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China Issues Sweeping Rules to Regulate $15 Trillion in Asset Management Products
China's central bank on Friday issued sweeping guidelines to tighten rules on asset management business, the latest step by Beijing to fend off systemic risks in the country's rampantly growing ...
China Will Let Overseas Firms Buy Majority Stakes in Its Domestic Insurers
China took a major step toward the long-awaited opening of its financial system, saying it will remove foreign ownership limits on banks while allowing overseas firms to take majority stakes in local ...
China Taiping Insurance Group Wants to Buy $1.3B Hong Kong Tower
A unit of state-owned China Taiping Insurance Group is in advanced talks to acquire a newly built office tower in Hong Kong from Henderson Land Development Co., according to people with knowledge of ...
Chubb Inks Multiyear Distribution Deal With Asia’s DBS Bank
Chubb inked a new multiyear distribution deal with DBS Bank, a financial giant that will give it even deeper market penetration in Asia. The agreement calls for Chubb to distribute general insurance ...
Anbang Insurance Workers Comp Complaint Seeks to Reveal Ownership Secrets
A U.S. labor group representing more than 1,000 workers at hotels owned by Anbang Insurance Group Co. is asking authorities to force the Chinese firm to disclose its ownership and financing. The ...
AIG Execs: Cyber Insurance Demand Will Soar in China, Asia Following WannaCry Attack
Demand for cyber insurance from firms in Greater China and elsewhere in Asia is poised to soar, based on enquiries received after the "WannaCry ransomware" attack earlier this year, executives at ...
Fosun International Leader Backs China Crackdown on Outbound M&A Deals
Billionaire Guo Guangchang, whose Fosun International Ltd. is under scrutiny by Chinese authorities over its foreign mergers and acquisitions, said the government's clampdown on outbound investments ...
Anbang Insurance Pressured by China to Unload Overseas Assets
When Anbang Insurance Group Co. agreed to buy New York's iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel for $1.95 billion in 2014, the world took notice. It was a defining moment in the global rise of China Inc., a ...