Vipal Durge is Features Editor at (Re)in Asia, covering the deals and corporate strategy reshaping Asia Pacific insurance. Areas of specialty include M&A and market consolidation, insurer results and underwriting performance, and regulatory decisions across Australia, Japan, India and Southeast Asia.
The fundraise proposal from one of India's largest private life insurers comes ahead of full-year results, with the insurer's chief executive pointing to sustained momentum heading into FY2027.
Despite the weaker Asia performance, the reinsurer is eyeing expansion into China, India, and Southeast Asia under its new VIGRe28 strategy, as it prepares to open a Singapore office.
Moody's stable outlook for China's P&C insurance sector reflects an industry where underwriting discipline is gaining ground, amid growing asset risk and accelerating market concentration.
The development highlights ongoing regulatory efforts to address cost pressures and execution challenges in India’s rapidly growing private health insurance market.
ICICI Prudential Life's appeal against a Maharashtra GST demand for FY2019 has yielded only partial relief, as the insurer's cumulative tax disputes continue to grow.
