🇺🇸 The Hartford's Third-Quarter Core Earnings Slip 6% to $956 Million as Catastrophe Losses Nearly Triple, While a $497 Million Asbestos Gain and a CEO Handover Take the Headlines — The Hartford Form 8-K earnings news release (October 26, 2026)🇺🇸 Cincinnati Financial's Third-Quarter Operating Income Holds at $443 Million Even as Catastrophe Losses Add 7 Points to the Combined Ratio, and Net Income Falls 59% on Missing Equity Gains — Cincinnati Financial Form 8-K earnings release (October 26, 2026)🇫🇷 Storm Austen Leaves More Than 280,000 Customers Without Power in Northwest France With 100 mph Gusts, but Cotality Expects Modest, Widely Spread Insured Losses — Cotality Hazard HQ (October 23, 2026) and Meilleurtaux (October 23, 2026)🇨🇦 OSFI Tells Canadian P&C and Mortgage Insurers Q4 Filings Stay the Same, Then IFRS 18 Returns Start in Q1 2027, and the Final 2027 MICAT Cuts the Low-Rise Housing Risk Weight to 130% — Insurance Business Canada (October 23, 2026), reporting OSFI letters dated October 22, 2026🇯🇵 Super Typhoon Champi Passes East of Taiwan With One Dead and Hundreds Hurt, Then Weakens Toward Japan's Kyushu as No Insured Loss Estimates Emerge — Al Jazeera (October 23, 2026), Reuters via The Star (October 24, 2026) and Khaleej Times (October 21, 2026)🇦🇺 Suncorp's FY26 Annual Review: A$1.03bn Profit, 18 Natural Hazard Events and an A$254m Allowance Overrun, With a 52c Final Dividend and Up to A$250m More Buy-Back Planned — Suncorp Group Annual Review FY26 (CEO and Chairman messages, published August 2026) and Insurance Business Australia🇺🇸 Allstate Reports $220 Million of September Catastrophe Losses, Taking Third-Quarter Losses to $1.65 Billion and Six-Month Losses to $3.4 Billion — Allstate Form 8-K press release (October 15, 2026) and Artemis (October 16, 2026)🇺🇸 FEMA Lets Homeowners Buy Flood Insurance Online Without an Agent as the NFIP Faces a December 12 Expiry — Insurance Business (October 21, 2026), Beinsure (October 21, 2026) and Congressional Research Service🇦🇺 Victoria Gazettes Mandatory Five-Tier Flood Risk Ratings, and Insurers Say the Planning Rules Could Reshape Premiums Where Homes Are Built — Insurance Business Australia (October 23, 2026)🇨🇦 Canada's Cyber Insurance Market Stabilizes After the Ransomware Peak, but the Insurance Bureau of Canada Warns of Shared-Vendor and AI Concentration Risk — Insurance Business Canada (October 20, 2026 and September 29, 2026)🇺🇸 The Hartford's Third-Quarter Core Earnings Slip 6% to $956 Million as Catastrophe Losses Nearly Triple, While a $497 Million Asbestos Gain and a CEO Handover Take the Headlines — The Hartford Form 8-K earnings news release (October 26, 2026)🇺🇸 Cincinnati Financial's Third-Quarter Operating Income Holds at $443 Million Even as Catastrophe Losses Add 7 Points to the Combined Ratio, and Net Income Falls 59% on Missing Equity Gains — Cincinnati Financial Form 8-K earnings release (October 26, 2026)🇫🇷 Storm Austen Leaves More Than 280,000 Customers Without Power in Northwest France With 100 mph Gusts, but Cotality Expects Modest, Widely Spread Insured Losses — Cotality Hazard HQ (October 23, 2026) and Meilleurtaux (October 23, 2026)🇨🇦 OSFI Tells Canadian P&C and Mortgage Insurers Q4 Filings Stay the Same, Then IFRS 18 Returns Start in Q1 2027, and the Final 2027 MICAT Cuts the Low-Rise Housing Risk Weight to 130% — Insurance Business Canada (October 23, 2026), reporting OSFI letters dated October 22, 2026🇯🇵 Super Typhoon Champi Passes East of Taiwan With One Dead and Hundreds Hurt, Then Weakens Toward Japan's Kyushu as No Insured Loss Estimates Emerge — Al Jazeera (October 23, 2026), Reuters via The Star (October 24, 2026) and Khaleej Times (October 21, 2026)🇦🇺 Suncorp's FY26 Annual Review: A$1.03bn Profit, 18 Natural Hazard Events and an A$254m Allowance Overrun, With a 52c Final Dividend and Up to A$250m More Buy-Back Planned — Suncorp Group Annual Review FY26 (CEO and Chairman messages, published August 2026) and Insurance Business Australia🇺🇸 Allstate Reports $220 Million of September Catastrophe Losses, Taking Third-Quarter Losses to $1.65 Billion and Six-Month Losses to $3.4 Billion — Allstate Form 8-K press release (October 15, 2026) and Artemis (October 16, 2026)🇺🇸 FEMA Lets Homeowners Buy Flood Insurance Online Without an Agent as the NFIP Faces a December 12 Expiry — Insurance Business (October 21, 2026), Beinsure (October 21, 2026) and Congressional Research Service🇦🇺 Victoria Gazettes Mandatory Five-Tier Flood Risk Ratings, and Insurers Say the Planning Rules Could Reshape Premiums Where Homes Are Built — Insurance Business Australia (October 23, 2026)🇨🇦 Canada's Cyber Insurance Market Stabilizes After the Ransomware Peak, but the Insurance Bureau of Canada Warns of Shared-Vendor and AI Concentration Risk — Insurance Business Canada (October 20, 2026 and September 29, 2026)

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Japan's Diet Passes Law Reclassifying Crypto as Financial Products: About 20% Separate Tax Planned, Insider-Trading Rules and Tougher Penalties

Japan's upper house passed on July 15, 2026 an amendment to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act that treats crypto assets as financial products, adds insider-trading rules and disclosure duties, and raises penalties for unregistered operators, with a roughly 20% separate tax planned through later tax reform.


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