People’s Insurance Company, ICBC Deepen Partnership

People’s Insurance Company (Group) of China Limited, one of the insurance conglomerates in the country, inked an overall cooperation agreement with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC, SHSE: 601398 and SEHK: 1398) on October 21, 2010.

Under the agreement, the two partners will work together in all sectors like bancassurance agency, asset management, enterprise annuity, e-commerce, as well as insurance cover, according to the Beijing-based insurance company.

The partnership will enable both companies to beef up their competitiveness in the fast-expanding bancassurance market to bring better financial insurance services to their customers, pointed out Wu Yan, president for People’s Insurance Company.

The cooperation marks a deepening of a strategic partnership between People’s Insurance Company and ICBC, said Yang Kaisheng, president for ICBC. ICBC, based in Beijing, is the biggest bank in China, owned by the state.

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