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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 (Bernama) -- Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has named Caroline Alder-Smurthwaite to its Global Underwriting Office for Casualty & Healthcare and promoted Charlotte Behar to succeed Alder-Smurthwaite as Head of Casualty, United Kingdom (UK).
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 (Bernama) -- BUSINESSNEXT, a global leader in composable enterprise solutions for financial services, has partnered with New York-based MongoDB to accelerate autonomous operations powered with specialised predictive and generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) for banking and insurance.
By Zufazlin Baharuddin
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Takaful Association (MTA) hopes the government will increase tax relief for life, education and medical insurance premiums in Budget 2025.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 26 (Bernama) -- Global analytics software leader FICO in its latest global consumer fraud research, revealed the alarming attitudes toward first-party financial fraud both in the Malaysian market and globally.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 (Bernama) -- The ringgit has been rising steadily against the US dollar, notably since early July, following greater clarity of the interest rate path of developed countries, especially that of the United States, according to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 (Bernama) -- Hong Kong’s new risk-based capital regulatory framework is expected to strengthen enterprise risk management (ERM) practices among the (re)insurers doing business there, according to a new AM Best report.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s accumulated fixed asset investment, or gross capital stock (GKS), grew 3.0 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to RM5.60 trillion in 2023, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) said.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 (Bernama) – Malaysia demonstrated impressive growth in financial assets in 2023, with per capita net financial assets reaching EUR9,430 (1 EUR=RM4.6427), according to Allianz Malaysia Bhd.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) -- AM Best in its new report revealed that long-term issuer credit rating (Long-Term ICR) upgrades exceeded downgrades for its rated Asia-Pacific (APAC) (re)insurers in 2023, driven predominantly by improved balance sheet strength and favourable operating performance.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) -- AirAsia is expanding its domestic connectivity across Malaysia with the addition of 2,000 weekly flights and 150,000 seats across 40 key routes by the end of the year.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 (Bernama) -- Global credit rating agency, AM Best has maintained a stable outlook on China’s non-life insurance segment, citing several factors that include a supportive regulatory environment, increased health insurance awareness and strong growth potential in the electric vehicle (EV) insurance market.
