by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 15, 2025 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Facing a shrinking domestic market and years of rock-bottom interest rates, Japan’s biggest banks have for years sought out overseas targets. TOKYO:Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is in final talks to acquire a 20% stake in Indian non-bank financial...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 25, 2025 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Intermediaries, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
The Japanese general insurance market is projected to grow from JPY11.7 trillion (US$81.1 billion) in 2024 to JPY12.7 trillion (US$93.9 billion) by 2028, at a compound annual growth rate of 2.2%. TOKYO: Willis, a WTW business, today announced a significant expansion...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 23, 2025 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Under this agreement, NEXI will underwrite reinsurance for export credit insurance underwritten by ECGC for Japanese companies in India exporting goods from India to third countries, including those in Africa NEXI is in the process of registering as a reinsurer with...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 30, 2025 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
The shallow earthquake damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan’s eastern seaboard – devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011 – was ordered to evacuate. Workers evacuated the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 21, 2025 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Policy, Regulation
Eliminating cross shareholdings is seen by many as a yardstick for measuring corporate governance reform at Japanese companies. Japan’s industry body for non-life insurers told its members in September to cut their cross-shareholdings in the aftermath of a...
