Update: List of Insurers Exiting Climate Group Grows, Including Lloyd’s, Tokio Marine May 30, 2023 By Aaron Clark, Nao Sano and Alastair Marsh The list of firms walking out of the Net Zero Insurance Alliance continued to grow this week, adding to an...
Japan’s Sompo to Focus on Integration After Spree of Overseas Acquisitions April 26, 2023 By Makiko Yamazaki and Ritsuko Shimizu Sompo Holdings Inc. will place more focus on integrating domestic and overseas operations for further growth after a spell of...
Japan’s LNG Buyers Assess How Insurance Halt Will Affect Supplies December 27, 2022 By Shoko Oda and Tsuyoshi Inajima Japan’s buyers of Russian liquefied natural gas are assessing how imminent changes to shipping insurance — triggered by the ongoing...
Japanese Insurers Sell Heatstroke Coverage as Temperatures Soar to Record Levels July 26, 2022 By Kaori Kohyama As temperatures soar to unprecedented levels from Europe to Asia this summer, some Japanese insurance companies have begun selling policies...
Japanese Insurers Struggle with Climate Change Cost Estimates June 25, 2021 By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO – As the world tries to price the cost of climate change, Japan’s second largest non-life insurer MS&AD foresees...
Explaining Climate Change and Financial Disclosure for Insurers June 25, 2021 TOKYO – Japanese financial institutions are struggling to put a price tag on the cost of climate change, an effort...
Japan’s Largest Insurers Take Another Hit from Typhoon Losses November 19, 2019 By Takahiko Wada A string of powerful typhoons that struck Japan has left scars on the country’s non-life insurers, with industry giants likely...
Data Firm Palantir’s Partnership with Japan’s Sompo Insurance Targets Health, Cyber November 18, 2019 By Jane Lanhee Lee and Sam Nussey Silicon Valley data analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc. has established a joint venture with Japanese insurance holding company Sompo Holdings...
Typhoon Hagibis Likely to Cause Earnings Event for Japan’s Insurers: Fitch October 29, 2019 Typhoon Hagibis is likely to be an earnings event for Japan’s three main non-life insurance groups, MS&AD Insurance Groups Holdings,...
Japan Insurers Eye China Acquisitions in Continuation of Overseas Deal Spree February 4, 2019 By Sumeet Chatterjee and Taiga Uranaka Japanese insurance companies have spent more than $50 billion on acquisitions over the past five years to become the world’s...