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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 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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- November 2 2026
SIRC 2026: Singapore industry group forms US$200m data centres insurance facility
Facility is backed by MSIG, Gallagher Re, Scor, Samsung Re and the Cybersecurity Association Singapore.
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- October 29 2026
Emerge Group acquires Merlion Insurance Brokers
Labuan reinsurance broker has subsequently been renamed Emerge Reinsurance Brokers, or Emerge Re.
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- October 29 2026
Scor Business Solutions sets sights on profitable APAC build-out with specialty push
Commercial insurance arm aims to expand on its property, power, energy and construction strengths, while bringing global specialty capabilities, including marine, cyber and alternative risk solutions, to Asia, regional commercial head Amy Fu says.
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- October 27 2026
Onshore captives, third-party capital primed for rapid growth in APAC: BlackRock
Insurers must think holistically about their balance sheets, assets, liabilities, and limited capital, about using more reinsurance to free up capacity for products they want to grow, the asset manager's global insurance strategist Mike Erickson tells IAN.
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- October 21 2026
A long way from chicken sheds, BESS market comes of age as insurers face new data centres co-location exposure
Battery energy storage system (BESS) pricing has fallen sharply, but thermal runaway remains a concern for insurers, Tom Harries, director of energy, power, and infrastructure at broker Amwins, tells InsuranceAsia News' Between the Lines podcast.
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- October 8 2026
APAC data centre expansion concentrates risk across construction, power, operations and cyber: Howden
Insurers and brokers are increasingly providing integrated programs addressing both construction and operational phases, with delay in start-up cover responding only to delays caused by an underlying insured physical loss event.
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- September 21 2026
Infrastructure: Data centres are racing ahead of the rules built to insure them
Data centres have become a defining infrastructure story of the AI era, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. A single hyperscale facility can now draw more than 100MW, and in Malaysia alone roughly 13GW of data centre capacity is either planned or already under development. Behind every one of those numbers sits a construction and […]
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- September 11 2026
RVS 2026: Back to the reinsurance drawing board? 6 APAC takeaways from Monte Carlo
Record capital, falling property rates and a scramble for growth dominated this year’s Rendez-Vous de Septembre, in a market where overhaul of programs is very much on the agenda.
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- September 7 2026
Data centre super cycle offers US$200bn premium opportunity, but fuels accumulation risk: Swiss Re
Investment in data centres and energy infrastructure is the biggest opportunity and risk for the insurance industry over the next four years, according to Swiss Re Institute.
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- August 27 2026
Marsh creates US$10bn global exchange for digital infrastructure risk
New exchange will provide US domiciled companies with global exposures access to bespoke digital infrastructure risk transfer.
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- August 25 2026
US$750bn APAC data centre build forces underwriting rethink: Willis
While capacity remains available, insurers are becoming more selective in assessing the risks, Lay See Ong, digital infrastructure industry leader for Asia at Willis, tells InsuranceAsia News' Between the Lines podcast.
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- August 6 2026
Power bottlenecks, alternative energy strategies drive new insurability risks for data centres: Aon
As grid constraints intensify, data centres developers are turning to behind-the-meter generation, batteries and hybrid energy systems, according to Terence Williams, head of commercial risk for APAC at Aon.
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- August 5 2026
APAC data centre operators face ‘rapidly’ changing risk landscape: HDI
Natural catastrophes and rising global temperatures are fuelling growing risk for data centres in Asia Pacific.
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- July 30 2026
Lockton rolls out global advisory practice for data centres
Practice will be co-led by James Nelson, based in the US, and Sam Baker, based in the UK.
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- July 24 2026
Opinion: Gargantuan data centres present one of the greatest opportunities for premium income in a generation
Fire-prone, water-guzzling, and tornado-vulnerable, these city-sized new builds - with their vast power demands - highlight a step-change in risk.
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- July 20 2026
Aon expands data centre lifecycle progam to US$5bn
It is the third time this year that the program has expanded amid booming demand for sophisticated coverage of digital infrastructure assets.
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- July 20 2026
Marsh expands US$2.7bn data centre construction insurance facility to Asia
Addition of Asian projects to Nimbus follows expansion into Australia and New Zealand in January.
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- June 10 2026
Risks are not new, but data centre demand to test Asian insurers’ mettle as capacity tightens
Soaring AI-driven construction across Asia Pacific is straining insurance capacity as fires, earthquake risks, and multi-billion-dollar price tags challenge underwriters.
