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  • Comment - Evergrande fails to live up to its name, but will China's insurers survive its death-knell?

    29 January 2024

    Hong Kong court today told Chinese property developer seeking a stay of its liquidation, 'enough is enough'

  • The CBIRC's legacy - a safe pair of hands for Chinese insurance regulation

    14 March 2023

    The CBIRC is reportedly being dissolved and its duties transferred. David Walker finds an industry praising the modernising, improving impetus behind its work on C-ROSS Phase II, to benefit risk management and China's society more generally

  • China industry practitioners praise CBIRC as dissolution flagged

    10 March 2023

    New set up suggests a more centralized regulatory mechanism

  • China proposes folding CBIRC into new body

    09 March 2023

    New regulator would sit directly below State Council

  • China's regulator identifies investment reporting shortfalls in C-Ross Phase II

    16 January 2023

    Number of life insurers named by CBIRC

  • Comment: - World Title fight announced - for 'EIOPA versus Climate Change'

    06 December 2022

    Distilling a fight for the planet's future, into 119 pages, clearly took some doing

  • China's insurers suffer expected fall in solvency as C-Ross Phase II takes effect

    13 July 2022

    Fitch warns long-term equity and credit investors to expect lower ratios

  • Table of the Week- CIOs given deep insight into Chinese firms' ESG activities

    27 May 2022

    New Chinese standards for corporate ESG reporting revealed

  • Chinese lifers cut back risky investments in Q1, Fitch finds

    20 May 2022

    Core solvency ratios fall in Q1 despite use of new rules' transitional measures

  • Ratings agencies have 'positive outlook' on China's C-Ross Phase II

    18 April 2022

    Fitch and Moody's tell David Walker Phase II new rules may lower average solvency ratios, but they will lift risk- and capital management, including for investments, at insurers