Tag: Editor's Pick
Business interruption still keeps business leaders awake at night
Business interruption risks and supply chain resilience top the risk list for African CEOs and senior business leaders, according to the annual survey [...]
IDF report highlights need for insurance sector to harness technology
The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) has called for better use of technology to close the protection gap, in a move that would help African economies [...]
VIDEO: Why insurers should factor climate risk into their strategy
Nigel Brook, partner at Clyde & Co LLP, discusses the growing impetus from regulators across the world for insurers to adopt climate resilienc [...]
Building resilience after a major catastrophe
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has produced this blog, looking at the ways in which countries are better preparing for the next major catastrop [...]
Video: A definition of sustainable insurers
Elias Omondi, an actuary at Kenya’s Insurance Regulatory Authority, provides the regulator’s definition of sustainable insurance [...]
Video: Winning the business case to invest in new markets
How can insurance become affordable to those who don’t have a dollar a day to buy it? Jeremy Leach, CEO of Inclusivity Solutions, argues there is [...]
VIDEO: Suggestions for action on ESG
In the last of a series of three interviews, Cassim Hansa of Continental Re offers some suggestions for action on ESG issues. [...]
Ratings agency launches ESG heatmap
Fitch Ratings has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) 'heatmap' covering 29 different sub-sectors for financial institutions, to pr [...]
Banks join insurers in resilience agenda
The CEO of JP Morgan’s global transportation group Andrian Dacy has reminded us: “There is not one institutional investor in the west that is not thin [...]
World less resilient
The world economy is less resilient now than in 2007 at the onset of the global financial crisis, according to Macroeconomic Resilience Indices develo [...]