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- October 20 2025
Australia prepares for ‘hotter-than-normal summer’: BOM
The Bureau of Meteorology also warned of increased risk of bushfires and increasing risk of powerful storms.
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- October 16 2025
New Zealand adaptation framework will develop national flood map, strengthen climate change legislation
ICNZ has welcomed the framework as an important and necessary first step towards building the country's climate resilience and keeping insurance accessible.
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- October 16 2025
Australia’s cyclone pool delivers 37% premium cut in highest-risk areas: ARPC
Premiums and quote success rates improve across cyclone-prone regions, with SME policies seeing further reductions.
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- October 10 2025
Vietnam’s 2025 nat cat economic losses top US$1.3bn
Typhoon Matmo over the weekend expected to add hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to the region recovering from the Typhoon Bualoi the week before.
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- October 9 2025
‘Lifeblood of global trade’ under pressure amid rising tide of climate threat
With Asia home to nine of the 10 busiest container ports in the world, a new report has found that 90% of the world’s 3,700 major ports are exposed to damaging climate hazards.
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- October 1 2025
Geopolitical risks on the rise; cyber, AI and climate dominate future risks: Aon survey
Cyber risk remains top concern; AI and climate emerge as major future threats while workforce issues slip down rankings.
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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 26 2025
Super Typhoon Ragasa’s impact less than feared in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau
Despite widespread reports of property losses, claims from the strongest storm of the year are expected to be much smaller than that from Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018, loss adjusters tell IAN.
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- September 26 2025
Addressing protection gap requires collaborative effort, says HKIA’s Stephen Yiu
Unleashing social values of insurance to narrow the protection gap and deepening financial inclusion is essential for stable market growth, he said addressing an HKCIB conference.
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- September 23 2025
Super Typhoon Ragasa: Hong Kong insurance industry braces for world’s strongest storm in 2025
Tens of millions of people could be impacted as the storm passes south of the major centres of Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
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- September 22 2025
Super Typhoon Ragasa: Hong Kong facing US$100m bill: report
Region is battening down for the typhoon, which is expected to bring hurricane-force winds of up to 220km/h and is projected to make landfall in southeast China on Wednesday.
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- September 19 2025
Losses from India, Pakistan flooding likely to reach ‘billions of US$’: Aon
Punjab plains region of both countries is experiencing some of its worst flooding disasters in recent history, caused by anomalously high monsoon rainfall across northwest India and northern Pakistan.
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- September 15 2025
Climate change puts 1.5m Australians at dire risk, warns first climate risk assessment
Australians living in high-risk communities face increasing costs as a result of rising insurance premiums, with widening protection gaps as many areas become uninsurable, according to a governement report.
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- September 15 2025
Carbon credit specialist Oka launches in Singapore
Carrier, through its Lloyd's Syndicate 1922, will offer climate-focused insurance products to Singaporean corporations and financial institutions.
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- September 9 2025
World Bank to back 5-year climate shield for Philippines agriculture
US$70 million initiative will create a co-insurance pool that offer protection from escalating climate-related risks.
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- September 5 2025
Australian carriers’ US$1.6bn reinsurance spend saves US$46bn in capital: Actuaries Institute
A paper published by the institute noted Australian insurers have fewer choices when it comes to the range of reinsurance products they can use to gain regulatory credit.
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- September 3 2025
Tokio Marine launches green transition underwriting platform
Tokio Marine GX is a fully operational underwriting business offering up to US$500m of capacity on any single risk.
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- August 27 2025
Hanoi flooding from Typhoon Kajiki expected to result in limited commercial claims
While the windstorm has caused significant damage, it did not hit the industrial areas, unlike Typhoon Yagi last year.
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- August 21 2025
APRA targets promoting cost-effective reinsurance to general insurers
Australian regulator's 2025-26 corporate plan says it will release details on its proposals in the first half of FY26, and in the latter half, it will report the results of its climate vulnerability assessment for the general insurance sector.
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- August 19 2025
Asian Development Bank, UN collaborate to launch climate insurance solutions for Fijian small businesses
Initiative is supported by US$950,000 in technical assistance from the Asia-Pacific Climate Finance Fund.
