Archive

  • 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

  • Asian solvency reforms - part 1

    10 May 2013

    Asian insurance markets have been growing fast, in terms of both their size and sophistication, and national supervisors are responding to the international pressure to improve their prudential regulatory regimes. Developments in Hong Kong, China and Singapore are covered in this first part