Archive

  • Moody's welcomes extra scrutiny by Japan's watchdogs of insurers' private credit

    11 November 2024

    Lifers have liberated capital for re-use, from lowering interest rate risk

  • MS&AD, Sompo and Tokio Marine untangle JPY 317bn of strategic equities in June quarter

    15 August 2024

    Solvency levels of groups rose despite the sell-downs

  • Japan's lifers hold nearly 10% of investments in local shares, FSA reveals

    08 July 2024

    Regulator published annual scorecard for year to March, last week

  • APAC weekly - Japanese insurers in full 'sorry mode', including for past investments

    02 July 2024

    From strategic investments to staff being arrested, it seems Japan's insurers can't stop apologising

  • Investment strength helps Japan's largest insurers improve profits and solvency in 2024

    18 June 2024

    But FX hedging costs rose nonetheless, FSA finds

  • Japan's FSA updates market on progress towards forthcoming solvency regime

    31 May 2024

    Field-testing results from 2023 were also published today

  • IMF recommends more thorough review of Japanese insurers' asset risk by FSA

    27 May 2024

    In latest Assessment of Observance on Insurance Core Principles report

  • Japanese watchdog gets 21 takers for ESG data code of conduct

    22 January 2024

    Code's founding technical committee chaired by professor Tetsuo Kitagawa of Aoyama Gakuin University

  • Sovereign green bonds perhaps no longer game changer, Japanese FSA's Ikeda says

    28 February 2023

    APAC sovereign green bond issuance revealed

  • Regulator rejects Gjensidige's amendments to market risk calculation

    04 February 2020

    Amendments were expected to reduce required capital by NOK 500m