Aaron got his first byline covering a camel race in Qatar and two decades later he still doesn’t know which ungulate won. He has worked as a journalist and editor across finance, regulation, and insurance publications and is currently a Contributing Editor at (Re)in Asia.
The use of a mixture of market and book values for Japan’s current accounting and solvency regulatory regimes could put short terms strain on insurers’ balance sheets.
The IMO has set out ambitious targets for decarbonising the shipping industry but a lack of experience data means insurance pricing is likely to be reactive instead of proactive.
There is a wide variation in how cyber insurers deal with non-malicious outages like CrowdStrike and as a result making loss estimates for the software failure is difficult.
Insurers including QBE, Tokio Marine, and Prudential will be subject to the new IAIS standard which will be applied in a two stage process starting in 2026.
