Tag: Feature
Fitch launches ESG dashboard for financial institutions
Fitch Ratings has launched an interactive ESG dashboard for financial institutions; a tool that shows the distribution of Fitch's ESG Relevance Scores [...]
Diong takes over at ARC
Ibrahima Cheikh Diong has taken over leadership of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group, following his unanimous election by the ARC Conference of Pa [...]
Continental Re to build its agricultural operations
Continental Reinsurance has selected the Agritask risk management platform to enhance its agricultural reinsurance operations.
Dr Femi Oyetunji (pi [...]
Warning on sustainable investments
Asset owners, including insurers, looking to prioritise sustainability should ensure their investments are not supporting asset management firms that [...]
VIDEO: African insurers forced to act fast in face of Covid-19
African insurers have been pushed to think about things they had known they should consider but which had been pushed to the back of the [...]
Global resilience hit hard by Covid-19 pandemic, but insurance has key role for future
The Covid-19 pandemic is expected to reduce global macroeconomic resilience by about 20% in 2020 from 2019 levels, according to the latest annual Swis [...]
Rebuilding Africa and strengthening its resilience against future economic shocks
After demonstrating its resilience during the ebola outbreak and the global financial crisis, Africa is once again facing a severe test of its strengt [...]
Tough competition is threatening African insurers’ sustainability
Players in the insurance sector have been urged to rethink their predatory pricing strategies as they are hampering the growth of the insurance sector [...]
ILRI to launch livestock insurance for Sahel and Horn of Africa
Nairobi-headquartered International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is launching an index-based livestock insurance for the Sahel and the Horn of [...]
Willis signs deal on disease modelling
The Willis Research Network (WRN) has agreed a new partnership with Metabiota, a risk analytics organisation that specialises in infectious diseases m [...]