Insurance
China clamps down on medical insurance fraud
                                                                                 
                    
                    
  Fraudsters may face a suspension of reimbursement for up to a year.
                
                                
            China clamps down on medical insurance fraud
                                                                                                                 
                            
                            
  Fraudsters may face a suspension of reimbursement for up to a year.
                        
                                                
                        
    
                    Indian insurers' lagging underwriting could hit long-term profits: report
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Adequate earnings have not accompanied market growth.
                    
                                        
                    
                Insurance and the Growing Demand for Hyper Personalisation
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Kenneth Koh is the Global Principal and Director of Insurance, Financial Services Practice, SAS Institute.
                    
                                        
                    
                Indian insurers can now invest in REITs, infrastructure trusts
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  This will boost the overall portfolio yield held by these firms.
                    
                                        
                    
                Sun Life is 2020's top Philippine life insurer
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  It netted a $175m net income and $811m premium income.
                    
                                        
                    
                Ping An boosts green activities in support of China's carbon goal
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  It proposes performance targets for green finance and measures for green growth.
                    
                                        
                    
                AXA Hong Kong and Macau joins Green Monday ESG Coalition
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  It is the first insurer to join the coalition.
                    
                                        
                    
                New specialty businesses to sustain Japan P&C insurers' capital
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Growth of specialty products will support underwriting.
                    
                                        
                    
                China's Leapstack seeks partnership with South Korean insurers
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Leapstack will provide big data AI solutions to Korean commercial insurers.
                    
                                        
                    
                India's LIC nets $24.4b in FY2021 new premiums
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Its individual life business posted a first-year premium income of $7.5m.
                    
                                        
                    
                Thai life premiums to hit $22.8b in 2025
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Whole life plans drive the sector, accounting for 72% of premiums in 2020.
                    
                                        
                    
                HSBC Life names new global head of customer proposition
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  HSBC Life has appointed Ying Teoh as global head of customer proposition effective 12 April.
                    
                                        
                    
                Munich Re Syndicate launches Labuan retakaful window
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Labuan FSA has approved the window facility to write sharia-compliant risks.
                    
                                        
                    
                Retained earnings, foundation funds buoy Nippon Life's capital
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  But its capital position is vulnerable to a slump in the Japan stock market.
                    
                                        
                    
                Philippine senator seeks to include HMOs in insurance code
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  He also wants the Insurance Commission to be placed under the central bank.
                    
                                        
                    
                Fraught capital markets put Chinese life insurers on edge
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Credit exposure has become more vulnerable to rising defaults.
                    
                                        
                    
                Philippine non-life insurers must apply new catastrophe rates by April 2022
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  The cession of facility rates will be based on a maximum limit per risk.
                    
                                        
                    
                 
            	         
                	         
                	         
                	         
                	         
                	         
                	         
                	         
                	         
                	         
                	         
                	         
                	         
						 
				 
								 
								 
								 
																					
											
																			 
																					
											
																			 
																					
											
																			 
																					
											
																			 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                