Author: Patrick Alushula
ESG guidelines reinforce Kenya insurers’ sustainability focus
Kenya’s securities exchange has given listed firms a year to start environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting, with insurers having the uppe [...]
Kenya’s digital lenders planning to sell microinsurance
Kenya’s digital lenders are planning to roll out microinsurance products and target thousands of customers tapping into small loans via mobile phones. [...]
Banking regulator rallies Kenya’s financial sector into sustainability strategies
Kenya’s banking regulator has directed lenders to include climate risk management in their business models, in a move that is likely to spread to othe [...]
Kenya’s insurers see hyper-personalised covers as a way to sustain growth
Kenya’s insurers are betting on hyper-personalised policies as the way to sustain current customers and win over the younger population, given that th [...]
Kenya’s regulator seeks insurance framework to sustainably grow medical covers
Kenya’s insurance regulator is closer to creating a legal and regulatory framework to grow uptake of private insurance through reduced costs without p [...]
Kenya unveils policy to grow agricultural insurance
Kenya has unveiled a policy paper to boost uptake of agricultural underwriting in a country where the cover accounts less than 1% of the total insuran [...]
Kenya’s insurance regulator to appeal decision letting brokers collect premiums
Kenya’s insurance regulator is appealing the recent court ruling that quashed amendments to underwriting rules that had barred brokers from collecting [...]
Kenya’s NHIF looks to cut fraud in bid for sustainability
Kenya’s primary health cover provider, the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), is counting on biometrics to speed up claims settlement and cut in [...]
Kenya’s top lender banks on DRC Congo for sustained growth
Kenya’s top lender Equity Group is counting on DRC Congo for sustained growth after completing the second acquisition deal in the central Africa count [...]