... trade tensions and social events. Looking forward, there are immense emerging opportunities from the development of the Greater Bay Area and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The IA maintains close dialogue with the Mainland authorities to make breakthroughs in setting up post-sale service centres and...

... to form and base their captives in Hong Kong, pioneering issuance of insurance-linked securities and pursuing early establishment of after-sale service centres in the GBA. Ladies and gentlemen, COVID-19 has brought stress and frustrations to all of us, but it is incumbent upon the insurance industry...

... which insurance business is conducted. In this issue, we present the statistics for complaints received by the IA for the first half of 2021. In our Practice section, we take a look at regulatory issues which can emerge when not enough attention is paid to the servicing of insurance policies after the...

... which insurance business is conducted. In this issue, we present the statistics for complaints received by the IA for the first half of 2021. In our Practice section, we take a look at regulatory issues which can emerge when not enough attention is paid to the servicing of insurance policies after the...

... development, delivery, customer service and cost efficiency 3 Any other requirements? Solvency, capital, local asset requirements and policyholder protection measures to stay For long term business, at least one shareholder controller should be an insurer 4 “Fast Track” an ongoing thing? A pilot scheme only 5...

... of hosting custom-applications on platforms managed by third parties and the use of software and app applications as a service. With cloud solutions, insurers and investment managers alike would respond quickly for downscaling and upscaling usage. 3 Block-chain, the underlying technology of Bitcoin...

... of hosting custom-applications on platforms managed by third parties and the use of software and app applications as a service. With cloud solutions, insurers and investment managers alike would respond quickly for downscaling and upscaling usage. 3 Block-chain, the underlying technology of Bitcoin...

... of hosting custom-applications on platforms managed by third parties and the use of software and app applications as a service. With cloud solutions, insurers and investment managers alike would respond quickly for downscaling and upscaling usage. 3 Block-chain, the underlying technology of Bitcoin...

... nature arising from personal insurance contracts. Apart from maintaining the ICCB’s service of adjudicating claim-related disputes, the ICB has launched a new mediation service to handle non-claim related insurance disputes of a monetary nature starting from 16 July 2018. In this connection, besides...

... insurers should only pay commission on an earned basis. Commission 8 payable should also spread over an appropriate duration to encourage good after-sale service and duly reward long term relationship between intermediaries and policyholders. 9.4 Cases of mis-selling, aggressive selling, fraud and...