All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 20 2018 // Technical and supply-chain issues with equipment made by Chinese firm Huawei have exposed Britain’s telecom networks to new security risks, a government report said on Thursday.The assessment, made in a report signed...
Jul 19 2018 // China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co. Ltd. is looking to offload overseas properties worth about $10 billion to shore up its balance sheet as part of a government-backed rescue, three people with knowledge of the matter...
Jul 16 2018 // Anbang Insurance Group Co. is weighing a sale of its Hexie Health Insurance Co. unit as the troubled Chinese firm reviews its assets for possible divestment, according to people familiar with the matter.The insurer is in...
Jul 16 2018 // Global insurance premiums continued to rise in 2017 with emerging markets leading the way, according to a study published by Swiss Re Institute’s sigma, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary of market...
Jul 10 2018 // Anbang Insurance Group Co. is exploring a sale of Belgian insurer Fidea, people with knowledge of the matter said, in what would be the troubled Chinese insurer’s first European divestment since it was seized by the...
Jul 6 2018 // Global insurance premiums continued to rise in 2017 with emerging markets leading the way, according to a study published by Swiss Re Institute’s sigma, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary of market...
Jun 29 2018 // China is slowly following through on pledges to open up to foreigners, as an impending trade war with the U.S. focuses attention on Beijing’s grip over doing business in the world’s second-largest economy.On...
Jun 29 2018 // In the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, an ambulance speeds through traffic on a wave of green lights, helped along by an artificial intelligence (AI) system and big data.The system, which involves sending information to...
Jun 28 2018 // Chinese President Xi Jinping wants women to have more babies. That’s proving to be a costly goal.After government-run insurance funds paying for maternity leaves suffered revenue shortfalls for the first time,...
Jun 22 2018 // Canada has an environmental message for Donald Trump: you can’t stop the global campaign against climate change and you will hurt the U.S. by abandoning the battle.Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister...
Jun 11 2018 // A U.S. panel that reviews foreign investments for potential national security threats has approved China Oceanwide Holdings Group’s purchase of insurer Genworth Financial, the two companies said on Saturday.The...
May 31 2018 // The former chairman of China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co., Wu Xiaohui, has lodged an appeal against his conviction for fraud and embezzlement that led to a sentence of 18 years in prison, his lawyers said.While not...
May 30 2018 // China has made progress on reforms but should allow market forces to play a more decisive role and accelerate its opening up to the rest of the world, the International Monetary Fund said.While credit growth has slowed, it...
May 29 2018 // Ant Financial Services Group, operator of China’s biggest online payment platform by market share, Alipay, has closed its latest funding round having raised $10 billion from a clutch of global and local investors,...
May 24 2018 // American International Group announced that Lisa Sun will join the company as chief executive officer of AIG Insurance Company China.Sun joins AIG from Mercer, where most recently she was CEO of Mercer’s Hong Kong...
May 23 2018 // Willis Towers Watson reports that China’s Banking Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) earlier this month approved Willis Insurance Brokers to be the first fully licensed foreign broker to transact all insurance...
May 21 2018 // China’s financial services market should be opened further to foreign competition, but liberalization of cross-border capital flows should be done more cautiously, an adviser to China’s central bank said at a...
May 16 2018 // The risk of cyber attack, once overhyped, now threatens businesses’ very existence. Its severity varies significantly with geography: For example, inherent cyber risk has climbed in France over the past year while...
May 15 2018 // Cars that drive themselves are finding the clearest paths to showrooms in the U.K., Germany, South Korea and Singapore, where governments have enacted legislation allowing autonomous vehicles to be tested on public roads....
May 13 2018 // Chinese insurers are channeling funds through shadow lenders to real estate and local government infrastructure projects in a bid to boost returns, six insurance and trust sources told Reuters.The practice undermines...