Japan FSA Plans New Division to Oversee Asset Managers, Insurers August 26, 2025 By Mari Ishibashi and Hideki Suzuki Japan’s financial regulator plans to set up a division to oversee the asset management and insurance industries, as part of...
Markets/Coverages: HDI Global, Parametric Insurer Descartes Launch EQ Cover in Japan July 14, 2025 The Japan branch of Germany-based corporate & specialty insurer HDI Global SE, part of Talanx AG, has received regulatory authorization...
Japan’s Big Non-Life Insurers Plan to Sell Cross Shareholdings May 20, 2025 By Nao Sano Japan’s three major casualty insurers plan to sell a total of about ¥1.37 trillion ($9.5 billion) of cross-held shares in...
Top Japanese Firms Scrap Employment System That Held Women Back April 23, 2025 By Nao Sano Japan’s biggest financial firms are abolishing decades-old employment practices that kept women off the corporate ladder. Nippon Life Insurance Co.,...
Trump Tariff Worries Spur Record Overseas Demand for Japanese Government Bonds April 21, 2025 By Kevin Buckland The longest-dated Japanese government bonds attracted record foreign demand last month as money shifted out of U.S. debt in search...
MS&AD Insurance Group Announces Merger of 2 Non-Life Subsidiaries March 28, 2025 By L.S. Howard MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc. announced it will merge two of its non-life insurance company subsidiaries – Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance...
Aon to Purchase In-House Insurance Agency of Mitsubishi Chemical Group in Japan November 27, 2024 Insurance broker Aon plc announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the in-house insurance agency business of Mitsubishi...
WTW Launches Insurance Brokerage Service in Japan October 29, 2024 WTW announced the expansion of its Corporate Risk & Broking (CRB) business in Japan with the launch of an insurance...
Brookfield Hires Head for Entry Into Japan Reinsurance Market October 29, 2024 Brookfield Wealth Solutions, has entered the reinsurance business in Japan and has hired Tomohide Yokooka, formerly of Barclays Plc, as...
Japan’s Non-Life Insurers Must Cut Cross-Shareholdings to Zero, Industry Group Says September 19, 2024 A trade group representing Japan’s biggest non-life insurers said on Thursday that its member firms should set a clear deadline...