INSTANDA, a policy administration and digital distribution platform for the global insurance market, has appointed Mr Jerry Hall as head of business development, APAC.
Insurers must be aware of financial market trends, particularly, recently, when the need to understand and act on these trends has grown more urgent and expanded to more facets of the insurance business, said Swiss Re head of life and health reinsurance APAC excluding China, Ms Daisy Ning.
The first quarter of 2025 brought a series of devastating natural disasters across the globe and Asia was not spared from their destructive impact.
A promising area in insurance is digital health underwriting, where insurers use electronic health records - increasingly adopted across APAC - to conduct underwriting assessments more efficiently, according to Swiss Re head of life and health reinsurance APAC excluding China, Ms Daisy Ning.
Euclid Transactional has appointed Ms Low Wai Ling as senior vice president and tax underwriter, APAC. She is the first tax underwriter based in the APAC region to join Euclid Transactional's global tax insurance team.
Chubb has appointed Ms Janene Blizzard as the head of accident and health (A&H) for Asia Pacific, effective 1 June 2025.
Primary insurance companies from Central and West Asia have increased their attention to international reinsurance business as they seek to diversify their existing domestic books of business and establish a presence in foreign markets, according to a report by AM Best.
In a major step toward global collaboration on disaster risk finance, four Regional Risk Pools convened in Frankfurt in April 2025 for a CEO Summit hosted by Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, to put shared commitments into action - backed by a new EUR 4.7m ($5.3m) grant supporting joint solutions, capacity building and knowledge-sharing across continents.
Aon published its Q1 Global Catastrophe Recap - April 2025 yesterday, which analyzed the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during the first quarter of the year.
In Asia, the construction industry is set to experience continued growth this year because of both government stimulus and private investments.