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Interview: Sompo Japan's new Zurich office has been set up in a bid to gain new access to Continental Europe reinsurance business, allowing the group to diversify its reinsurance book.
With a mission to bring new diversification to Sompo Japan's reinsurance book, Masashi Yamashita will head its new reinsurance operation in Zurich. The new entity will be known as Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Reinsurance Switzerland AG - or SJNK Re (Switzerland) for short.
Yamashita will serve as CEO, while Bjorn Bucher has been named as chief underwriter. The new reinsurance...