Archive

  • Athene to enter reinsurance transaction with newly listed Sony Life

    29 September 2025

    Retrocedes mortality risk to Swiss Re

  • Service provider ransomware attack puts Japan's insurers on high alert

    14 July 2025
  • Japan insurer motor fraud investigations now stretch back nine years

    25 November 2024

    Policyholders still trust insurers despite widespread claims fraud

  • Japan's non-life insurers braced for claims from typhoon Shanshan

    02 September 2024

    Aon predicts "hundreds of millions" of dollars in insured and economic losses

  • Speed becomes vital in cyber attack responses

    01 October 2015

    In part 2 of this feature on cyber attack and the EU's data breach law, Asa Gibson reports on how insurers are responding to the threat

  • S&P cuts rating of ten Japanese insurers

    17 September 2015

    Knock-on effect of Japan's sovereign rating downgrade

  • The threat from cyber: Are insurers heading for a meltdown?

    05 January 2015

    The recent establishment of a dedicated cyber insurance agency in London by former US homeland security secretary Tom Ridge demonstrates its growing popularity. But as the prevalence of recent high-profile hacking incidents demonstrates, this is not a class without its dangers, as Marcus Alcock investigates

  • Risk of Asian flood losses widespread says Guy Carpenter

    30 October 2014

    Population concentration in flood-prone areas increasing risk