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Broker appoints three new African country heads
Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has appointed three new country managers after longstanding managers all left in early 2021.
Carole Epée becomes country [...]
ASR launches PVT capacity and adds underwriter to team
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), the Pan-African focused reinsurance group, has launched war, political violence and terrorism (PVT) capacity to add to i [...]
Energy transition likely to fuel unrest, warns Verisk Maplecroft
Algeria, Iraq and Nigeria will be among the first casualties of a slow-motion wave of political instability that will engulf an array of oil-producing [...]
More to ESG than meets the eye
A successful implementation of South Africa’s Administration and Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act (AARTO) offers a peek at how lawmakers migh [...]
Double triggers and risk pools are central to innovative pandemic covers
Global reinsurers are leading the charge to develop pandemic risk solutions that will better respond to the growing frequency and severity of infectio [...]
Insurers must listen to clients to discover the nature of real risks
Stakeholders from across the insurance world, including leading African insurance experts, came together to learn, create, develop and implement strat [...]
Register now for the UN PSI Africa summit
Registration has opened for the forthcoming fourth UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) Africa summit, to be held in Nairobi and online on 22 [...]
Against the ropes – managing risk for a sustainable African future
A country’s ability to manage risks across the private and public sectors is central to creating a sustainable future.
The Institute of Risk Manage [...]
African insurers must digitalise to win customers
Africa’s insurance industry lags way behind telcos in terms of penetration across African markets, because it has been unwilling to leave traditional [...]
Businesses turning from board to external experts
As the Covid-19 pandemic places unprecedented demand on the global economy, businesses are increasingly turning away from their board and peers when i [...]