Author: Liz Booth
Liz Booth has more than 30 years’ experience as a journalist and editor, working on a mix of consumer and business titles but, for the past decade, has concentrated on the insurance and risk sector. Having grown up in west Africa and then lived in South Africa, she has a lifelong commitment to the continent and a passionate interest in its future success.
SanlamAllianz deal gets over the line to form SanlamAllianz in 27 markets, excluding South Africa
Sanlam, Africa’s largest non-banking financial services provider, and Allianz, one of the world’s leading insurers and financial services providers, h [...]
VIDEO: Green finance set to be a game changer for insurers and climate change adaptation
Kelvin Massingham, director of risk and resilience at FSD Africa and who is also on the Leadership group of the Nairobi Declaration on Sustainable Ins [...]
Les assureurs africains doivent soutenir une transition juste, en suivant le rythme africain, suggèrent les experts du marché
Alors que seulement 47 % de la population africaine a accès à l’électricité – ce qui signifie que quelque 600 millions de personnes n’ont pas d’électr [...]
African insurers must support a just transition at an African pace, suggest market experts
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With only 47% of African having access to electricity – meaning some 600-million people have no power [...]
Africa Climate Finance Week launches in Kenya, with insurers hoping to make an impact
Financing environmental priorities and shifting the focus from Africa as victim of floods and famine will be central to the debate at the continent’s [...]
VIDEO: The challenges posed by legacy systems
Simon Richardson, vice president, EMEA & APAC at Equisoft, discusses the challenges that insurers face in adopting technology, particularly when t [...]
African insurers escalating the risks of doing nothing in the face of new system implementations
The biggest risk in terms of technology implementation facing African insurers is that of doing nothing and falling behind their competitors.
This [...]
Financial literacy has to improve if African insurers are to make real in-roads
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Insurance penetration figures are notoriously low across the continent and regulators regularly push i [...]
La littératie financière doit s’améliorer si les assureurs veulent vraiment percer
Les chiffres de pénétration de l'assurance sont notoirement faibles sur le continent et les régulateurs poussent régulièrement les assureurs à essayer [...]
VIDEO: Financial literacy holding back insurance growth
Simon Richardson, vice president EMEA & APAC at Equisoft, discusses the key challenges facing insurers across Africa and the ways that these c [...]