India: Authorities recommend measures for effective healthcare through health insurance The National Health Authority (NHA) and the IRDAI in a joint report released last Saturday have recommended best practices, common standards, collaborative measures and IT framework for effective...
Philippines: Insurers allowed to undertake securities borrowing & lending The Insurance Commission (IC) is allowing insurers to participate in securities borrowing and...
Australia: Autumn 2019 reflects pattern of extreme weather The Australian Actuaries Climate Index shows that autumn 2019 continued the pattern of extreme...
Taiwan: Regulator mulls changes to risk-capital charge for bond ETF investments Taiwan's top financial regulator is considering new rules that could raise the cost of investing in...
Thailand: Regulator may ease liability adequacy rules The Office of the Insurance Commission (OIC) wants to ease the liability adequacy test (LAT)...
Australia: Senate creates FinTech & RegTech committee The Australian Senate has approved a motion to set up a select committee to inquire and report on...
China: Anbang sells 15 US hotels to consortium A consortium led by South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments has agreed to buy 15 hotels in the...