Author: Gareth Stokes
Gareth Stokes is an award-winning financial journalist with more than two decades’ experience writing in the financial advice, insurance and investment disciplines.
Africa’s AI infrastructure buildout creates new test for insurer sustainability
Global insurers and reinsurers with clients in the compute, data centre and power utility sectors are in for a tumultuous decade as demand grows for i [...]
Geopolitical shocks elevate trade credit insurance as Africa’s trade resilience tool
African businesses need little reminder of the disruption caused to supply routes and cross-border trade by geopolitics and war. At any time, ther [...]
Les chocs géopolitiques renforcent le rôle de l’assurance-crédit commercial en tant qu’outil de résilience commerciale pour l’Afrique
Les entreprises africaines n’ont pas besoin qu’on leur rappelle les perturbations causées aux voies d’approvisionnement et au commerce transfrontalier [...]
Africa’s re/insurers at the crossroads of geopolitics and the AI revolution
Africa’s insurers and reinsurers will play a significant role in enabling the reindustrialisation that is taking place as today’s apparently cyclical [...]
Insurers rattled as extreme weather resets South Africa’s risk outlook
The benign catastrophe loss experience celebrated by South Africa’s insurers in their 2024 and 2025 annual reports has been ripped asunder by signific [...]
Early warnings could be Africa’s first line of defence against climate losses
Africa’s largest general insurer, Santam Limited, has partnered with the South African Weather Service (SAWS) to improve the country’s weather forecas [...]
How AI risks in compliance spill over into broader insurance sustainability
The elephant in the room in the 21st-century risk landscape is not how insurers and reinsurers are deploying artificial intelligence (AI) across the i [...]
Une table ronde met en lumière les risques interdépendants qui accroissent la complexité du secteur de l’assurance en Afrique
Selon les dirigeants d'Old Mutual Insure, les risques interdépendants redessinent le paysage de l'assurance en Afrique. Lors d'une récente table ronde [...]
Round table spotlights interconnected risks driving insurance complexity in Africa
Interconnected risks are reshaping Africa’s insurance landscape, according to Old Mutual Insure executives, who warned at a recent round table tha [...]
Africa’s sustainable finance challenge is moving beyond risk to impact
Allocators of capital that wish to stand out in today’s competitive global finance and investment landscape must find ways to create impact in add [...]