Archive

  • KGI Life and Mercuries Life adopt new FX reporting freedoms

    09 February 2026

    Taiwan's regulator recently announced reporting flexibilities

  • Shin Kong Life adopts new FX valuation freedoms in Taiwan

    02 February 2026

    FSC extended new valuation option after lifers' FX woes last May

  • APAC Weekly - Taiwan's lifers given 'breathing room' in ratings watches by Fitch

    16 December 2025

    Retraction of negative ratings watches might not, per se, have been the main cause for sector's relief

  • APAC Weekly - Taiwanese insurers' seemingly insatiable appetite for 'alts'

    25 November 2025

    FX market volatility in May seems not to have dented some CIOs' hunger much

  • Taiwan dollar's leap in May sent lifers' FX reserves crashing by 89%

    20 October 2025

    Local currency jumped 8% in just two days that month against the Greenback

  • FX reserve bolstering worth NT$ 188bn continues at Taiwan's lifers

    14 July 2025

    High volatility hit the Taiwan/US dollar cross in May

  • Taiwanese life firms win solvency leeway to use TW-ICS transitionals

    24 June 2025

    Taiwan's regulator says it will consider applicants' Q3 solvency levels

  • Fitch cites Taiwan FX hedging costs for TransGlobe Life's negative rating watch

    13 June 2025

    TGL's mismatch-hedging to "come under pressure" after "surge in hedging costs," Fitch predicts

  • Mayday! FX volatility hits Taiwan's lifers but no crash landings are forecast

    04 June 2025

    When the Taiwan/US FX rate leaped 8% in two days last month, the same might well have happened to the heartrate of CIOs at life insurers, as David Walker examines

  • Taiwan's lifers bolster capital and FX reserves after market volatility

    03 June 2025

    Country's dollar jumped 8% against greenback in two days last month