Category: Governance
Africa set to build resilience through takaful insurance
Takaful insurance is set to play an even bigger role in building African insurance markets and increasing resilience, while reducing the protection ga [...]
Zimbabwe hosting two major sustainability events next year
Zimbabwe has confirmed that it will host the sixth Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD), which will be held at Victoria Falls on 2 [...]
African insurers to expect greater scrutiny from UK investors
African businesses, including insurers, can expect UK investors to step up scrutiny of investments, as regulations related to climate change tighten. [...]
Ratings agency launches ESG heatmap
Fitch Ratings has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) 'heatmap' covering 29 different sub-sectors for financial institutions, to pr [...]
Banks join insurers in resilience agenda
The CEO of JP Morgan’s global transportation group Andrian Dacy has reminded us: “There is not one institutional investor in the west that is not thin [...]
Insurers join new coalition for resilient investment
Willis Towers Watson has spearheaded a new Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment. Launched at the UN Climate Action Summit, it represents 34 comp [...]
Have your say
Make sure you have your say in developing new sustainable insurance guidance for the industry. There’s just one month to go before the UN closes its c [...]
Egypt launches a national sustainable insurance strategy
Egyptian insurance industry leaders and financial regulators, UN officials and key stakeholders have agreed a pioneering initiative to develop a natio [...]