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Ex-Swiftcover boss Hardy launches direct Chinese insurer Xuan Zin Bao with Sinosafe

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The co-founder of the UK’s first online insurer is looking to replicate the success of Swiftcover in China as part of a pan-Asian roll out that started in the last fortnight.

Three years after leaving his role as CEO of Axa's personal lines business, Steve Hardy has overseen the launch of Xuan Zin Bao in his capacity as executive chairman of Ignite Holdings, a Hong Kong

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