Archive

• Moody's welcomes extra scrutiny by Japan's watchdogs of insurers' private credit

  11 November 2024

  Lifers have liberated capital for re-use, from lowering interest rate risk

• MS&AD, Sompo and Tokio Marine untangle JPY 317bn of strategic equities in June quarter

  15 August 2024

  Solvency levels of groups rose despite the sell-downs

• Japan's lifers hold nearly 10% of investments in local shares, FSA reveals

  08 July 2024

  Regulator published annual scorecard for year to March, last week

• APAC weekly - Japanese insurers in full 'sorry mode', including for past investments

  02 July 2024

  From strategic investments to staff being arrested, it seems Japan's insurers can't stop apologising

• Investment strength helps Japan's largest insurers improve profits and solvency in 2024

  18 June 2024

  But FX hedging costs rose nonetheless, FSA finds

• Japan's FSA updates market on progress towards forthcoming solvency regime

  31 May 2024

  Field-testing results from 2023 were also published today

• IMF recommends more thorough review of Japanese insurers' asset risk by FSA

  27 May 2024

  In latest Assessment of Observance on Insurance Core Principles report

• Japanese watchdog gets 21 takers for ESG data code of conduct

  22 January 2024

  Code's founding technical committee chaired by professor Tetsuo Kitagawa of Aoyama Gakuin University

• Sovereign green bonds perhaps no longer game changer, Japanese FSA's Ikeda says

  28 February 2023

  APAC sovereign green bond issuance revealed

• Regulator rejects Gjensidige's amendments to market risk calculation

  04 February 2020

  Amendments were expected to reduce required capital by NOK 500m