extreme weather forces shift in agri policies to protect APAC’s vulnerable crops

Even as Trump’s tariffs are halted by US court ruling, trade credit insurers had avoided a ‘knee-jerk reaction’

Ian Leslie, managing director and UK head of trade credit at Marsh Specialty, says insurers had been taking a wait-and-see approach even before a federal court dealt a major blow to the new US administration.

With delays becoming the new norm for Asia’s cargo market, intensifying risk aggregation threatens capacity

Data shows port congestion issues have significantly worsened, forcing underwriters to rethink their strategies.

With Australia, India and China inundated by record floods, voices swell to rewrite the nat cat lexicon

Floods in Australia have been widely described as a one-in-500-year event, but such categorisations are now being seen as harmful to the insurance industry.

Time to bite the bullet on IFRS 17? Implementation issues still abound in Asia

Despite being formally introduced in several countries in 2023, a number of players in the Asian market continue to struggle with the adoption of new reporting standards, Aon’s managing director and APAC head of finance consulting David Mbatha says.