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Asia Insurance Industry Awards 2016 - Some Forty Names in Finals for 20th Asia Awards
GIF 2016 Focus - Transforming cultures and mindsets
Health, Technology & Beyond - Catering to the changing consumers
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Health, Technology & Beyond - The consumeristic patients
Taiwan - Still room for growth
Taiwan - Regulator on a mission
Taiwan - Better life for longer
Taiwan - Protection for Taiwan's fast-ageing population
Taiwan - Non-Life: Flourishing future
Sri Lanka - Double-digit growth in 2015
Sri Lanka - Disaster insurance to government's rescue
Sri Lanka - Implementing the new RBC
Terrorism - Confronting the ongoing terrorist threat in Southeast Asia
Construction - Infrastructure Project Insurances: Getting it right
Healthcare in Asia - In pursuit of healthcare
Healthcare in Asia - Top 5 insurance regulatory "watchouts" in Singapore
Think Tank: The Geneva Association - The logic behind consolidation: A view from the outside
Legal Page - Major Legislative Developments affecting the UK Insurance Industry: Will Hong Kong follow suit?
Life Insurance Disruption - What has happened to the Value Chain?
Bancassurance - Leveraging data for growth
CFO Focus - The insurer's CFO: A corporate strategist first
IT in Insurance - The Internet of Things: Observations and predictions
Cyber - Growing a sustainable cyber insurance market in Asia
Focus on Data - IIRFA highlights the integral role of data analytics
Focus on Data - "Data, Data, Everywhere"
Sports - Risk Management for the Olympics
Mining - Coal mine safety in China - An insurance perspective
AEC Focus - Lessons from "Brexit" for the AEC
Book Review - The Social Business Imperative
Asia: Direct impact of Brexit on region seen as limited
EAIC 2016 - Championing industry renewal and innovation
Asia: Closing the protection gap
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Asia: Technology will change the face of the insurance game
Advanced markets in Asia see steady expansion in life and non-life - Swiss Re
Asia: Takaful in the digital era
Finalists of 13th Australian Insurance Industry Awards
Asian News - Australia: Regulator reviews role of Appointed Actuary
Asian News - China: Regulator identifying "too-big-to-fail" domestic insurers
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Asian News - Lombard International opens a Hong Kong brokerage
Asian News - India: First-ever local privately-held reinsurer obtains initial clearance
Asian News - South Korea: National reinsurer to see record high profits this year
Asian News - Japan: Major banks to reveal commissions received from insurers
Asian News - Macau: Legislators approve voluntary central provident fund
Asian News - Malaysia: Regulatory risk parameters to be scrutinised
Asian News - Nepal: Draft law to make insurers launch micro-insurance plans
Asian News - Singapore: MAS proposes lower capital requirements for insurers
Asian News - Singapore: Munich Re strengthens regional hub operations
Asian News - Thailand: Insurance sector moving to adopt insurtech
Global News - IAIS releases updated G-SII assessment methodology
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Corporate Risk Management News - COSO seeks public comment on updated ERM framework
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Product Bytes
Diary of Events
People on the move
In this extract from The Geneva Papers, two issues - the drivers of consolidation and if this activity create value - are discussed.
Legal experts look at several major legislative developments in the UK, highlighting that they will make a significant impact upon the pre-existing insurance legislation in Hong Kong.
Insurers need to be mindful of weak generators of value that are vulnerable to attacks from disruptors.
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Providing more market-customised protection triggered by the customer's lifecycle events via sophisticated database mining technologies will be the key for today's Asian bancassurers.
The CFO in an insurance company has to transform himself into a corporate strategist whose advice is sought eagerly by the CEO and the board of directors.
Unsolvable core business problems can now be solved; data transmission cost continues to fall faster than storage cost. These are some of the changes which have implications for the insurance industry.
The inaugural Asia Cyber Risk Summit with the theme "Can Insurers Offer Cyber Resilience?" addressed the challenges of the still nascent domain of cyber insurance.
The Insurance Information and Ratemaking Forum of Asia (IIRFA) held their annual conclave in Hyderabad in May. We bring the highlights.
Speakers at the 8th SAS General Insurance Conference share the common issues surrounding data and the steps needed to develop an analytics-driven organisation.