Tag: Editor's Pick
Africa Ascending Ep 7: ESG – a buzzword or a necessity?
Welcome to Africa Ascending, a podcast series looking at key issues affecting the African business environment and its impact on the insurance sector [...]
African insurers must put data and technology in the journey of closing the protection gap, suggests Deloitte
The African insurance industry stands at an inflection point where resilience, adaptability, and innovation will dictate its trajectory, Deloitte [...]
Increased insurance uptake offers path to resilient disaster management in South African municipalities, suggests new report
South Africa’s National Treasury has suggested that greater uptake of insurance would help its municipalities survive a severe natural disaster.
In [...]
Opinion: Tackling urban flooding in Accra with innovative risk solution
The Insurance Development Forum (IDF), through its Sovereign and Humanitarian Solutions (SHS) Working Group, is spearheading a Tripartite Project [...]
Tax brinkmanship and trade tariff war test South African insurers’ resilience
The executive teams at many of South Africa’s major financial institutions are no doubt incensed over National Treasury’s last-minute recant of a half [...]
Declining lapse rate signals renewed confidence in Zimbabwe’s life insurance sector
Zimbabwe insurers witnessed a low lapse rate in the life insurance sector during the final quarter of 2024, showing that fewer policyholders were allo [...]
Call for Ugandan insurers to boost local expertise in oil and gas sector
Experts have underscored the need to strengthen the financial capacity of members of the Insurance Consortium for Oil and Gas Uganda (ICOGU) to fully [...]
Nigeria’s insurance reform bill will address current realities and evolving needs, suggests insurers association
The Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) has commended the recent passage of the Nigerian Insurance Industry Reform Bill 2024 in the Senate, describing [...]
VIDEO: Leaving it to machines to handle claims is not enough
There must be a balance between using machine learning to handle claims and having human empathy for the claimant. But, as Nelson Matheus, chief cla [...]
Insurers and governments need to work together to deliver a sustainable Africa in the face of climate change
The insurance industry can play a crucial role in helping African countries, businesses and individuals build resilience and adapt to climate chan [...]