BIZCHINA / Overseas Investment
New day starts for Lloyd's
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2007-04-17 14:58
Lloyd's of London started operations of its new Chinese onshore
reinsurance operation in Shanghai yesterday as it taps the country's
growing reinsurance market and hopes to be involved in every facet of
China's economic life.
The new company - Lloyd's Reinsurance Company (China) Ltd - will enable
Lloyd's to reinsure the local currency business which now comprises
nearly 90 percent of the total Chinese reinsurance market, Lloyd's said.
Lord Levene of Portsoken, the chairman of Lloyd's, said yesterday in
Shanghai that it was a very important day for the company.
China's economy is growing so fast that "we want to get involved in every
part of the economy with no restriction on specific sectors," he replied
to questions on which industries Lloyd's would focus on.
Lloyd's 16 syndicates have been the founders of the new China operation.
The company, with a registered capital of 200 million yuan (US$26
million), will have four underwriters in Shanghai initially, and 10
Lloyd's staff members. Staff numbers are expected to grow.
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