Life & health
View from India - Advertising campaigns and insurance awareness
General
Helping preserve Japan's agricultural traditions
Reinsurance renewals: Pricing remains stable, reflecting a maturing market
Asia: Cradle for innovation
A liability-driven investor with a global focus
ILS potential within Belt and Road Initiative
On the road to supreme services
Greater Bay Area - Hong Kong's hub advantage
News
ZhongAn partners with SE Asia's super app company
Reinsurance market demand weakened by C-ROSS
Five listed insurance giants show combined business growth of over 10% in 2018
South Korea
Finding new ways to grow
A new paradigm for the industry
Building a better mousetrap
Looking to strike big with 'small ticket' items
Insurers seek cross-industry collaboration
Reinventing Insurance
Unlocking new solutions for the Japanese market
Blockchain and insurance: Show me the customer benefit
An ecosystem for the future
Successes and failures of blockchain proofs of concept
Smart insurance contracts: Automating insurance
A little prediction goes a long way
Big Data: Practical use cases
Big data brings big opportunities
Using big data to monitor and forecast corporate insolvency
Claims
Financial lines and liability claims rising in Asia-Pacific
Data as the fuel for analytics
Think Tank
The Geneva Association - Virtual competition: Online platforms, consumer outcomes and competition in insurance
Revealing insights from insurance industry leaders in Asia
Asian
Asia: Cryptocurrency industry faces insurance hurdle
Australia: Further actions required by industry and govt on insurance in super
Bangladesh: Two companies may receive insurance licences
China: Insurers struggle with immediate operational concerns
Hong Kong: First-ever blockchain system launched for motor insurance authentication
India: Farmers turn away from crop insurance scheme
Japan: Unusually high number of Nat CAT seen in 2018
Malaysia: Free national health insurance scheme launched
Pakistan: Regulator obliges insurers to have cyber cover
Singapore: InsurTech start-up signs MoUs for insurance solutions
South Korea: Regulator plans to conduct in-depth audits
Taiwan: Life insurers look at US municipal bonds
Thailand: New insurance regulations take effect on 1 January
Vietnam: Insurance premiums jump in 2018
Global
Surge in UK insurance fraud cases in 2018 - KPMG
Risk
APAC: Cyber a close second to business interruption among top concerns for companies - Allianz
Product Bites
People on the move
REINSURANCE
CHINA
Ping An’s Mr Shao Yong Chang provides first-hand insights on China’s becoming the world’s second largest life insurance market.
Buy Now
INVESTMENT
Allianz Investment Management’s Singapore-headquartered Ms Ritu Arora talks about becoming ‘the strongest insurance investor’.
COUNTRY PROFILE - South Korea
We speak to RGA Korea CEO Michael Shin about the outlook for Korean reinsurers and the changes that the market may see in the coming year.
NOTEBOOK - Big Data: Practical use cases
Data in the field of credit-risk modelling goes beyond traditional sources – financial statements, for example, can now be complemented in other dimensions with news or social media. Euler Hermes APAC’s Tricia Koh...
NOTEBOOK
Analytics is an essential tool to help insurers remain competitive but traditional insurers within the Asia-Pacific are struggling to get access to the data in their legacy systems to enable advanced analytics. This report from EY...
NOTEBOOK - Think Tank
The World Economic Forum estimates that online platforms could unlock $10tn of value for business and the wider society over the next 10 years. A report from The Geneva Association’s Ms Anna Maria D’Hulster.
February comes with the jollity of the Lunar New Year. This time it is the Year of the Earth Pig that ends the rotation of the 12-year cycle. Hence everyone expects 2019 to be ‘festive and relaxed’ and beneficial to all – and...
Indian insurance, with a history stretching back 200 years, is like a jigsaw puzzle. But some parts of the puzzle are missing.
Asia Insurance Review spoke to one of the world’s largest cooperative insurance movements – Japan-based Zenkyoren – to find out its priorities for the year.
A look at how the reinsurance industry fared at the January renewals and the outlook for 2019.
The International Association of Insurance Supervisors secretary general Jonathan Dixon talks about the unique place that Asia holds in the association’s world view.
Asia Insurance Review spoke with ECIS-focused Bermudian ILS specialist Phoenix CRetro chief executive Kirill Savrassov about insurance-linked securities as a risk transfer option for BRI.
A look at what the GBA means for insurance in Hong Kong – what’s real and what’s hype.
Combined with changes to regulations and accounting standards, life insurers are expected to see a decrease in revenue from insurance premiums and increased operating costs. We speak to the Korean Life Insurance Association (KLIA) to see how the...
The general insurance industry in Korea is facing some regulatory pressures yet the General Insurance Association of Korea maintains an optimistic outlook.
Asia Insurance Review spoke to MetLife Japan’s Yasuhiro Maenaka about how the company intends to leverage recent collaborations to improve its compliance processes and deliver more targeted health solutions.
There is a paradox with blockchain: Everyone is excited about it, but nobody is really sure how it should be used – experts from Simon-Kucher discuss.
EY and Guardtime’s blockchain platform, Insurwave, aims to solve several issues in marine insurance and build a future-proofed foundation.
The story of an innovative financial technology and data business that is actively transforming the asset management industry. Stephen Collins shares his thoughts.
Manulife Asia chief analytics officer Laura Cao discusses how big data benefits both insurers and customers. Laura Cao
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty analysed over 471,000 global insurance claims from 206 territories from 1 July 2013 to 1 July 2018 amounting to $66.5bn.
Cryptocurrency exchanges and traders in Asia are struggling to insure themselves against the risk of hacking and theft, reported Reuters. The lack of insurance is deterring large fund managers from investing in a nascent market.
The prospects of recent insurance-specific initiatives to address the deficiencies of insurance arrangements in superannuation are limited, noted the Productivity Commission.
The Bangladesh government is set to hand out licences for new insurance companies even though many recently established insurers are yet to find a toehold in the industry despite five years of operation.