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.
Nine in ten executives feel inadequately protected as Munich Re warns agentic AI will amplify attack frequency as the boundary between state-sponsored and criminal threat actors continues to blur.
The modest Rajasthan demand adds to a growing GST dispute position for ICICI Prudential Life, which faces total exposure of 9.84bn rupees following February's dismissed appeal.
Indian insurers continue to face escalating tax scrutiny as Go Digit becomes the latest to receive a sizeable demand order, prompting plans for an appeal.
The individual agent channel, which remains the primary driver of value creation, accounted for 85.9% of total VNB in 2025, contributing 39.3bn yuan, up 25.5% year on year.
The order is the largest in a series of income tax demands hitting India's life insurers, as the tax authority challenges the sector's treatment of reserves, fund losses, and exemption claims.
