Category: Governance
Adapt or die, warns global ratings agency
The impacts from physical climate risk are growing and projected to get worse between now and 2050 unless the world makes serious inroads on its adapt [...]
Insurers need to keep abreast of changing African data protection laws, warns law firm
Countries including Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe have been implementing new measures [...]
Chaucer commits to net-zero underwriting and investment by 2050
Specialty (re)insurance group Chaucer has committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across all business operations by 2050 or so [...]
Nairobi Declaration on Sustainable Insurance marks first year with aim for 50 Signatories by COP27
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Will College of Insurance Supervisors strengthen regulation in west Africa?
The effort to tackle challenge of regulation and supervision in the insurance industry in west Africa received a boost recently with the establishment [...]
The catastrophe threat to SA’s just transition
The South African government could face tough challenges to meet its ambitious environmental and social targets due to the economic drag caused by sig [...]
New insurance law approved by Egyptian Senate
Following more than a month of debates, Egypt's Senate has approved a new government-drafted unified insurance law, which one MP described as necessar [...]
Nigerian regulator close to launching risk-based capital roadmap
The rising tide of bankruptcies and underperformance by insurance firms in Africa gave rise to the concept of risk-based capital model, through which [...]
Solvency regulation keeps SA life insurers on a sustainable path
South Africa’s comprehensive Solvency Assessment and Management (SAM) regime, which carries through in the Prudential Standards for Financial Institut [...]
SA bond market has a role to play in sustainable asset allocation
Asset managers and other financial institutions are increasingly turning to the South African bond market to improve their environmental, social and g [...]