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Allianz Trade extends geographical footprint to new location Vietnam
Despite potentially facing higher US tariffs than its ASEAN peers,...
Reimagining Insurance:AI set to unlock next $4 billion profit opportunity in India
India’s Insurtech ecosystem is at a sizeable scale, with cumulative...
BAGIC net rises 3% to Rs 281 cr in Q3
Tapan Singhel , MD & CEO, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance The private sector insurer’s combined ratio increased to 102.9 per cent in 03 FY24 from 100.3 per cent in 03 FY23.Excluding the NATCAT impact. combined ratio for 03 FY24 stood at 99.5 per cent.BAGIC’s...
Bajaj Finserv acquires Vidal Health Insurance TPA
Vidal Health Insurance TPA Pvt Ltd (VHITPA), services premium of over Rs 5,000 crore, covering 130 million lives. The acquisition now enables Bajaj Finserv Health, a subsidiary of Bajaj Finserv of to offer OPD, wellness, as well as hospitalization benefits to...
Shriram General Insurance net up 51% to Rs117 crore in Q3
Anil Aggarwal, MD & CEO, Shriram General Insurance Company said, “This year, we had a focus shift towards increasing the gross written premium. The company is entering into newer areas like EV (electric vehicles) insurance and developing combo insurance plans. It...
HDI Global adopts generative AI with proprietary GPT system
"With HDI-GPT we are for the first time looking to generative AI for the transformation of core insurance processes and for workflow optimisation," Dr Thomas Kuhnt, Chief Operating Officer at HDI Global SE Hannover: Creating added value through artificial intelligence...
Toyota warns 50,000 vehicle owners to stop driving, get immediate repairs
More than 30 deaths worldwide, including 26 U.S. deaths, and hundreds of injuries in various automakers' vehicles since 2009 are linked to Takata air bag inflators that can explode, unleashing metal shrapnel inside cars and trucks Washington: Toyota Motor said on...
Cold snap helps India’s wheat crop but warm weather forecasts pose risk
Although India's fertile plains have seen a chilly winter, a lack of snowfall in the mountainous regions has raised concerns of a sudden, abrupt rise in temperatures. Both minimum and maximum temperatures in northern and north-western states have started to rise, an...
Ayushman Bharat: 6.2 hospital admissions with 30.3 cr cards issued till Jan 17
National health accounts data also demonstrates a consistent decline in out-of-pocket health expenditure, from 62.6 per cent of total health expenditure (the) in FY15 to 47.1 per cent of the in FY20 New Delhi: The Finance Ministry on Monday said that the Central...
Howden launches first-of-its-kind carbon capture and storage insurance facility
The insurance facility, designed by Howden and led by SCOR’s syndicate at Lloyd’s, provides cover for environmental damage and loss of revenue arising from the sudden or gradual leakage of CO2 from CCS projects into the air, land and water London: Howden today...
Climate change figures prominently in Pakistan political parties’ manifestos
Ranked as the 5th most vulnerable country to climate change according to the Global Climate Risk Index, a UN report has warned that Pakistan will experience increasingly severe extreme weather events. The total damage from the devastating floods in 2022 that hit 33...
Howden appoints Mike Baker as Chief Client Officer in Asia
Howden today announced the appointment of Mike Baker as Chief Client Officer in Howden Asia with immediate effect.Baker will be based in Singapore and will report to Goh Chye Huat, CEO, Howden Asia. Baker’s role is to further develop with complex risk requirements...