All the headlines from our Asia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 21 2003 // The Netherlands ING Groep N.V. announced that it has appointed Jacques Kemp as chief executive for the Asia-Pacific region, succeeding Phil Shirriff who is retiring from the post at the end of March. “Kemp joined the...
Nov 26 2002 // AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR), one of the leading providers in catastrophe modeling and weather risk management, announced the release of new typhoon and earthquake models for the Asia-Pacific region.“The new...
Oct 24 2002 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. announced that it has completed the integration of the Singapore branches of its subsidiaries XL Re Ltd. and Le Mans Re into a single branch to be headed by Scott Ryrie, General Manager...
Apr 26 2002 // The Chubb Group announced that it has opened a new office in Melbourne, Australia, “to further support the growing demand for political risk insurance in the Asia/Pacific region.”The office is the third...
Feb 20 2002 // Inreon, the online reinsurance trading platform, has expanded into the Asian market with the opening ofa new office in Hong Kong. It hopes to have its Internet platform ready to go in time for renewals on April 1. “A...
Feb 19 2002 // CGNU, the U.K.’s largest insurance company, continued its planned exit from the European p/c market and its expansion in Asia with the announcement that it would sell its Portuguese property insurance business to...
Oct 8 2001 // While most Asian National Flag carriers have been able to obtain government assistance to meet new insurance demands for war and terrorist risk cover, smaller airlines are still seeking solutions, heightened by increased...
Aug 29 2001 // The latest “sigma” report from Swiss Re, “Insurance markets in Asia: sanguine outlook despite short-term uncertainties,” outlines current and future trends in Asia’s $600 billion insurance...
Apr 25 2001 // Britain’s Prudential plc will further expand its operations in Asia with the acquisition of Allstate’s majority holdings in two life insurance companies in The Philippines and Indonesia. Allstate said it was...
Apr 6 2001 // Zurich North America, the U.S. subsidiary of the Anglo-Swiss Zurich Financial Services Group, announced that it was expanding the role of “its Zurich Emerging Markets Solutions group’s political risk and credit...
Apr 3 2001 // Three Hong Kong based subsidiaries of HIH Australia have been placed under independent administration by the local government, following a preliminary accounting which revealed that their assets included a large portion of...
Mar 22 2001 // Charlotte N.C-based Transamerica Reinsurance, a division of the Transamerica Group, which is a subsidiary of Holland’s AEGON Insurance Group, announced that it had officially opened its new Head Office for Asia in...
Mar 6 2001 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. lent its cooperation in an investigation, conducted by the Westchester district attorney’s office, the Westchester County Dept. of Public Safety, the New York State Police and the New...
May 8 2000 // Financial services giant Citigroup unveiled a partnership with Taiwan’s Fubon Group on Saturday that will be essential to both entities expansion plans in Asia. Citigroup will invest $750 million to acquire 15...