Tag: Editor's Pick
PODCAST: Is there really a skills gap or could the insurance industry do more to help itself?
In the latest of our podcast series, Africa Ascending Bites, Udai Patel, CEO of Afro-Asian Insurance Services, and Liz Booth, editorial director o [...]
Uganda insurers, brokers urged to join forces to unlock untapped market
Uganda’s insurance industry must move beyond the traditional relationship between insurers and brokers, which has largely revolved around commissions [...]
Global financial fragmentation could push up reinsurance costs for African insurers
African insurers could face higher reinsurance costs and reduced access to international risk-sharing capacity as geopolitical tensions, regulatory di [...]
Closing Africa’s climate insurance protection gap: Lessons, challenges and opportunities for Ghana’s insurance industry
Climate change is no longer a distant environmental concern for Africa. It is increasingly an economic, social and financial risk that affects hou [...]
Why AI success in African reinsurance hinges on people
Your board approves an investment in artificial intelligence (AI). The budget is available, a technology partner has been selected, and the busine [...]
VIDEO: Agriculture, health and motor key to greater success for Africa’s insurers
Hillary Maina Wachinga, group managing director of Kenya Reinsurance, talks about the way that finding solutions on agriculture, health and motor [...]
PODCAST: Should insurers worry about supply chain continuity across Africa?
In the next of the Africa Ascending Bite Sized podcasts, Udai Patel, CEO of Afro-Asian Insurance Services, talks to Liz Booth about the continuous [...]
Africa’s microinsurance market needs more than innovation to scale
Global catastrophe losses were some US$269 billion back in 2023, according to the Swiss Re Institute, with only some 40% insured, leaving some $16 [...]
How can insurance reduce the risk of drought for hydropower producers?
A new brief for action has called on the insurance market to play its part in reducing risks for hydropower players in the face of drought across [...]
Agricultural insurance gap puts Nigeria’s food security initiatives at risk
Nigeria’s efforts to strengthen agricultural insurance through regulatory reforms are raising hopes of wider protection for farmers, but high premiums [...]