capacity: AI‑led insurtech: revival or recalibration?
This week's newsletter discusses a Lloyd's leadership update, M&A updates, Vietnam's odd rate increase, Marsh's insurance rates, Willis’ crisis management annual review and insurtech's AI-led future.
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- February 7 2026
Full Capacity: ElementaRe: Approaches to solving the protection gap
This week's newsletter discusses an Aviso's Lockton raid, a new MGA in Australia, a Zurich-Beazley update, Marsh's insurance rates, Asia's facultative cover and Australia's approach to a broken insurance market.
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- January 31 2026
Full Capacity: Reinsurers rev up with casualty sidecars
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN Exclusive, AUB's M&A deal, an Australian nat-cat update, VIG Re's expansion, space debris and the casualty sidecars.
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- January 24 2026
Full Capacity: Is Zurich’s pursuit of Beazley a tipping point for specialty consolidation?
This week's newsletter discusses two IAN Exclusives, Vietnam's AlphaRe, data centres and the Zurich-Beazley deal.
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- January 17 2026
Full Capacity: 2026 is starting to heat up
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN Exclusive, an M&A update, Suncorp's nat cat allowance, South Korean regulatory tightening, geopolitical spillovers and Australia's bushfire.
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- December 20 2025
Full Capacity: The year that was
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN exclusive, Chubb's leadership switch, India's FDI increase for insurers, Vietnam's regulatory changes, Swiss Re Institute's nat cat analysis, the launch of a new APAC MGA and a 2025 round-up.
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- December 13 2025
Full Capacity: Climate crisis strikes at Southeast Asia’s doorstep
This week's newsletter discusses Guy Carpenter's lawsuit, this week's M&A deals, China Re's leadership change, Japan's nat-cat update, P&I renewals the South Asia floods.
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- December 6 2025
Full Capacity: Reckoning after Tai Po tragedy
This week's newsletter discusses broker deals in Australia, DB's Fortegra acquisition, storms in Southeast Asia and the leadership change at Allianz Re.
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- November 29 2025
Full Capacity: Rise of the machines: AI transition and job losses
This week's newsletter discusses the HK fire, nat cat updates, Munich Re's Australia push, Korean Re's Gift City entry, Roojai's PE funding, a P&I merger, and the AI dilemma for the insurance market.
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- November 22 2025
Full Capacity: Survival of the fittest – Asia’s regulatory shake-up
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN exclusive, HK's new marine pool, South Korea's E-Land Fire, Lloyd's and Steadfast's internal affairs, Marsh Asia president's move, Chubb's listing in Malaysia, and the regulatory burdens on the region's insurance market.
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- November 15 2025
Full Capacity: Plugging into the data centre gold rush
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN exclusive, a nat cat brief, the latest M&A deals in the region, 1B-i's APAC expansion, Aon's rate reduction, and the growth of the data centre insurance.
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- November 8 2025
Full Capacity: Are we on a slow road to ‘stupid reinsurance’?
This week's newsletter discusses Huntington Underwriting's new acquisition, Gallagher Re's new cyber reinsurance facility, the latest M&A deals in the region, Typhoon Kalmaegi and a SIRC wrap-up.
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- November 1 2025
Full Capacity: Industry slings into Singapore as home stretch begins at SIRC
This week's newsletter discusses AUB's new investors, Hurricane Melissa's payout, AIG's acquisition of Everest's commercial retail portfolio rights, marine (re)insurers role in the stranded jets in Russia, Rokstone's interest in the Asian market.
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- October 25 2025
Full Capacity: Does private equity’s big bets signal new era for Asian (re)insurance?
This week's newsletter discusses Peak Re's new investors, BHSI's entry into Japan, Markel's Mainland Chinese plans, Howden's ambitions in Asia, and three private equity firms making commitments to the Asian (re)insurance sector.
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- October 18 2025
Full Capacity: Of tit-for-tats – new calculus of global trade
This week's newsletter discusses Marsh's rebranding, Howden's M&A, a new Mainland Chinese marine venture, IAN's cyber conference, and the tug-of-war in the shipping industry.
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- October 11 2025
Full Capacity: Asia’s vulnerability demands urgent roadmap for resilience
This week's newsletter discusses GIC Re's leadership change, ARPC's losses, APAC nat cat brief, Japan's offshore wind plans, and a reminder of Asia's nat cat vulnerability.
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- October 4 2025
Full Capacity: Bridging the innovation gap
This week's newsletter discusses typhoon Bualoi's impact, Lloyd's leadership, MS&AD's brand refreshing, Mapfre Re's expansion plans, and the growth of the renewable energy insurance market.
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- September 27 2025
Full Capacity: Herding cats – taming the cyber chaos
This week's newsletter discusses typhoon Ragasa's impact, DB Insurance's acquisition of Fortegra, Everest Re entering India's GIFT Ci, underwriters cautioning against proliferation of auto buying and smart follow facilities, and a reminder of the perils of cyber.
