Category: Sustainability
Global uncertainty increases risks across Africa, warns S&P
Global uncertainties, including volatile commodity prices, hint to increasing risks for African countries, warns rating agency S&P Global Ratings. [...]
VIDEO: How can African insurers close the protection gap while the threat of natcat increases?
African insurers are well aware of the enormous protection gap across the continent, but the fear is that natural catastrophes might increase with [...]
Sustainable finance regulation to reshape the future for Africa’s insurers
As businesses in the United States (US) dial down their climate and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) focuses, firms in the rest of the world [...]
Expansion of Uganda’s agricultural insurance subsidy kitty could boost farmers’ resilience
Despite Uganda’s agricultural sector being the backbone of the economy, contributing about 24.1% to gross domestic product (GDP) and about a third of [...]
Ethical business practices could stem fraud and corruption while boosting insurance uptake
Ethical business practices could help the Zimbabwean insurance sector to stem fraud and corruption, helping boost the penetration rate by addressing p [...]
Why continuous professional development matters in insurance space
Continuous professional development (CPD), or mandatory professional development as it is known in some markets, is becoming an ever more crucial part [...]
Burkina Faso’s insurers stage resilience, adaptability amid crisis
Burkina Faso's insurance market is one of the most dynamic in the CIMA zone, which comprises 14 markets in West and Central Africa.
The country [...]
Loss adjusters must adopt tech to reap from Africa’s free trade bloc, suggests Nigerian insurance regulator
Nigeria’s insurance regulator, National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), has challenged loss adjusters in the West African country to leverage technolog [...]
MAIF supported by Moody’s in understanding climate risks
MAIF (Mutuelle assurance des Instituteurs de France), a mutual insurer supporting more than four million households, associations, businesses and comm [...]
ASR agrees binding authority with Sava Re
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the developing-markets-focused (re)insurance group, has signed binding authority agreements with Sava Re, the Slovenian [...]