Bank
insurance companies should solve problems immediately
Source:
China Business Times Date: 26 Sep, 2006
At
the sixth of China Financial Forum which held in Beijing, Zhou Yanli,
the Vice-Chairman of CIRC said that as the state-owned commercial banks
and part of joint-stock banks have put forward requires to set up
insurance companies, the CIRC will give positive attention and serious
study and consideration. On the same day of the forum, Vice-Chairman of
CBRC Tang Shuangning also pointed out that the CBRC and CIRC have held
a top-level meeting on how to strengthen cooperation and promote the
development of the Bank and Insurance cooperation, the two supervision
authorities are actively support strengthen cooperation for Banks and
Insurance in capital. Since this year, Industrial and Commercial Bank
of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction
Bank and Bank of Communications, the five banks have put forward
intention of setting up insurance companies.
"Further
strengthen the comprehensive management, improve risk management and
control, strengthen the cooperation between the three supervision
authorities of banking, securities and insurance is new request that we
are facing to." Zhou Yanli Said. He expressed that the insurance
industry will be actively involved in the financial integrated
operation to achieve the coordinated development between insurance
market, currency market and capital market. The first is the promotion
of deep development between Bank and Insurance. On the basis of bank
work as an agent for insurance products, it should be actively explore
the level of cooperation in equity. Secondly, it should gradual
expansion investment on capital market. At present, insurance agency
has become the second largest institutional investors of bond market
and important investors in stock market. Thirdly, make steady progress
for group development model with the specialization base. China has
seven insurance Group Corp. and holding companies up to now. Zhou Yanli
believed that the commercial insurance should play a greater role. The
accumulation of insurance funds is 6 times of the Social Security
Funds. Social security funds are now more than 260 billion Yuan, and
the end of this year the relative commercial insurance amounts will
approach 2000 billion yuan.
In
addition, Zhou Yanli also said that in order to ensure a protection of
policyholders when insurance company quit the market, China has
established and improved insurance protection fund, "Now the total
amount of insurance protection fund has exceeded 6.3 billion Yuan, and
every year there will be 2-3 billion injection of new funds." Zhou
Yanli believed that the current insurance industry in our country is
still many problems, such as uneven development of the insurance
industry which revealed in the geographical area. At present, Shanghai,
Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, these five major areas accounts
for 60% or even 65% of total market share of the entire insurance
industry in China.
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