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Former IRDA member Rakesh Joshi made chairman of Bima Sugam India Federation
Rakesh Joshi, chairman, Bima Sugam India Federation Joshi as a...
LIC launches a new product- Nav Jeevan Shree
Life Insurance Corporation has launched a new product Nav Jeevan...
Axis Max Life Insurance reports cyber threat
Indian firms such as Angel One, Niva Bupa Health Insurance and Star Health, and HDFC Life Insurance have reported high-profile security breaches in the past 10 months. Cyber fraud cases in India jumped more than four times in fiscal 2024, causing losses of $20 million...
IRDAI drops plans to tweak existing bancassurance rules for curbing mis-selling by insurers
(L to R)-R Venkatachalam Iyer, MD & CEO Tata AIA, Amit Jhingran, MD & CEO SBI Life, Piyush Pandey, advertising professional, Swaminathan Iyer, member, Life, IRDAI, Kamlesh Rao, MD&CEO,ABSLI, RK Patnaik, MD, LIC, Rushabh Gandhi, MD&CEO India First at an...
China pushes commercial insurers in bid to boost local biotechs
The 3.5 trillion yuan ($486 billion) fund — which covers medical expenses for roughly 95% of China’s 1.4 billion people — will also set up a catalog of innovative drugs that can be reimbursed by commercial insurers, according to the document. The list could lead to...
FSIB panel headed by BS Sharma gets one year extension
For insurance sector appointment, Usha Sangwan, former Managing Director, LIC, A.V. Girija Kumar, former Chairman and Managing Director, Oriental Insurance Company Ltd and Sujay Banarji, former whole-time member (distribution), IRDAI, too have been given extension as...
Generali announces Central Bank as its new joint venture partner in 2 Indian insurance JVs
Generali will be holding a 74% stake while Central Bank of India will be holding up to 26% in the joint venture Jaime Anchústegui, deputy CEO, Insurance, Generali Group, commented: “We are pleased to announce this new chapter for our business in India together with...
LIC CEO Bhanoo seeks govt push for taking insurance education to cities and schools across India
P. Jaipuria, secretary general, Insurance Institute of India, S.N. Bhattacharya, Secretary General, Life Insurance Council, Sat Pal Bhanoo, CEO & MD (In-charge), Life Insurance Corporation, Inderjeet Singh, Secretary General Insurance Council, Kavita...
Finmin asks public sector banks to monetise investments in subsidiaries via listing on bourses
For example, the country's biggest lender State Bank of India may look at listing SBI General Insurance and SBI Payment Services in the future after they scale up their operations.The general insurance arm of SBI has allotted 3,71,693 equity shares of ₹10 each during...
Indian life insurance industry to launch its Rs 450 crore nationwide multimedia campaign on July 2
Swaminathan S Iyer, member, Life, IRDAI, will be in Mumbai along with other CEOs of life insurance industry to unveil the multimedia public awareness Initiative for consumer education and action that will continue for couple of years Mumbai: After the Indian general...
Insurers have to ensure premiums are reasonable and affordable: DFS secretary
M Nagaraju, Secretary, Financial Services Banks need to ensure that there is no mis-selling of insurance to customer and premium are affordable so as to help increase market penetration for such products New Delhi: Observing that high premiums dissuade people from...
Fairfax appoints Amitabh Kant as a senior advisor
Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa's company Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited on Friday said it has appointed former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant as a senior advisor. Go Digit, backed by Fairfax, has a general insurance company, a life insurance company and a...