Mr Bob Pain - Investors Trust Assurance SPC: Expanding across the board
Qatar - Facing the headwinds
Qatar - Double-digit growth set to continue
Qatar - Qatar's mandatory health insurance: to be continued?
Qatar - Multaqa Qatar at 10
Qatar - Takaful market profile: Qatar's shifting regulatory landscape
Frontier Markets: Reinsurers get ready for Iran
Reinsurance Renewals - Pricing floor remains elusive
Reinsurance Renewals - Tips to improve your renewal process
Financial Centres - Lloyd's Middle East - One year on
Financial Centres - Bermuda and the MENA region: Positioned for growth together
Financial Centres - MEIF: Regulatory alignment needed for GCC
Preparing for pandemics
D&O: Valued protection in challenging economic times
Investment strategies for takaful
Legal - Retakaful: A new Exposure Draft on retakaful
Middle East News - Around 900 sign up for 31st GAIF Conference
Middle East: Oil unlikely to recover to US$100+/barrel till 2020 - OAPEC
Middle East: Health insurance growth depends on govt action, says expert
Middle East News - Bahrain: Standardised auto insurance policy to be ready by mid-year
Middle East News - Bahrain: Arig streamlines operations
Middle East News - Bahrain: Trust Re offers aviation facultative reinsurance
Middle East News - Iran: Reinsurer seeks rating after sanctions removal
Middle East News - Iran: More coverage available for oil shipments
Middle East News - Kuwait: Insurers work with govt on app to report auto accidents
Middle East News - Kuwait: Govt to make liability insurance mandatory
Middle East News - Oman: Oman Qatar Insurance plans IPO by end-2017
Middle East News - Oman: Commerce chamber pushes for agriculture covers
Middle East News - Qatar: QIC launches new website for personal lines
Middle East News - Turkey: Premiums surge 19% to over US$10 bln in 2015
Middle East News - Turkey: Insurers concerned about rising motor third-party losses
Middle East News - UAE: 1 in 4 locals save for retirement - survey
Middle East News - UAE: 97% of fire losses at The Address covered by reinsurers
Middle East News - UAE: Dubai considers health insurance for the disabled
Middle East News - UAE: ADNIC's 2015 loss widens to US$91 mln
Middle East News - UAE: 3 in 4 SMEs are insured - survey
Middle East News - UAE: Huge potential in aviation for local insurers - GCAA
Middle East News - UAE: Galaxy Insurance Brokers opens Dubai office
Global News - Over two-thirds of insurance CEOs changing the way they use technology - PwC
Global News - January winter weather causes US$4 bln in economic losses - Aon Benfield
Global Events - Palestine: Apex holds specialty covers workshop
Africa News - Algeria: Motor insurers to clear 5-year claims backlog by end-2016
Africa News - Egypt: Govt mulling over feedback before finalising health insurance bill
Africa News - Egypt: Royal Insurance to increase capital to US$10.2 mln
Africa News - Morocco: Agriculture Ministry developing new farm insurance model
Africa News - Nigeria: AXA buys 8% stake in Africa Internet Group
Africa News - South Africa: Liberty acquires controlling stake in Ugandan insurer
Africa News - Prudential enters Zambia by acquiring Professional Life Assurance
Takaful News - Bahrain: Takaful International partners with TAKAUD
Takaful News - Malaysia: CIMB launches haj product
Takaful News - Takaful Malaysia sees net profit rise 11%
Takaful News - Saudi Arabia: Insurers' combined profits up 13%
Takaful News - Saudi Arabia: Panel to look into motor premium hikes
Takaful News - Saudi Arabia: Health premiums up 20%
Takaful News - Saudi Re's net profit falls to US$28,335
Takaful News - Saudi Arabia: Work-related injuries highest in construction
Takaful News - Global: Cobalt Underwriting and Chaucer partner to offer Shariah-compliant political violence product
Diary of Events
People on the move
Mr Abhijit Singh of Solidarity Group Holding provides strategies for takaful investment managers’ portfolios to hold ground under various scenarios.
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The Islamic Financial Services Board’s Exposure Draft 18 contains key principles and standards of best practice for retakaful activities. Ms Susan Dingwall and Mr Martin Schneider of Norton Rose Fulbright LLP zero in on the distinct features of retakaful operations which have shaped the Draft, while summarising the Board’s guiding principles on retakaful.