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Regulation & Compliance - June 21, 2026 - 9 min read

Bond Forwards and the FRA Exit: How Insurers' 2026 Hedging Shift Reads Through to Long-Tail Commercial Pricing

IRDAI has cleared insurers to use bond forwards for interest-rate hedging, and an estimated three and a half trillion rupees of derivative exposure is migrating out of forward rate agreements. This piece translates that asset-liability shift into what brokers should expect for long-duration liability and engineering pricing.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Underwriting & Risk - June 21, 2026 - 10 min read

Designing the Trigger, Owning the Basis Risk: A Parametric Catastrophe Underwriting Manual for Indian Commercial Buyers

Parametric covers have moved from informal-sector heat pilots into corporate property and business-interruption programmes. This desk-level manual shows brokers how to interrogate a trigger, model basis risk, set the payout curve, and position a parametric layer alongside the indemnity tower for cat-exposed Indian accounts.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Risk Management Strategies - June 21, 2026 - 10 min read

How Risk-Based Capital Changes Captive Economics: Fronting Costs, Large-Account Capacity and Retention Strategy Under India's April 2026 Regime

IRDAI's Risk-Based Capital regime and Ind AS 117 take effect from April 2026, tying insurer capital to actual risk profile. For corporates running captives, the change flows straight into fronting fees, collateral demands and the capacity an Indian carrier will lend a concentrated large account.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Operations & Best Practices - June 20, 2026 - 10 min read

The 15-Day Settlement Rule: Re-Engineering Broker Claims SOPs for IRDAI's 2026 Penalty Clock

IRDAI's 2026 rule forces insurers to settle genuine health claims within 15 days of the final discharge summary, with auto-approval and penal interest for delays. This shifts the burden of speed onto whoever controls document flow, and gives brokers a measurable service edge if they instrument the clock and own the receipt timestamp.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Industry Risk Profiles - June 20, 2026 - 10 min read

GCC Office Campus Property and Construction Risk Profile India 2026: Insuring the Mega-Campus Build and Tenant Fit-Out

GCCs leased around 30 million sq ft in 2025, one of their strongest years, and are pivoting to single-occupier mega-campuses. That shift creates a distinct property and contractors all risks exposure, with anchor-tenant concentration, fit-out valuation and rent-loss problems that a generic office programme does not price correctly.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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Underwriting & Risk - June 20, 2026 - 10 min read

Underwriting Above the Snowline: GLOF Exposure for Himalayan Hydropower, Transmission and Project Cargo in 2026

Glacial lake outburst floods are a low-frequency, total-loss peril that ordinary STFI and flood wordings handle badly. The 2023 Teesta-III loss, where GLOF cover sat capped at Rs 500 crore against a Rs 11,400 crore sum insured, shows why brokers need a deliberate GLOF underwriting framework for Himalayan project risk.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Regulation & Compliance - June 20, 2026 - 10 min read

IRDAI's March 2026 Finance and Investment Amendment: What Ind-AS Alignment Does to Insurer Asset Books and Your Capacity

IRDAI's 30 March 2026 amendment to the Actuarial, Finance and Investment Functions regulations forces insurers onto Ind-AS financial statements from 1 April 2026. The rewiring of how assets are measured and reported quietly reshapes which insurers can hold long-tail commercial risk, and brokers who read it place better.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Insurance Products - June 20, 2026 - 11 min read

Surety Bonds Reach the Power Sector: What the Ministry of Power's April 2026 Move Means for Bid and Performance Security

On 6 April 2026 the Ministry of Power accepted insurance surety bonds as an alternative to bank guarantees across all power procurement frameworks, from solar and wind to BESS and transmission. Brokers placing for IPPs, EPC firms and equipment suppliers now have to master surety underwriting, indemnity and recovery.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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Insurance for Startups & New Economy - June 20, 2026 - 10 min read

When the FDA Suspends a Dark Store Licence: Food-Safety, Recall and Product-Liability Cover for Quick Commerce in 2026

Quick-commerce property and cold-chain policies pay for fire and freezer breakdown, not for a suspended FSSAI licence, condemned stock, or a wave of consumer-illness claims. The real dark-store exposure sits in product liability, product recall and consequential business interruption, and on most q-comm accounts it is missing.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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Market & Trends - June 20, 2026 - 11 min read

Reinsurer Entry Just Got Cheaper: The Rs 1,000 Crore Net-Owned-Fund Cut and Onshore Capacity

The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Act 2025 cut the net-owned-fund bar for foreign reinsurer branches from Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 1,000 crore. That lowers the price of an onshore Indian presence and reshapes which specialist reinsurers can hold paper here, and what cedents and brokers can demand on terms.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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Risk Management Strategies - June 20, 2026 - 10 min read

What to Actually Do With a Soft Market: Restructuring Retentions, Multi-Year Locks and Captive Fills While 2026 Capacity Is Cheap

April 2026 Indian property treaty renewals turned firmly soft, with loss-free excess-of-loss cuts above 20 percent and abundant domestic capacity. The smart move is not to bank a one-year discount but to re-engineer programme structure, widen wordings and lock durable terms before the cycle turns.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Regulation & Compliance - June 19, 2026 - 10 min read

FEMA Non-Debt Instruments Second Amendment 2026: The Resident-KMP and FDI-Screening Conditions Behind 100% Foreign Ownership of Brokers

The headline says 100% foreign ownership of insurers and intermediaries. The fine print of the FEMA NDI Second Amendment, 2026, decides whether your deal clears: automatic route, a resident-Indian KMP rule, tighter beneficial-owner screening, and IRDAI fit-and-proper approval still gating every transaction.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Risk Management Strategies - June 19, 2026 - 10 min read

Running the Captive Tax Math: GIFT City's IFSC Tax Holiday and Zero-Rated GST Versus Onshore Section 37 for Indian Corporates in 2026

The captive decision in 2026 is mostly a tax-and-cash-flow comparison. We model the GIFT City IFSC income-tax holiday and GST zero-rating against onshore Section 37 premium deductibility, then show brokers the after-tax total-cost number a CFO actually asks for before a board approves any structure.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Market & Trends - June 19, 2026 - 9 min read

The IFSCA Reinsurance Sidecar Is Coming: How Collateralised Capital at GIFT City Could Reshape Cat Capacity

IFSCA is building a special-purpose-insurer sidecar framework at GIFT City, with collateralised reinsurance and standardised parametric reporting in scope. Here is how a sidecar differs from a cat bond, where its capacity will land first (property cat and parametric), and what Indian cedents and their brokers should do now.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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Global & Cross-Border Insurance - June 19, 2026 - 11 min read

India-UK CETA in Mid-2026: The Posted-Worker Insurance Stack the Double Contribution Convention Leaves Exposed

The India-UK trade deal and its Double Contribution Convention are set to take effect in mid-July 2026, exempting seconded Indian professionals from UK social-security contributions for up to three years. That exemption shifts NICs, not healthcare or liability exposure, so brokers must rebuild the secondment cover stack around a gap the convention quietly creates.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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AI & Insurtech - June 19, 2026 - 10 min read

IRDAI's May 2026 AI Cyber-Readiness Directive: Frontier-AI Threats, the Action-Taken Report, and What Brokers and TPAs Must File

IRDAI's Information and Cyber Security Guidelines 2026 replaced the 2023 framework and pulled brokers, TPAs and web aggregators into a formal attestation regime. With an action-taken report on AI cyber readiness due in May, this is the practitioner checklist plus the cyber-insurance read-across most intermediaries have not yet mapped.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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Underwriting & Risk - June 19, 2026 - 10 min read

IS 1893:2025 Redraws the Hazard Map: What the New Seismic Code and Zone 6 Mean for Earthquake Underwriting and Retrofit Credits

The Bureau of Indian Standards drafted a probabilistic seismic code with a top-tier Zone 6, then withdrew it in March 2026. The hazard picture it surfaced does not revert with the gazette. This post turns that signal into earthquake rate movement, retrofit-credit logic and sum-insured adequacy for brokers.

By Tarun Kumar Singh

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Insurance for Startups & New Economy - June 19, 2026 - 10 min read

Karnataka's Gig Workers Welfare Fee and What It Forces Aggregators to Buy: Insurance Structuring After the February 2026 Notification

Karnataka's February 2026 welfare-fee notification adds a statutory cost line for every ride-hailing, delivery and quick-commerce platform in the state. The fund is not a substitute for insurance. Aggregators still carry direct liability for rider accidents, and brokers must map fund-versus-policy overlap before renewal.

By Sarvada Editorial Team

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