All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 9 2008 // Zurich Financial Services Group announced that it has signed an agreement with Nan Kai University’s Department of Risk Management and Insurance (DRMI), based in Tianjin City, to launch a research project on the...
Apr 4 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘BBB-‘ counterparty credit rating on Argonaut Group Inc. (AGI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Argo Group International Holdings Ltd. and its...
Apr 4 2008 // Influential Chinese companies that want to avoid competition are the biggest threat to more economic reform in China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday.Paulson’s comment echoed complaints by foreign...
Apr 3 2008 // Swiss Re announced it has received approval to establish a consulting company in China to provide comprehensive third party administrator (TPA) and related consulting services to hospitals, insurers, policyholders and...
Apr 1 2008 // Shards of broken glass outside the basement window of 31 Vine Street (Brockton, Mass.) hint at the destruction inside the three-story home.Thieves smashed the window to break in and then gutted the property for its copper...
Mar 31 2008 // China’s Ping An Insurance Co Ltd. wants to raise its stake in Fortis to 7 percent, the Belgian-Dutch financial group’s annual report showed on Monday.China’s second largest life insurer recently lifted...
Mar 31 2008 // The ACE Group of Companies announced that Huatai Insurance Company of China Limited, an ACE Group strategic partner, has received approval from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to become one of the first...
Mar 28 2008 // Up to 190 nations will start work on a new U.N. climate treaty in Bangkok on Monday, in a test of how far the world has progressed after years of deadlock highlighted by a U.S. outburst about a duck in 2005.“If it...
Mar 27 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” of the Hong Kong-based China International Reinsurance Company Limited (CIRe) with a...
Mar 20 2008 // China’s Ping An Insurance Co Ltd. deepened its ties with Belgian-Dutch financial group Fortis on Wednesday by buying half its asset management business for €2.15 billion ($3.4 billion).Ping An, China’s second...
Mar 14 2008 // Rich nations must come up with billions in new money to help poor countries fight global warming and not just repackage development aid to score diplomatic points, environmentalists at a meeting of top polluters said on...
Mar 6 2008 // The Chinese premier said this week that Beijing is taking steps to ensure that its product safety regulations meet international standards, signalling another phase in China’s wide-ranging campaign to repair its...
Mar 6 2008 // CNinsure Inc. remains in an acquisitive mode. The Chinese agent/broker announced that it has acquired majority interests in Shenzhen Huameng Insurance Brokerage Co., Ltd. and Fuzhou Guoxin Insurance Agency Co., Ltd.The...
Mar 5 2008 // Willis Group Holdings announced that it has won a two-year contract as the insurance consultant for the operational assets of “the largest hydropower project in the world,” – China’s Three Gorges...
Mar 4 2008 // China said on Tuesday, March 4, that it will respond through World Trade Organization channels to a case brought by the European Union and the United States over what they regard as unfair treatment of financial...
Mar 4 2008 // Chinese independent broker CNinsure Inc. announced the acquisition of a 60 percent stake in Liaoning Gena Insurance Agency Co., Ltd., thereby extending its market presence to Liaoning Province in northeast China. Earlier...
Feb 29 2008 // When China’s leadership reshuffle is finalised during the annual parliament session that starts next week, the man tipped to become the country’s leading financial official will face high expectations.Bankers...
Feb 27 2008 // China life insurer Ping An Insurance, under pressure from regulators, indicated it might scale back or postpone a massive $17 billion share issue, sending its shares sharply higher on Tuesday.The China Securities...
Feb 26 2008 // China’s CNinsure Inc. has announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. The bulletin noted that the earnings announcement “contains translations of...
Feb 19 2008 // Marsh got a chance to deliver some good news, when the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) ranked it number one out of China’s top 20 intermediaries based on annual invoiced revenue.The survey published in...