Heinrich Eder: 13,149 days in the reinsurance market
Markel: Strong potential growth for credit insurance in Asia
DBS: Let the results speak!
Asia Trusted Life Agents & Advisers Awards 2016 - The selection of Asia's first Insurance Agent of the Year!
Agents and Life Management - The tech-enabled adviser
Agents and Life Management - The decline, or not, of the life agency channel in Asia
Life Insurance Disruption - Vulnerable segments
Nat CATs in Asia - Special Roundtable Focus: How can the industry do more?
Nat CATs in Asia - The known unknowns in CAT modelling
Nat CATs in Asia - Population displacement: A catastrophe risk
Myanmar - A country opening to the world
Myanmar - Total liberalisation will happen soon
Myanmar - Asia's last frontier economy now opens to the world
Myanmar - AIA: Foreign insurers can help develop the market
Myanmar - Myanmar's insurance needs
Myanmar - Protecting and maintaining investment flows
Innovation: Wellness, wearables, and universal truths
Automated underwriting for the future
Life Journey Asia: How life insurers in Asia can grow value
Think Tank - Big Data, Big Impact
Legal Page - Pricing risk: The importance of considering the Insured's corporate culture
Anti-Money Laundering - Risky Business: Money laundering and the insurance industry
Bancassurance - Evolving with bank customers
M&A Focus - Winning the M&A game
Interview - Land of the rising risk managers
Interview - An emerging but risky business
AEC Focus - Removing non-tariff barriers a key priority for AEC
AEC Focus - ASEAN: Nominations for YAMA 2016 are open
Asia: Lloyd's, Guy Carp and UK's Met Office in move to create agricultural weather index for SEA
Asia: Allianz launches its first innovation lab in Asia
Asia: Macau launches programme for "Young Insurance Practitioners" in EAIC
Australia: Profit expectations pushing up premium rates
China - CIRC launches Shanghai Insurance Exchange
Hong Kong: BHSI secures one of Asia's largest insurance deals
Hong Kong: Entries for HK Insurance Awards 2016 open
India: First-ever national disaster management plan unveiled
Indonesia: Insurance execs upbeat about industry prospects this year
Japan: Negative interest rates shut down savings-type policies
South Korea: Insurers sell assets ahead of new accounting rules
Malaysia: Health Minister warns out-of-pocket spending too high
New Zealand: Room for life insurers to move from commission system
Pakistan: Finance Minister proposes tax revamp for insurers
Philippines: More consolidation ahead in non-life sector
Singapore: MAS introduces regulatory sandbox to test fintech solutions
Singapore: A need to address rising healthcare costs
Thailand: Life sector to grow, but less robustly
Vietnam: Insurance premiums up 20% in Jan-Apr to more than US$1 bln
Global News - Germany and France looking at EUR1-2 billion of insured losses from floods
Global News - AXA Group divests assets in the tobacco industry
Global News - Imaginatik and Ingenin: Walking hand in hand towards innovation
Corporate Risk Management News - Asia's risk management community can do more for CAT risks: PARIMA
Corporate Risk Management News - Singapore: New cyber risk management initiative "CyRiM" launched
Corporate Risk Management News - Top emerging risks for (re)insurance industry identified: Swiss Re
Curtain-raiser - 20th AAC beckons you to Gurugram!
Product Bytes
Events Page - The 35th Korean Re Seminar brings together global reinsurance experts
Diary of Events
People on the move
Markel International's trade credit & political risk team in Singapore celebrated its fifth anniversary recently. Credit and political risk insurance has grown significantly in the region, with total private market premium in Asia Pacific amounting to over US$500 million in 2015 according to Markel's estimates. We spoke to Ms Ewa Rose, Head of Global Trade Credit & Political Risk, who was in town to mark the occasion, on Markel's optimistic outlook for the region.
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Heads were turned in April 2015 when DBS and Manulife sealed their bancassurance agreement which became effective 1 January this year. We catch up with Mr Rick Vargo, Managing Director and Regional Head of Bancassurance, DBS, to check on the progress.