INDONESIA - TAKAFUL - Up close and personal with Hans De Cuyper

www.thestar.com.my - FOR someone who had never aspired to work in insurance, Hans De Cuyper has come a long way.

The 42-year-old CEO of Etiqa Insurance and Takaful - Malayan Banking Bhd's (Maybank) insurance arm - grew up in Belgium where he read mathematics and actuarial science in university.

“If you come out as a mathematician, the world is not very exciting,” he tells StarBizWeek in an interview. “And once you do actuarial science, you have more or less chosen your profession because 90% of actuarists go into insurance.”  (source)

INDONESIA - TAKAFUL - Etiqa Takaful to expand ops (Indonesia included)

KUALA LUMPUR: Maybank's Islamic insurance arm, Etiqa Takaful Bhd, is on an acquisition trail to boost its business, both locally and abroad.

Etiqa Takaful commands about 45 per cent of the domestic takaful market and currently carries out business in Brunei, Singapore and Pakistan.

"That (merger and acquisition) is something consistently on the board," Etiqa Takaful's chief executive officer Shahril Azuar Jimin told Business Times in a recent interview. (source)