Archive

  • APAC Weekly - Sensitive data keeps leaking at Japan's 'porous' non-lifers

    03 September 2024

    Malign hackers blameless in recent spillages of sensitive customer data

  • Strategic stake sell-downs "positive" for credit profile of Japan's major non-lifers

    30 July 2024

    S&P Global Ratings expects the proceeds to be major profit driver for sellers this year

  • APAC Weekly - What Japan's insurers are about to learn, from Robert the Bruce and a spider

    30 July 2024

    In Japan both lifers and general insurers are facing monumental changes from unwinds of strategic investments underway

  • Comment: MS&AD treaded carefully in the minefield of unwinding its cross-holdings

    24 July 2024

    Other Japanese insurers will be wise to follow suit, in describing their 'unwinding' plans

  • Axa gets regulator's nod for Japan mergers, and JPY 7.9trn combined asset pot

    19 March 2024

    Strengthening financial base is one rationale for local M&A

  • Sompo CFO takes hefty pay-cut in wake of Bigmotor scandal

    05 March 2024

    Masahiro Hamada criticised cross-shareholding in outsourcing partner

  • Tokio Marine vows to "eliminate" cross-shareholdings

    29 February 2024

    Rival Sompo also to sell off its problematic strategic equity stakes

  • Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG

    26 February 2024

    Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?

  • Chart of the Week - Sumitomo Life's yen for outsourcing, and plans for more of it, in the future

    26 January 2024

    The Japanese lifer has fresh independent asset managers in its sights

  • Comment - Is the UK still a 'benchmark issuer' of green bonds?

    01 March 2023

    Net-zero investors may dream of all investments being 'green' - but for now it remains only a dream