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  • Rating agencies foresee more sales of participating life products in China

    25 June 2026

    Low-yield environment, regulatory pressure and sustainable design behind the move

  • World's top 50 non-life firms have $430bn gross natcat exposure

    05 May 2026

    S&P Global has run cohort through 1-in-250 and 1-in-500-year stress tests

  • S&P Global predicts alternative capital and captives will help re/insure hyperscale data centres

    14 April 2026

    Centres are too big, and complex, for individual underwriters, report says

  • Athora's reinsurer struck deal for Japanese whole-of-life policies late last year

    24 March 2026

    S&P Global says public AIR deals in Japan "only amount to about 1.4%" of life policy reserves so far

  • Japanese cedants are keeping asset-intensive reinsurance risks under control

    10 March 2026

    S&P says life firms are diversifying counterparties and taking high levels of collateral cover

  • Insurers under strain as Middle East conflict's global dimension can't be ruled out

    03 March 2026

    Marine, trade and political risk insurers to bear underwriting brunt of Middle East conflict

  • Apartment block fire in Hong Kong costs insurers HK$510m so far

    03 February 2026

    Wang Fuk Court inferno killed over 150 inhabitants

  • China's insurance regulator expresses Hong Kong unity following high-rise fires

    03 December 2025

    NFRA tells mainland insurers to prioritise claims from fatal high-rise fire

  • Trade turmoil and populism could hit European insurers hard in 2026, S&P warns

    26 November 2025

    The rating agency says artificial intelligence (AI) enhanced cyber-attacks are also elevated

  • Climate protestors invade S&P's insurance conference in London - UPDATED

    20 November 2025

    Attendees shouted: "We don't care and we didn't come here to see this"