Archive

• China Taiping reinsurer launches cat bond in Hong Kong

  02 January 2025

  Bond covers two natcat risks in US and China, respectively

• Mainland life business plunges 84% in Hong Kong's pandemic-plagued 2021

  23 February 2022

  Insurers seek alternative distribution routes as Omicron wave hits

• AIA warns Hong Kong must remain open to world, not just to mainland

  08 December 2021

  Hong Kong "must be at table" as Chinese insurance develops, underwriters caution

• HKFI's Selina Lau: Covid-19 is a golden opportunity to educate the public

  26 March 2020

  Selina Lau's first month as chief executive of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers has been nothing if not busy. From the coronavirus to the opportunities of the Greater Bay Area initiative, while handling IFRS 17 and forthcoming risk-based capital rules, there is never a dull moment, she tells David Walker

• Hong Kong insurers display social conscience amid coronavirus crisis

  18 March 2020

  Experience of Sars has helped industry respond to Covid-19, says trade body head

• Hong Kong insurance union appoints chief executive

  31 January 2020

  Selina Lau will become chief executive after joining HKFI in 1997

• Hong Kong insurers urge delay in IFRS 17 to 2023

  03 December 2019

  Hong Kong Federation of Insurers reveals it wrote to accounting body

• Hong Kong approaches transition to risk-based capital

  12 September 2019

  Hong Kong’s long-awaited risk-based capital (RBC) regime is beginning to take shape ahead of its planned implementation in 2022. Paul Walsh reports on the latest developments

• Hong Kong leaves self-regulatory insurance regime behind

  16 April 2019

  The Insurance Authority is making progress on a new regulatory and licensing regime

• Hong Kong passes law to establish insurance regulator

  13 July 2015

  IIA will supervise intermediaries as well as insurers