Executive Chat - Aviva: Seeking a new paradigm
Exclusive interview with Nepal Insurance Regulator: Greater cooperation the need of the hour
New India: A decade in the hot seat
HDI strengthens footing in the region
Aon: Rising level of medical malpractice a concern in Asia
BlackRock: A greater risk appetite for alternative asset classes
Bancassurance - Exclusive banc-ing: What's in it for banks?
Australia - Consumer centricity and trust key goals for Australian industry
Australia - New mandate sees APRA supervising health insurers
Australia - The value of Third Party Administration for insurers
CFO - Steering straight despite the sea change
Marine - Risk management ever more crucial in tough marine market
Motor in a Driverless World - Be "smart" to thrive in motor
Personalising insurance
Top three challenges for global executives
Healthcare transformation: Pressure to pick up pace
Think Tank - The Geneva Association: Perspectives on Consolidation in Insurance: "More on the inside view"
Legal Page - Preserving privilege following a data breach
Regulation Focus - Changes in paradise: How new Bermudan regulation will affect Hong Kong insurers
Agriculture Focus - Can agriculture insurance keep up with climate change?
Corporate Governance - Good corporate governance and ethical culture: Is it a choice or dilemma?
Cyber Risks - Mitigating against cyber attacks amid the growing threat in Singapore
Cyber Risks - Time to wake up to the risks of cyber crime
Book Review: Managing Cyber Risk in the Financial Sector
Data Focus - Use of data for product development in insurance - Present and future
Interview - Mining: Digging deeper into the downturn
AEC News - ASEAN Insurance Forum launched to help integrate markets in the region
Asian News - Region: Expect more customised rather than simplified products in the future
Asian News - Australia: Draft life rules propose commission clawback exceptions
Asian News - Cambodia: Govt to draft new life insurance regulations
Asian News - China: NIRA aims to meet need for nuclear capacity
Asian News - China: Tough rules over short- and medium-term life products take effect
Asian News - India: Lloyd's to make long-awaited application for reinsurance branch
Asian News - India: Chennai floods largest Nat CAT last year
Asian News - Indonesia: Govt to set up National Shariah Finance Committee
Asian News - Indonesia: Asia Reinsurance Brokers renames local brokerage
Asian News - Japan: Earthquake kills more than 40, injures more than 1,500
Asian News - Japan: Govt offers trade insurance for infrastructure and other projects in Asia
Asian News - South Korea: Anbang's acquisition of Allianz unit roils local market
Asian News - Pacific Life Re to open branch in South Korea
Asian News - Macau: Life insurance market drives total premiums in 2015
Asian News - IGIH to grow KL office as regional hub
Asian News - Philippines: Sun Life tops life insurance industry in 2015
Asian News - Singapore: Cyber insurance mart to surge by 50% this year
Asian News - Singapore: Govt rules out unemployment insurance
Asian News - Thailand: Govt mulling plan to promote mortgage insurance
Asian News - Vietnam: Finance Ministry to set minimum reinsurance retention
Global News - 2015 global insured losses at US$30.5 billion is below 5- and 10-year average
Global News - Digitalisation not a silver bullet to cross-border barriers - Insurance Europe
Global News - Munich Re and Beazley to offer cyber protection for digital assets and IT infrastructure
Corporate Risk Management News - World Bank to help countries tackle climate risks
Corporate Risk Management News - RIMS 2016 highlights its expanding footprint in Asia
Product Bytes
Curtain Raiser - • Insurance Information and Ratemaking Forum of Asia (IIRFA) 2016: Striving for excellence through data analytics
Curtain Raiser - Nepal to host SAARC Insurance Regulators Meet and International Insurance conference
Event Page - "Celebrating diversity, creating value" - IFoA
Event Page - Singapore: AIA cultivates digital health startups
Diary of Events
People on the Move
COVER STORY
Banks in recent years have been enthusiastically courted by insurers to enter into multi-million dollar partnerships. Insurers still see bank access as opening doors to more preferred clients. But why are banks still in the game? Is bancassurance getting more important to banks? We check out the banks' perspectives on the tie-ups and explore what could make or break the vital partnership.
COUNTRY PROFILE
Asia Insurance Review's annual breakfast roundtable in Sydney with some nine leading insurance industry professionals touched on a myriad of topics ncluding being customer-centric, winning trust, sustainable underwriting, capacity, data analytics...
SPECIAL FEATURE
With the 10th Asia Insurance CFO Summit set to take place in Bangkok this month, we spoke to four industry CFOs on the importance of collaborating with stakeholders, developing strategic insights, and managing the transformation of the finance...
Mr Chris Wei, Executive Chairman of Aviva Asia & FPI and Global Chairman of Aviva Digital, has achieved much in an illustrious career that has spanned over 20 years and counting. Yet, he remains driven, to seek that paradigm change in the insurance...
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The Beema Samiti faced one of its most challenging times over the past one year as a result of the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal in 2015. It rose to the occasion in getting insurers to speed up the claims process and offering them technical...
Mr G Srinivasan has been one of the longest serving CEOs in the history of the Indian insurance industry, having been in the hot seat of two public sector companies for close to 10 years now. Currently Chairman-cum-Managing Director of New India...
Banks in recent years have been enthusiastically courted by insurers to enter into multi-million dollar partnerships. Insurers still see bank access as opening doors to more preferred clients. But why are banks still in the game? Is bancassurance...
In this extract from the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) Insight 2016 report, we look at the regulator's priorities in the supervision of health insurers which came under APRA's purview last year.
Many industries such as banking, manufacturing, telecommunications, both in Australia and across the world, employ specialist Third Party Administrators (TPAs) to assist with providing a quality service to their customers. Mr Daniel Lukich of...
The difficult conditions facing the maritime sector means that insurers should pay more attention to risk management efforts in order to curb costs amid a depleting premium pool.
Technology - including telematics, mobile apps, digital payments and driverless cars - will be a key driver to succeeding in the motor insurance space, said speakers at the 4th Asia Motor Insurance & Claims Management Conference. Are you getting...
Too often, we hear about insurance companies struggling to attract, engage with and hold onto their customers in the long term. We explore one way where insurers can fully engage with their customers.
LIMRA'S recent research shows that the top three challenges of insurance executives around the world are talent management, growth and regulation.
The reality of the new healthcare era was vividly outlined at the 11th Asia Health Insurance Conference where experts urged healthcare providers and insurers alike to embrace the revolutionary changes led by technology or potentially fall behind.
Given that integration costs and plans in an M&A are initially formulated with limited information, it is not uncommon that the initial estimates for both time and costs may prove to be incorrect. In this extract from The Geneva Papers, we learn how...
As the risk of legal and regulatory claims arising from data breaches grow, protecting and claiming privilege over these sensitive reports and findings will be critical in protecting a company's interests.
A combination of low tax rates, good business support infrastructure and light-touch regulation makes Bermuda an attractive off-shore location for insurers in Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia. However, some of this is about to change and insurers...
The mining industry is presently seeing a downturn with most commodities' prices expected to remain downtrodden for the rest of this decade.