Category: Social
Access to insurance increasing in Nigeria through new partnership
Nigerian insurer AXA Mansard has partnered with Insurpass, an insurance technology company, to provide access to affordable insurance coverage for eme [...]
New drive to bring banks and insurers together on sustainability agenda
Hot on the heels of COP26 and at a critical juncture between crisis and recovery across society, business and the environment, the UNEP FI Leadership [...]
Board directors fear cyberattacks most
Cyberattacks are the number one concern for board directors, according to new research from (re)insurance broker McGill and Partners.
Some 81% of b [...]
Guy Carpenter and Marsh merge fac operations in South Africa
Guy Carpenter and Marsh are to merge their South Africa facultative reinsurance operations into a single business, effective 1 January 2022. The new u [...]
ARC and Afreximbank sign deal on resilience and disaster risk financing
African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly enhance [...]
Just transition – not as simple as climate activists claim
As the curtains draw on the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, there are growing concerns over the capacity of individual country markets to a [...]
Partnerships central to Africa’s adaptation and resilience response
Partnerships between governments, institutions and the private sector will prove crucial in formulating Africa’s adaptation and resilience response to [...]
Comparing nat cat solutions and schemes worldwide: the African picture
Insurers around the world play a key role providing coverage for losses caused by natural hazards and advising policymakers in the design of disaster [...]
The ‘yam’ phone: putting the brakes on insurance penetration in Africa
Poor consumer tech literacy, low technology penetration and low disposable incomes are three challenges facing insurance brokers, insurers and reinsur [...]
Banking regulator rallies Kenya’s financial sector into sustainability strategies
Kenya’s banking regulator has directed lenders to include climate risk management in their business models, in a move that is likely to spread to othe [...]