The head of a pin
General
Takaful should focus on economic growth and innovation
Next stop: Digital takaful
Enforcing enhanced data privacy
View from India: Will the enhanced foreign investment limit catalyse the industry?
Life & health
Behavioural economics and closing Asia's protection gap
Preparing for a 'green' future in insurance
Australia
Mental health issues and the advice gap
A year of recovery
Risk-transfer expertise: Pandemic, terrorism, Nat CAT
Strong demand for reinsurance to persist
Regulation: A game in two halves
The perfect skillsets for imperfect datasets
Continued evolution of insurance and InsurTech partnerships
Maintaining momentum in a tough year
The need for threat intelligence
Taiwan regulation: Continued convergence
From waterfall to agile
Hitchhiker's guide to digital transformation
Traditional business remain crucial to growth
Technology gets an upgrade in claims management
National digital currency
Leveraging pet insurance to break into the Chinese market
Climate change risk assessment for the insurance industry
Infographics: Revealing insights from insurance industry leaders in Asia
Asian
China: Market share of foreign-owned insurers inches upwards in 2020
India: IRDAI working group recommends return of index-linked insurance plans
Indonesia: World Bank unit invests $5m in PasarPolis
Singapore: Life sector sees 3% growth in new business premiums in 2020
Risk
Flood exposure and poverty
Corporate risk and resilience in the global economy
Product bites
People on the move
INSURANCE - General
CHINA
OneDegree’s Mr Alex Leung talks about the state of pet insurance in China.
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MARKET PROFILE - Australia
As the world continues to go through a period of great uncertainty, talented actuaries trained in data analytics have become even more valuable to organisations and businesses.
GREEN INSURANCE
Integrating ESG factors into insurance is no longer a choice, but the only option available for an industry that has a fundamental role to play in sustainability.
This year will see a continuation of technological, social and business transformation accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
REGULATION
Taiwan’s insurers will continue their convergence to global standards to enhance their resilience, which will come in the form of adoption of new accounting rules, a new solvency regime and associated changes.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
The need for insurers in Asia to embrace digital transformation in order to stay competitive is becoming ever more acute.
Successful digital transformation in insurance does not happen by accident.
NOTEBOOK
The Geneva Association offers an holistic decision-making framework and considerations for both sides of the balance sheet.
Anyone who has walked along the banks of the Yangon River in Myanmar’s biggest city cannot fail to have been impressed by the level of industry amongst the people. Everyone seems to be doing something important, even if they are not doing...
We caught up with CIBAFI secretary general Dr Abdelilah Belatik to discuss global developments in takaful.
Brunei is one of the smaller markets in Asia Pacific, but the insurance and takaful sector has adopted the use of technology in a serious way.
The latest data privacy and breach reporting regulations in Singapore will have a positive effect on the demand for cyber insurance.
Australia’s life insurance industry has also been challenged by the growth in mental health conditions and claims.
Despite market uncertainty, insurers continue to maintain their focus on ensuring that customers could weather the pandemic’s financial impact.
How many times can we use the word unprecedented before it loses its meaning? The volatile and erratic nature of today’s weather patterns continue to drive home the ‘Inconvenient Truth’ that we were warned about by Al Gore in 2006.
Singapore’s only insurance co-operative is leveraging technology to make insurance readily available and customisable.
Speakers at the Virtual Asia Insurance Claims Summit in February spoke of the many challenges facing insurers and how technology will be the game changer for insurance claims management in the future.
With the development of national digital currencies gathering pace, nations may soon have official and regulated alternatives to cryptocurrencies. This could also offer an opportunity to digital insurers to innovate.
Every week, Asia Insurance Review surveys its readership to glean insights into the big issues that confront leading executives in insurance and reinsurance in the region. The results of our surveys are published in the form of a series of...
Foreign-owned insurance companies in China posted an aggregate premium income of CNY352.4bn ($54.6bn) in 2020, representing a market share of 7.79%. This was an increase of 0.62% over 2019 and comes in light of China’ liberalisation policy....
A working group appointed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has recommended the re-introduction of index-linked insurance products (ILIPs), saying in its report that such an alternative category of products is...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a part of the World Bank Group that focuses on accelerating financial inclusion and literacy in various developing countries, has officially become an investor in PasarPolis, according to a statement...