General
Perfecting the platform
COVID-19 and political risk: Fuel to the fire
Product liability claims and vaccines
Claiming the future
Plugging into the telco ecosystem
Life & health
Aviva deal signals larger ambitions for Singlife
Burnishing the brand
Staying healthy during the pandemic
Closing the protection gap: An opportune time
The opportunity unfolding in health insurance
Preventive medicine: Saving money, saving lives
Indonesia
Optimism in the face of adversity
Regulator issues timely guidance
Double trouble for Indonesian reinsurers
InsurTechs get great support from regulator
General insurers adapt to challenging times
Virtual workshop on ICS and IFRS
The only way is up
Japan: The stability of a mature market
India: The path to resilience
Hong Kong: A future in digital adoption and health
Philippines: The fight to become more relevant
Singapore: Pandemic presents new lease of life to insurers
Moving core to cloud
Insurers use tech to navigate post-COVID-19 world
Threat of cyber terrorism to commercial property
What climate change means for reinsurance
Tokyo 2021: The risks facing the Olympics
Emerging risks from the digital realm
Property risk in a post-pandemic economy
The Geneva Association - From risk transfer to prevention services
Existing cyber security concerns grow
Digital health gathers pace
Asian
New Dawn Risk new regional partnership
Australia: Health insurance funds see fall in profitability amidst pandemic
China: Mainland Chinese insurance purchases in HK plunge by 76%
India: Regulator to study life insurance index-linked products
Singapore: Insurance giant to sell stake in mega insurance deal
Singapore: Holding company acquires 80% of PIB
South Korea: Major life insurers to raise premium rates
Risk
Collaboration on enhancing climate resilience with parametric insurance
Insurers were slow to adopt digital
Infographics
Product Bites
People on the move
INSURANCE - General
INSURANCE - Life & health
The COVID-19 pandemic has created the perfect opportunity for the insurance industry to close the mortality protection gap in Asia Pacific.
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RISK
As business continues to move towards a remote-office environment, online connectivity is more important than ever. With that increased reliance on the internet comes an increased risk in the cyber sphere.
TECHNOLOGY
Cloud-based SaaS core system software is enabling life insurers to shift their CapEx to OpEx.
A study from The Geneva Association and the Insurance IoT Observatory looks at the transformation of traditional insurance risk transfer to technology-driven risk reduction and prevention services.
Time and the hour run through the roughest day. With hope abiding, man learns to go with the flow, making working from home work. We even had the impulse of the regular September industry highs of the Monte Carlo Rendezvous and IUMI making waves...
Lloyd’s has been in Singapore for the past 20 years and the specialist insurance and reinsurance market is planning for a future based on growth and development.
Political tensions that dominated much of 2019 have carried on into the new decade, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have only exacerbated the situation.
Who is liable for claims for damages in case of any side-effects of the vaccines that are being developed on a fast track?
Life insurers in Indonesia were hit hard by the pandemic, continuing a downward trend that started a few years ago.
Indonesia’s regulator responds to several high-profile payment default cases in the insurance sector, as well as challenges posed by the pandemic.
Indonesia has historically been plagued by natural disasters, and now it has to deal with COVID-19 as well. What does this mean for reinsurers?
Report from a virtual workshop targeting Asian insurance regulators and the industry to respond to urgent training needs on Insurance Capital Standard Version 2.0 and IFRS17.
We take a look at some Asia-Pacific markets that are already planning for life after the pandemic – putting in place the building blocks for the next phase of growth and development of the sector as a whole.
Japan’s insurance industry is mature and experienced, and it has managed to cope well with the challenges created by COVID-19.
What should be the strategy of the Indian industry to survive and grow in the post-COVID-19 era?
With so much emphasis on remote and digital operations, FIS’s Mr Martin Sarjeant discusses some new technology.
The Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation has taken a lead on cyber terrorism research – which it sees as a potential threat to the orderly working of commercial real estate markets in the world’s capital cities.
The frequency of major hurricanes has been increasing at a rate of up to 15% per decade over the last 40 years, a recent scientific study concludes.
Since the revival of the modern games in 1896, the Olympics have had to cope with a range of risks. In 2020, that list expanded when the Tokyo Games was postponed due to COVID-19.
Asia was the first region to confront COVID-19 and its businesses the first to confront unparalleled stress on property assets, supply chains, technology infrastructure and people.
Digital health platforms like Ping An Good Doctor, Tencent’s WeDoctor and Alibaba’s Ali Health have shown the way to quality healthcare access.
Lloyd’s broker New Dawn Risk Group is entering into a partnership with SpecialistRe to strengthen its reach and offering across China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Data from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have revealed that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the net margin of private health insurance funds fall to a low of 2.8% in the year to June 2020, representing a 42%...
According to recent data released by Hong Kong’s Insurance Authority, new office premiums attributable to mainland Chinese visitors contracted by 76.3% for the first half of the year as a whole to HK$6.2bn ($800m).
Revealing insights from insurance industry leaders in Asia.