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Sep 2016

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September-Home
Editor's Message
Guest Editorial
Magazine article aboutChris-Ma-The-future-of-insurance-customer-centricity

Chris Ma: The future of insurance - customer centricity

Interviews

AGCS: High operational efficiency for a flat cost ratio

Mr K Sanath Kumar: India's insurance man for all seasons

Ms Farzana Chowdhury: A CEO and also a local Sustainable Development Goal pioneer

Malaysian Re gets retakaful business back on track

Digital: It takes a village

Curtain raiser

Asia Insurance Industry Awards - All set for Victory!

Strategising to cope with the uncertainties

Cover Story
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Reinsurance - A global Asia: Local reinsurers setting their sights on a wider world

Country Profile
Magazine article aboutStill-soaring

China

Still soaring

China takes flight

2016 China market overview

The innovation army

Spotlight
Magazine article aboutReforming-Myanmar-s-insurance-sector

Reforming Myanmar's insurance sector

General Insurance
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Cyber insurance: Good growth but gaps in coverage still exist

Understanding Japan typhoon flood risk

Agriculture: Factors for sustainable schemes

Life & Health
Magazine article aboutDirect-channel-global-customer-insights

Direct channel global customer insights

Wearable technology in insurance: An Asian perspective

Life Insurance Disruption: Insurers underestimate the scope of their innovation challenge

Life insurers need to reach a new breed of consumers

Insights
Magazine article aboutThe-Geneva-Association-Financial-Innovation-A-solution-for-the-current-economic-climate

Think Tank

The Geneva Association - Financial Innovation: A solution for the current economic climate

Legal Page

Legal Page - What happens when a TPD claimant is declared bankrupt in Australia?

Special Feature
Magazine article aboutAsian-insurers-and-regulators-confront-digitisation-challenges

Digitisation Focus

Asian insurers and regulators confront digitisation challenges

Asia Anti-Money Laundering Summit - Stepping up the game against money laundering

Corporate Risk Management

Marine awash with counterparty and cyber risks

MARIM Conference 2016: Reimagining risk management

News
Magazine article aboutAsia-Employers-to-spend-more-on-health-insurance-over-next-3-years

Asian

Asia:Employers to spend more on health insurance over next 3 years

Japan's quakes in April are the costliest in 1H2016 - Aon Benfield

Volatile and complicated marine risks on the rise

Asia Pacific: Allianz launches its next-generation digital sales tool

Australia: QBE reports 46% plunge in 1H net gains

Cambodia: Life sector boosts 1H insurance market growth

China: Insurers ordered to audit risks in vast swathe of functions

China: Regulator to tighten insurance intermediary licensing

Hong Kong: QBE will be exclusive supplier of GI products for Manulife

Hong Kong: More planning and resources needed for GN 16 implementation - EY

India: Proposed GST to have negative impact on insurance

India: Regulator sets out timeframe for mandatory listing of insurers

Indonesia: Prudential ties up with pawnshop group for premium collection

Japan: Foreign insurers call for improvement in risk management

South Korea: Insurers to be given more leeway to invest overseas

Malaysia: Insurance mart to undergo most significant change in decades

Myanmar: 3rd-party auto insurance premiums increased

Nepal: Regulator to make home insurance mandatory

Pakistan: Regulator wants insurers to update websites

Philippines: Insurance regulator to push mandatory disaster cover

Singapore: China Re opens first overseas branch

Sri Lanka: Impact of May floods on insurers exceeds that of 2004 tsunami

Taiwan: Lower risk charges seen as increasing strain on insurers' risk capacity

Thailand: Muang Thai Group clinches operating licence in Laos

Vietnam: 1H insurance sales see six-year high growth

Corporate Risk Management

Corporate Risk Management - Ransomware one of the most dangerous cyber threats today: Symantec

Corporate Risk Management - Nagoya and Guangzhou ports most exposed to CAT losses: RMS

Product Bytes

Product Bytes

Journal

Diary of Events

People on the move

Interviews

AGCS: High operational efficiency for a flat cost ratio

The first female on the Board of Management and also its youngest, Ms Sinéad Browne, COO of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) shares how she has managed to maintain high operational efficiency and effectiveness of a global network that spans over 160 countries.

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Mr K Sanath Kumar: India's insurance man for all seasons

Mr K Sanath Kumar, Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of National Insurance Company, has a three-decade long career with the general insurance industry in India. He has lately been the government's "go-to man" whenever they needed someone to provide leadership to a public sector non-life company that is in need of a top man. In an exclusive interview with Asia Insurance Review he speaks on the developments of the industry over the past three decades and the road ahead.

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Ms Farzana Chowdhury: A CEO and also a local Sustainable Development Goal pioneer

Ms Farzana Chowdhury, Managing Director and CEO of Green Delta Insurance Company, was honoured at the UN Global Compact Leaders' Summit 2016 held in New York in June as one of 10 Local Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Pioneers for her efforts in promoting gender equality in Bangladesh. In an exclusive interview with Asia Insurance Review, she speaks about the award and how it would act as an impetus for her to continue with her campaign for women's empowerment in Bangladesh.

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Malaysian Re gets retakaful business back on track

Its newly-formed retakaful window will benefit from economies of scale through accessing the company's deep resources, says Mr Zainudin Ishak, President & CEO of Malaysian Re.

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Digital: It takes a village

Innovation labs and accelerator programmes are aplenty but it takes a collaborative ecosystem to help bring new ideas to fruition, according to KPMG in Singapore's Mr Jan Reinmueller, Head of Digital Village, and Mr Paul Brenchley, Insurance Advisory Director.

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