Insurance Law

Equity investments with insurance capital limited to certain businesses.

The Measures detail the qualification conditions, subject matter of investments, investment code, risk control and oversight in connection with equity investment with insurance capital.

All insurance institutions allowed to conduct interest rate swaps.

Policy to level investment field for foreign insurers.

Independent third parties may be appointed to evaluate internal controls of insurance companies.

Insurance regulator aims to develop discipline of risk management and mitigation

China's insurance watchdog has fine-tuned its measures for managing the reinsurance market, and they reflect the regulator's new appetite for being kept up-to-date and informed

New measures tighten the administration of investment into the insurance sector, but now foreign participants can expect equal treatment with domestics on shareholding ratio requirements. And for the first time, the new rules address horizontal competition

Shareholding restriction on single shareholders of insurance companies relaxed.