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.
SASRIA to receive top-up funding from South African government
South Africa’s National Treasury has confirmed an additional ZAR11bn lifeline for the state-owned special risks insurer, Sasria SOC Limited (Sasria). [...]
Digital solutions assist in recalibrating insurance risk
Global insurers and reinsurers are leveraging technology to get closer to data, gain new insights into risk and recalibrate their traditional take on [...]
Digitalisation, professionalism and trust are standout features of sustainable insurance
Banks, insurers and insurance brokers that incorporate digitalisation, professionalism and trust into their operating models will dominate the Africa [...]
Flood risk rising across Africa – insurers need to measure up
Climate change is a hot topic at the moment, with global leaders descending on Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss climate-related matters at COP26, the 202 [...]
Climate change and net-zero emissions in the spotlight at COP26
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) got off to a rocky start following mixed messages from preliminary discussions at the G20 Summit [...]
Underwriting facility set to energise geothermal development in Kenya and Ethiopia
FSD Africa, in partnership with Parhelion, a UK-based specialist energy and climate risk finance advisory company, is planning to launch a first-of-it [...]
Fake oil spills send sustainability warning to global insurance heavyweights
On 29 October 2021, protesters taking part in the global Defund Climate Chaos protests spilled 1,000 litres of fake oil on the doorsteps of two insura [...]
Resilience and sustainability ‘top of mind’ as insurers reassess global risks
Insurers and reinsurers must find innovative ways to identify, mitigate and transfer the risks associated with climate, cybercrime, pandemic and socia [...]
Resilient reinstatement: insurers explore ways to achieve net zero
The general insurance industry will have to reinvent its coverages and operating models to make a more meaningful contribution to reducing global carb [...]
South African courts imposes 18-month indemnity period to Covid-19 BI claims
Santam, South Africa’s largest general insurer, has been instructed by the country's Supreme Court of Appeals (SCA) to apply an 18-month indemnity per [...]