Author: Jakki Green
AXA invests in digitalised healthcare for Africa
AXA’s CIMA entities led by AXA Assurance Maroc, and Orange Middle East and Africa, have signed an agreement on the joint acquisition of a majority sta [...]
Green financing to get massive boost
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are strengthening their cooperation by launching a US$1.0 [...]
Work underway to help insurance companies achieve net zero
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership is leading work on a new report, Insurance systems for the climate decade, that wi [...]
Insurers must rethink their distribution models, warns new report
Insurers need to rethink their distribution models to offer uninterrupted service, superior customer experience (CX) and maximum value, as the industr [...]
Climate risk conversation growing but companies must become proactive in addressing risk
Law firm Clyde & Co has launched its 2021 climate change risk and liability report, Stepping up good governance to seize opportunities and reduce [...]
Investors upping their demands to reduce climate risks
Global investors apply increasingly sophisticated portfolio-construction techniques to stress-test the impact of a low-carbon economy on their investm [...]
Anglo makes a break from South African coal – another sign of the move away from fossil fuels
Insurers across Africa will be watching as yet another sign of the break from fossil fuels emerges.
While the arguments rage about emerging economi [...]
GFIA welcomes G20 commitment on climate change and protectionism
The Global Federation of Insurance Associations (GFIA) has welcomed a recent communiqué from the second G20 finance ministers and central bank governo [...]
ASR launches PVT capacity and adds underwriter to team
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the Pan-African focused reinsurance group, has launched war, political violence and terrorism (PVT) capacity to add to i [...]
Insurers must listen to clients to discover the nature of real risks
Stakeholders from across the insurance world, including leading African insurance experts, came together to learn, create, develop and implement strat [...]