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- June 12 2025
SBI General Insurance appoints Mohd Arif Khan as deputy CEO
Khan joins the carrier from the State Bank of India, where he was most recently general manager.
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- June 12 2025
Brett Kenyon joins construction team at Gallagher-owned specialist MGA Pen Underwriting
Kenyon joins the Australian underwriting agency as a senior underwriter from Sura Engineering.
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- June 12 2025
QBE Asia first carrier to join IFC’s resilience program to close APAC protection gap
International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Building Resilience Index (BRI) program focuses on hazard mapping and a resilience assessment framework and evaluates climate-related risks for real-estate projects and portfolios.
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- June 12 2025
John Philipsz named MD and ANZ head at Howden Re, succeeds Stuart Beatty
Beatty is stepping back having held the role of head of APAC for over five years, but he will remain at Howden Re, focusing on its MGA.
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- June 12 2025
Competition regulator greenlights Allianz Australia’s RAAI acquisition
ACCC found that other suppliers will continue to compete with, and constrain, a merged Allianz and RAAI after the acquisition.
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- June 11 2025
South Korea slashes recommended CAR for insurers to 130%: report
Financial Services Commission will remove requirements related to net loss and insurance operating loss from the conditions for reversing emergency risk reserves.
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- June 11 2025
Samsung Fire & Marine to buy additional 21% stake in Canopius
Transaction will increase the Korean insurer's total share to 40%.
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- June 11 2025
Kiwi insurer Tower confirms Paul Johnston as CEO
Johnston, who has been interim CEO since February, will start in the new role from Wednesday.
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- June 11 2025
Australia’s NTI names Janelle Greene as CEO
Greene, currently NTI’s chief customer officer, will succeed veteran Tony Clark, who has served as CEO for 18 years.
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- June 11 2025
Crawford names Keira Blair as national strata operations manager for Australia
Gold Coast-based Blair joins the loss adjuster from strata specialist MGA Longitude Insurance where she was manager for large loss and complex claims.
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- June 11 2025
‘No hope of recovery’: MSC Elsa 3 salvage efforts begin in India, but total loss expected
NorthStandard is understood to be the claims leader for the Liberian-flagged container ship that sank last month off the coast of India.
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- June 10 2025
Jon Holmes to succeed Steve Randall as CEO of Shipowners’ Club Singapore branch
Randall is set to retire after 48 years of service, while Jeremy Slater will assume the role of underwriting director for the P&I Club's Singapore branch.
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- June 10 2025
Allianz Commercial appoints Hydor as MGA for APAC marine liability insurance
Hydor will quote and bind policies for all marine liability products, including property, handling equipment, hull and machinery, port craft and service boats.
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- June 10 2025
Swiss Re promotes Giv Kahrom to head of cyber for regional markets
Singapore-based Kahrom will oversee cyber underwriting and business development in all global markets, excluding the US and the UK.
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- June 10 2025
India’s GIC Re proposes ‘parametric insurance’ umbrella: report
Country’s largest reinsurer is in talks with the central government to offer countrywide parametric cover.
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- June 10 2025
Howden Australia lands AIG veteran Grant Sheppard as head of marine and logistics
Sydney-based Sheppard spent 23 years at the insurer, most recently as head of marine for Australasia.
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- June 10 2025
Exclusive: RiskPoint hires AIG’s George Blackborow as head of W&I in Asia
Blackborow will join the transactional risk team in Singapore to strengthen MGA's regional offering, APAC MD Maria Steeples exclusively confirmed to IAN.
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- June 10 2025
BHSI Australia expands into life science, biotech, pharmaceutical management liability
The new policy, designed for the research and development ecosystem, covers directors and officers, scientific and medical advisory boards and private capital raisings and is not excluded in the event of insolvency.
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- June 10 2025
Malpractice claims set pulses racing for APAC’s physicians, but influx of capacity points to clean bill of health
Medical malpractice insurance is becoming more important as patients have greater understanding of their legal rights, while medical inflation and increasing awards for damages make claim costs significantly larger.
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- June 10 2025
Exclusive: Markel appoints Axa’s Chelsea Jiang as greater China CEO
Jiang was most recently the chief technical and innovation officer for general insurance in greater China at Axa Hong Kong and Macau.
