Category: Risk Management
MGAs warned to improve governance around AI in new paper
Managing general agents have been urged to establish formal artificial intelligence (AI) governance frameworks before growing operational, cyber and r [...]
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 [...]
Zimbabwe motor insurers rethink risk as claims costs outpace premiums
Zimbabwe's motor insurers are coming under increasing pressure to innovate as rising claims costs, particularly on older vehicles, continue to strain [...]
South Africa’s extensive autumn flooding analysed by JBA
Successive low-pressure systems brought destructive flooding, landslides and damaging winds to large parts of South Africa during May 2026, causing fa [...]
ESG-driven models could boost insurers’ resilience to future shocks
As climate-related disasters grow in frequency and severity across the globe, insurance companies are increasingly embracing Environmental, Social, an [...]
Why Africa’s insurers must rethink how they choose reinsurance solutions
For insurers, reinsurance is a necessary backstop. They use reinsurance to transfer risk, stabilise earnings and protect capital. The place of rei [...]
Carbon credit insurance rises amid scrutiny of Africa’s offset market
Carbon insurance is emerging as a growing niche in global climate finance. Insurers and reinsurers are beginning to price risks linked to the reliabil [...]
Can residents compel multiple state entities to fix failing infrastructure?
Residents across South Africa face chronic infrastructure failures. Flooding, exposed sewer lines, collapsing riverbanks and stormwater mismanagement [...]
Sustainable insurance hinges on better data and pricing discipline as risks evolve
The risks keep evolving and 2026 has started with the whole gamut, with events across the world highlighting the need for sustainable and affordab [...]
Pools could unlock Africa’s capacity to insure complex risks
Africa boasts some 78 insurance pools across the continent out of a global total of 451, delegates at the 52nd general assembly of the Africa Insuranc [...]