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Insurance brokers driving innovation and supporting insurers through some market challenges, suggests Afro-Asian Insurance Services
African insurance brokers are supporting the industry across the continent by driving innovation, according to Ryan Phillips, managing director at Afr [...]
Organisations need to prepare as South African reserve bank predicts a perfect storm of risk factors, warns Riskonet
Risk management consultancy Riskonet has expressed concern over the country’s macro-risk status following the South African Reserve Bank’s latest fina [...]
Impact of Covid, crew and congestion brings heightened risks for shipping, warns AGCS
While the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in few direct claims for the marine insurance sector, the impact on the welfare of crews and the boom in shipping [...]
Willie Lategan succeeds Saks Ntombela as Hollard Group CEO
The Hollard Insurance Group has announced that Willie Lategan, former group CFO and currently CEO of Hollard’s short-term insurance arm, will take ove [...]
Rising inequality impacting negatively on insurance protection, warns Swiss Re
A new study by the Swiss Re Institute warns that rising inequality in advanced markets exacted a $252bn toll on insurance protection in 2019, making h [...]
Insurance key in transitioning to net zero peacefully, warns new report from UN Environment Programme
It has been recognised that the shift to a resilient net-zero economy will likely increase prosperity and could be a net driver of job creation, howev [...]
African firms must internalise ESG strategies to build trust and ensure long-term sustainability, says PwC
Firms conducting trade in Africa must develop and implement environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies to avail of the business growth and [...]
MoU to boost Islamic insurance
The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) and the International Federation of Islamic Takaful and Insurance Co [...]
ATI provides insurance support for Ethiopian telecoms development
Following liberalization of Ethiopia’s telecom sector, the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) has provided a 10-year investment risk insurance cover [...]
Ukraine war has red flags for all of us, including Africa
In 2015, I wrote a book called Flagwatching – How a fox decodes the future. It was published by Tafelberg in November of that year. I devoted ten of t [...]