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  • South Korea's insurers to assess strategies following K-ICS implementation

    01 September 2023

    Less than half of firms using transitional measures to ease introduction of capital rules

  • Hong Kong insurers reap HK$736m using Covid sales measures

    12 January 2023

    Regulator allowed remote selling as pandemic emerged

  • Hong Kong life sales expected to rebound as China reopens border

    11 January 2023

    Chinese customers represented about 30% of total HK life business before pandemic

  • 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

  • Large foreign-owned life insurers most likely to want Hong Kong RBC early

    10 January 2022

    Insurance Authority has invited long term insurers to apply if they wish to start the rules early

  • C-Ross Phase II to depress Chinese insurers' solvency ratios

    04 January 2022

    Regulations will usher in new risk charges this quarter