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- November 12 2026
Data centre scale strains insurance capacity as AI cyber threats accelerate, APRA warns
Regulator says concentrated, high-value projects are testing underwriting assumptions, while frontier AI models are shortening the time institutions have to find and fix vulnerabilities.
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- November 10 2026
Hyundai Marine & Fire makes US$374,000 payout to SK Telecom following data breach: report
Payment was made under a personal information liability insurance policy issued by the South Korean insurer.
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- November 4 2026
Zoe Zhang swaps Dubai for Singapore to lead Howden’s Asia digital infrastructure practice
She was formerly a practising lawyer focused on the telecoms, media and technology sector.
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- July 28 2026
Rapid data centre growth creates disproportionate insurance buying, Willis says
Lay See Ong, digital infrastructure industry leader for Asia at Willis in Singapore, says 'we are seeing increasingly sophisticated discussions around insurance purchasing'.
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- May 7 2026
Korean non-life overseas businesses weaken in 2025 as nat cats bite, life insurers surge on M&A
Financial Supervisory Service says it is closely monitoring overseas operations’ financial stability, citing market volatility, Middle East tensions and climate risks.
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- April 30 2026
AI creates cybersecurity ‘arms race’, Hong Kong firms face rising threat: Blackpanda’s George Wong
Cyber incidents hit a record high in 2025, and firms urgently need stronger defenses like zero-trust systems and multi-factor authentication.
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- December 23 2025
Acord aims for ‘absolute sweet spot’ with Singapore roll out of digital messaging platform
Ex-International Underwriting Association CEO Dave Matcham, now global ambassador for Acord Solutions Group, says the platform is part of a regional hub model called ‘Connected Markets’.
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- December 22 2025
SK Telecom facing US$1.5bn compensation payout following cyber breach: reports
South Korea's largest mobile network operator suffered the data breach in April, which impacted its 23 million users.
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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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- March 21 2025
Indonesia’s non-life GWP up 13.8% to US$46.7bn in 2024
Underwriting result for P&C insurance segment decreased more than tenfold to US$666m, while reinsurance saw a US$66.6m loss.
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- February 4 2025
Floodgates to open? India lifting FDI limit promises insurance landscape shift
Removing India's foreign investment cap for insurance companies could attract a surge of international capital, according to market experts.
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- November 25 2024
Asean US$7.5bn health insurance market sees increased competition, rising claims: Malaysian Re
The model of carriers acting as intermediaries between healthcare providers and patients, focusing on cost management, is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain in the face of changing market conditions, according to this year’s Asean Insurance Pulse report.
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- November 22 2024
Aon names Mike Yao as Asia director for life reinsurance analytics
In his new role, Singapore-based Yao will contribute to the development and articulation of the broker's analytics value proposition for its APAC clients.
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- November 21 2024
Aon promotes Singapore-based Magnus Roe to global chief data and analytics officer
Roe, who was global head of strategy, risk capital analytics for the broker, will integrate AI, data governance and analytics into the broker's data and analytics strategy, reporting to Aon COO Mindy Simon.
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- September 26 2024
Better cat data key to easing region’s growing capacity pressures: Perils’ APAC head
As insurance penetration and cat exposure rise in APAC, the availability of better quality data must go hand-in-hand with the growth of alternative capital sources. That leads the cat loss specialist to expand its loss data coverage in Japan & South-East Asia, said Darryl Pidcock.
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- July 1 2024
Gen AI prophecy turns reality as insurers count cost benefits
Artificial intelligence, blockchain and embedded solutions are delivering tangible cost savings and enabling more competitive premium rates, senior insurance executives told an industry forum.
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- June 13 2024
Australia’s 2024 insured nat cat losses top US$1bn: ICA
The country saw three weather events this year leading to 144,772 claims with the Christmas and New Year storms accounting for AU$1.3bn, data from the industry body shows.
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- February 5 2024
Taiwan non-life sector returns to profitability in 2023
Pre-tax profit for the non-life sector totalled US$557m as the drag from Covid-19 related losses eased.
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- November 17 2023
Unwillingness to deploy capacity comes from too many surprises in the covers: Allianz Re’s Steimen
The (re)insurance industry needs to make sure that it understands the risks via the use of models and has to invest more into better data as economic growth in Asia keeps driving losses up.
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- November 8 2023
Clarion call for more granular data to address accumulation risk in Asean, South Asia
Aggregation of data lags behind growing risks in the region as manufacturing shifts to fast-growing economies like India and Vietnam.
