Category: Sustainability
New partnership to identify evolving natcat threats to support insurers
Willis has agreed a scientific partnership with researchers at Cornell University and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future to identify evolvin [...]
What happens after a building collapse: the South African process
The recent and deeply tragic building collapses in George, Verulam, and, most recently, Ormonde, have brought renewed attention to a difficult questio [...]
Midmarket insurance has plenty of profitable opportunities, suggests McKinsey
Commercial insurance lines, such as property and liability, for companies with revenue between €20 million and €200 million represent one of the most [...]
Middle East crisis highlights risks for aviation insurers, warns WTW
Tensions in the Middle East have inevitably dominated discussions in the airline insurance market since the outbreak of hostilities between the US and [...]
KfW invests in ATIDI to support German business across Africa
The German development bank KfW, acting on behalf of and for the account of the Federal Republic of Germany, has become the latest share [...]
AI in financial services: where the real challenges are starting to emerge
You don’t have to look far to see how quickly artificial intelligence (AI) has settled into financial services. In some firms it remains tied to speci [...]
VIDEO: Regulators prepping industry for myriad challenges
With the Gulf war continuing and the insurance sector facing many challenges, a group of regulators spoke at the 11th Continental Re Summit of the nee [...]
Africa’s insurance executives challenged to move from talk to action amid evolving risk landscape
The authors are winners at the recent Continental Re 11th Pan-African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards 2026. Henry Uche topped the English Online ca [...]
World Bank-backed satellite cover showcases climate risk transfer with record payouts in a week
When the October-December rains failed across the Horn of Africa, 71,290 pastoralist families didn't have to wait. By the time governments gathered to [...]
Mixed bag for insurers as Uganda tables tax amendments
Uganda’s proposed tax amendments for the financial year 2026-2027 are drawing mixed reactions, with players in the insurance sector warning that some [...]