Tag: Editor's Pick
VIDEO: Will artificial intelligence replace underwriters and brokers within the next decade?
Sam Norman Sali, managing director of Visal Reinsurance Brokers, and Cole Baidoo, chief technology officer at ALX Holdings, examine the rapid adva [...]
PODCAST: Is the Middle East going to become the hub for Africa?
In this episode of the Africa Ascending Bites podcast series, Udai Patel of Afro-Asian Insurance Services, and Liz Booth of Africa Ahead, discuss [...]
Why Africa’s insurers must rethink how they choose reinsurance solutions
For insurers, reinsurance is a necessary backstop. They use reinsurance to transfer risk, stabilise earnings and protect capital. The place of rei [...]
Africa’s re/insurers at the crossroads of geopolitics and the AI revolution
Africa’s insurers and reinsurers will play a significant role in enabling the reindustrialisation that is taking place as today’s apparently cyclical [...]
Carbon credit insurance rises amid scrutiny of Africa’s offset market
Carbon insurance is emerging as a growing niche in global climate finance. Insurers and reinsurers are beginning to price risks linked to the reliabil [...]
How Nigeria’s startups are reinventing insurance for Gen Zs
For many young Nigerians, insurance has long been viewed as a product for older people, corporate workers, or vehicle owners. But a new generation of [...]
Why technology alone cannot fix Uganda’s low insurance penetration
The insurance offer had appeared on Ogwal Geoffrey Blair’s phone so many times that he no longer noticed it. Every day, the 33-year-old passionate cyc [...]
Forum stresses role of brokerage in boosting insurance uptake in CIMA zone
Insurance brokers in the CIMA region, united within the Inter-African Federation of Insurance Advisers (FIAC), wish to play their full part in imp [...]
VIDEO: Innovation alone won’t be enough for future success, warn regulators
Speaking in the regulatory session at the African Insurance Organisation’s 52nd General Assembly in Cairo, regulators from Bermuda and across the [...]
PODCAST: AIO conference timing perfect as sector faces challenges
The Gulf war and flooding across the continent have given the African insurance sector plenty to work on in the first half of 2026, whic [...]