... Professional Development for Licensed Insurance Intermediaries (GL24) We have today issued a set of Interpretation Notes relating to the Guideline on Continuing Professional Development for Licensed Insurance Intermediaries (GL24), which can be downloaded from the website of the Insurance Authority (“IA”). The...
https://www.ia.org.hk/english/legislative_framework/circulars/reg_matters/files/Circular_Interpretation_Notes.pdf -
Date: 2021-09-09
... insurance agencies and licensed insurance broker companies be changed. Currently (i.e. prior to the promulgation of the proposed F&P Guideline), the minimum education standard for individual licensees is set at completion of Form 5 (i.e. no additional education requirement is required in respect of a...
https://www.ia.org.hk/english/infocenter/files/Conclusions_Paper_Eng_final.pdf -
Date: 2019-09-03
... which set out principles of best practice for compliance by insurers e.g. Guideline on Underwriting Class C Business (“GL15”) and Guideline on Underwriting Long Term Insurance Business (other than Class C Business) (“GL16”). Code of Conduct for Insurance...
https://www.ia.org.hk/english/consumer/industry_practices_associated_with_the_sale_of_Insurance_policies.html -
Date: 2020-04-21
...;Insurance Ordinance (Cap.41) (“IO”), and the applicable requirements set out in the rules, regulations, codes and guidelines made or issued under the IO. For monitoring the continuing compliance with the statutory conduct requirements, the IA may apply suitable supervisory tools...
https://www.ia.org.hk/english/supervision/reg_ins_intermediaries/insurance_agents.html -
Date: 2021-07-13
... Recommendation by giving special attention to business relations and transactions with persons, including companies and financial institutions, from the above NCCTs. This is in addition to the requirements set out in the Guidance Note on Prevention of Money Laundering issued by the Insurance Authority....
https://www.ia.org.hk/english/legislative_framework/circulars/antimoney_laundering/circular270901.html -
Date: 2017-06-23
... Individual licensees are required to comply with the Continuing Professional Development (“CPD”) requirements as set out in the Guideline on Continuing Professional Development for Licensed Insurance Intermediaries (“GL24”) issued by the Insurance Authority (“IA”). The first CPD Assessment Period under the...
https://www.ia.org.hk/english/legislative_framework/circulars/reg_matters/files/Circular_28022020_insurers.pdf -
Date: 2020-06-15
... Individual licensees are required to comply with the Continuing Professional Development (“CPD”) requirements as set out in the Guideline on Continuing Professional Development for Licensed Insurance Intermediaries (“GL24”) issued by the Insurance Authority (“IA”). The first CPD Assessment Period under the...
https://www.ia.org.hk/english/legislative_framework/circulars/reg_matters/files/Circular_28022020_insurers.pdf -
Date: 2020-12-21
... that its insurance agents meet the fit and proper criteria set out in the Code of Practice for the Administration of Insurance Agents issued by The Hong Kong Federation of Insurers, which include, inter alia, the minimum education requirement, i.e. completion of Form 5 education or equivalent. As the...
https://www.ia.org.hk/english/legislative_framework/circulars/reg_matters/files/Fitness_and_Properness_of_Appointed_Insurance_Agents.pdf -
Date: 2018-01-12
... reinsurers when they consider ceding business offshore. Hong Kong is also an ideal location for Mainland companies, and especially state-owned enterprises (“SoEs”), to set up captive insurers. Having a captive insurer in Hong Kong can help a Mainland group pool the risks among its subsidiaries and associates...
https://www.ia.org.hk/english/infocenter/files/IA_Annual_Report_2017_18_English.pdf -
Date: 2021-12-14
... reinsurers when they consider ceding business offshore. Hong Kong is also an ideal location for Mainland companies, and especially state-owned enterprises (“SoEs”), to set up captive insurers. Having a captive insurer in Hong Kong can help a Mainland group pool the risks among its subsidiaries and associates...
https://www.ia.org.hk/english/infocenter/files/IA_Annual_Report_2017_18_English.pdf -
Date: 2022-05-24