Cynthia Cui and Luigi Boglione tell Intelligent Insurer how facultative reinsurance is taking on a new strategic role in APAC
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In a roundtable with @Intelligent Insurer, Cynthia Cui, Managing Director and Head of APAC Fac Reinsurance, and Luigi Boglione, Managing Director and Head of International Fac, explored how facultative (“fac”) reinsurance is evolving into a strategic lever for insurers worldwide.
Cynthia Cui highlighted the regional shift: “Fac purchasing has become a strategic tool for navigating elevated risk environments and secondary perils. In APAC’s rapidly urbanising cities, fac helps manage accumulation and preserve solvency when typhoons, floods or earthquakes strike.”
Luigi Boglione added: “In this shifting environment, an integrated model - pairing fac, treaty, capital markets and analytics - is valuable for clients globally. This is especially effective in developing markets, where reinsurers deploy capital and transfer knowledge, strengthening local ecosystems.”
Across Asia-Pacific, the fac market is moving from transactional to strategic, linking global expertise with local execution to support clients facing rising catastrophe exposure, large-scale infrastructure investment and emerging sectors from renewables to semiconductors.