Archive

• China proposes folding CBIRC into new body

  09 March 2023

  New regulator would sit directly below state council

• C-Ross Phase II: risk-based capital with social characteristics

  15 April 2022

  The overhaul of China's prudential rules has introduced adjustments that allow regulatory influence over how insurers underwrite and invest - with the objective of producing a social good, as David Walker reports

• Reports: former China insurance regulator jailed for 11 years

  17 June 2020

  Xiang Junbo reportedly accepted his guilt

• Chinese regulator revises rules on life insurance actuarial reporting

  14 June 2018

  CBRIC also sets expectations of hiring chief actuaries

• Chinese authorities take over Anbang for at least 12 months

  23 February 2018

  Authorities will conduct group restructuring and vow to protect customers

• Chinese regulator proposes tradeable life policies

  11 January 2018

  Viatical settlement to be trialled in China

• C-Ross creates challenges for non-life reinsurers in China

  18 December 2017

  AM Best also warns of competition from Hong Kong firms

• Chinese regulator orders insurers to appoint chief actuaries - reports

  01 December 2017

  Non-life and reinsurers in China were previously not obligated to employ a chief actuary

• Chinese regulator's spotlight on investment products hits first-half sales

  18 August 2017

  Industry analysts expect no pick-up in sales of contentious offering

• AIA bemoans workload of implementing IFRS 17

  28 July 2017

  Hong Kong-based insurer emphasises importance of regulatory equivalence with China