Category: Governance
African insurers urged to sign up to Nairobi Declaration on Sustainable Insurance
Insurers have been urged to sign up to the Nairobi Declaration on Sustainable Insurance as a first step towards creating a sustainable insurance indus [...]
Nigerian regulator launches insurance innovation lab
Nigeria’s insurance regulator (Naicom) and FSD Africa have partnered to launch the BimaLab accelerator programme in the country, to address gaps in th [...]
Emerging Africa needs social waypoints on its journey to net zero
Emerging market economies such as those in sub-Saharan Africa will have to consider a range of social factors alongside purely environmental measures [...]
The climate conversation remains at an ‘infant stage’ as more tools emerge to help insurance industry adapt
The need to understand the interconnectedness of the climate risk has never been greater, according to a new report.
Climate Tango: Principles for [...]
Global executives worried about reputation and ESG risk readiness
There is considerable lack of confidence on the part of global executives in their own organisations’ approach to reputational and ESG ‘risk readiness [...]
Africa’s public finances set to deteriorate post-Covid
Public debt trajectories in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will see greater differentiation during the next two years, after a general deterioration in publ [...]
Chaucer and Moody’s collaborate on the way businesses manage their ESG profile
Reinsurer Chaucer has teamed up with ratings agency Moody’s to produce an innovative, data-driven environmental, social and governance (ESG) ‘scorecar [...]
Data protection rules changing across Africa – something for insurers to watch
During the past 10 years, African countries have steadily passed laws and adopted regulations on cybersecurity, cybercrime, electronic transactions an [...]
Africa Ahead signs Nairobi Declaration as key meeting planned
Africa Ahead: the Sustainability Challenge has signed the Nairobi Declaration, committing to enhance the knowledge and capacity of the African insuran [...]
ESG discipline leads to increased profitability
Following environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles can actually lead to an increase in profit, suggests the CFO of a large African insure [...]