Hong Kong's resurgence
Hong Kong
Expanding insurance ambitions
Hong Kong bets on marine insurance to strengthen maritime hub ambitions
Balancing global competition and structural strengths
Brokers squeezed by rising healthcare and talent crunch
GBA links, AI and wealth demand fuel next phase of growth
Demand for W&I coverage strong, but breaches uncommon
Hong Kong's marine insurance market: It's time to close the gap
Rising climate risk events forcing insurers to restrategise
Energy-stressed households may trigger emerging property risks
Alternative methods of cooking not a higher risk, regardless of behavioural shift in energy crisis
Philippine insurers urged to tighten war risk rules amid Middle East tensions
Geopolitical risks reshape aviation insurance in APAC
Flying through headwinds
Extreme weather and the route ahead in aviation insurance
Operational losses a balance sheet risk rather than insurance issue
Ten years of WiRE: How women in reinsurance reshaped the industry
India's Maritime Insurance Pool to facilitate uninterrupted maritime insurance coverage
General
Manual checks may mitigate rising spoofing threats
Parametric's push across Asia
AVs in Singapore face an underwriting conundrum
Insurance AI adoption still lags despite investment surge
View from India: Enabling MGAs is the right approach
Regulatory push to drive general insurance market in Cambodia
Life & health
Vietnam's income boom sets stage for life insurance evolution
Asian retirement ecosystems need a fundamental shift
Long-term care insurance will now be available across the country
Vietnam's Insurance Business Law, the journey so far
Asian
China: Chinese insurers to reinsure Russian LNG supplies to China
Japan: General Insurance Association of Japan updates compliance guide amid regulatory changes
New Zealand: Financial and insurance services are among those facing the weakest competitive pressure
Singapore: Life insurers record highest first-quarter payouts since 2021
Vietnam: National health insurance coverage will be expanded
Products and alliances
People on the move
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INSURANCE - General
As Asia’s protection gap widens and traditional reinsurance structures strain under the weight of uninsurable risk, a quiet revolution is gathering pace.
MARKET PROFILE - Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s maritime insurance sector is outperforming broader non-life market growth, driven largely by P&I insurance.
As a Singaporean, I’ve always felt a kinship to Hong Kong; it has enough similarities to my home country that being in Hong Kong always feels familiar and even the complaints that its citizens have (ballooning housing prices and a high cost of...
Hong Kong is advancing reforms across risk-based capital, captive insurance and insurance-linked securities to boost competitiveness, attract global insurers and investors, and strengthen its role as a regional hub for risk management and...
Despite the challenges of the past few years, Hong Kong remains an important insurance hub within the region acting as a bridge between China and the rest of the world.
As households in the Middle East and APAC work towards bypassing fuel shortages, stressed consumers may resort to unsafe practices such as the usage of inferior appliances, thus creating an emerging area of risk.
Unattended cooking is already the leading cause of residential fires, regardless of behavioural shifts caused by alternative methods of cooking.
The Philippine Insurers and Reinsurers Association (PIRA) is calling on insurers to overhaul war-risk underwriting, strengthen investment and currency hedging strategies.
Rising geopolitical tensions and increasingly unpredictable conflict zones are pushing aviation insurers in Asia-Pacific to adopt more proactive, intelligence-led underwriting approaches.
The aviation insurance market is navigating a complex mix of geopolitical tensions, supply chain pressures and talent shortages, even as rising demand in Asia creates new opportunities for growth.
Rising climate volatility is not only driving demand for aviation risk insurance but also reshaping how insurers assess risk.
What began as a small professional network in 2016 has grown into a 600-strong community reshaping how Singapore’s reinsurance industry thinks about talent, leadership and inclusion.
The Bharat Maritime Insurance Pool will enable India to strengthen sovereign control over its maritime trade and ensure continuity of trade in the event of
Jamming and spoofing are not new threats, but the current conflicts have publicised their disruptive potential. Ship operators must cross-check digital navigation against radar systems and even traditional paper charts.
Autonomous vehicles (AV) are being deployed across Singapore on pilot projects with broader adoption expected soon, as regulators and decision makers await clarity on liability regulations and enforcement.
China has expanded its pilot long term care insurance scheme, across the country so that its rapidly greying population gets systematic long-term care and the elderly are able to lead a healthier and better life.
In June 2022, we wrote about how Vietnamese insurance industry had weathered the pandemic to achieve back-to-back premium growth in the first three months of 2022 and was expected to benefit from the draft amended law on insurance business which is...
Russia’s Central Bank has instructed Russian insurers to reinsure risks related to liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies to China with Chinese insurers, reported the Odessa Journal.
The General Insurance Association of Japan (GIAJ) has revised its “Compliance Guide for Solicitation” amid recent regulatory changes in the country surrounding insurance solicitation and sales practices.
Financial, insurance, electricity, gas, water and waste management services are among the industries facing the weakest competitive pressure in New Zealand, according to the first State of Competition report released by Commerce Commission of New...