Category: Governance
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 [...]
SARB quick to hike interest rates as inflation worries mount
Insurers may be interested to note that the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has confirmed its willingness to target rising inflation, despite the ec [...]
MIC Global set to join Lloyd’s
MIC Global has received ‘in-principle’ approval from Lloyd’s for the creation of MIC Global Insurance syndicate in a box, Syndicate MIC 5183. MIC Glob [...]
Countries must deliver on COP26 promises to support emerging markets
Countries need to work together to deliver on the promises made in Glasgow, COP26 president Alok Sharma has stressed
In his first major speech sinc [...]