Allianz Group (Allianz) and HSBC Holdings (HSBC Group) today announced that Allianz, through its wholly owned subsidiary Allianz Asia Holding, has agreed to acquire HSBC Life Singapore, subject to regulatory approval.
Sun Life has appointed Mr Lee Sarkin as Vice President, Data and AI, Asia, effective 1 September 2026.
The resumption of hostilities between the US and Iran, formally declared on 13 July 2026 means markets remain under pressure.
While insurers in APAC remain resilient to Nat CAT due to sound risk and capital support, it does not mean that they are not being tested on other fronts.
Allianz Trade has appointed Mr Daf Owen as Regional Surety Business Development Director for APAC, effective 1 August 2026.
Cyber threats across Asia-Pacific are becoming increasingly sophisticated, driving insurers to shift from traditional risk transfer towards more proactive cyber resilience.
Certainty has become the currency that Asia's wealthy families value most, and insurance has stepped into that gap in a way few other tools can match.
In this era of agentic AI risk, organisations have to rethink how they are managing enterprise risk, due to the deployment of AI agents. This mostly comes down to AI agents not being able to tell right from wrong, because "they do not have a conscience" and have a task they are trying to complete, according to Check Point General Manager of AI Security Adam Ely.
AI has moved from enabling attackers to operating attacks, running live intrusions with minimal human direction, compressing the time defenders have to respond and opening new attack surfaces across an enterprise, even as companies adopt technology at a pace that outstrips that of governance controls.
InsurTech Duck Creek Technologies has acquired Send Technology Solutions, an AI-native underwriting orchestration engine serving commercial, specialty and complex risk markets.