Algeria's life brimming with potential: Macirvie
Waiting for the green light: Iranian Re
Addressing the growing needs for specialty covers: Cogent Insurance Brokers
Expanding the MENA Re footprint: MENA Re Underwriters
Motor - Big Data can help turn motor market around
Motor - Cars of tomorrow: Fewer accidents, costlier repairs
Motor - Managing work-related road risk a strategic business decision
Jordan - M&A looks likelier as reality begins to bite
Jordan - Life & personal lines: Waiting to bear fruit
Jordan - Regulator in transition
Pensions - Pension funds: Getting the oversight right for better returns
Savings & Retirement - Retirement planning a tool for talent retention
Health Insurance - Big Data integral to modern day health underwriting
GAIF in Beirut - GAIF keeps region's insurance flame burning bright
Legal Page - Damages for late payment of (re)insurance claims
Strategic Global View - Digitisation: A potential game changer for innovation
Sporting Events - Reducing risk of organising major sporting events
Credit Risk - Trade credit insurance to bolster UAE trade in volatile times
Market Profile - Bangladesh: Lack of takaful regulation limits potential
Feature - Takaful sector assessed as relatively robust
Market Analysis - Re-balancing the takaful equation in the Middle East
Middle East - MENA economic growth to pick up slightly to 2.9% in 2016
Middle East: CFOs lack risk appetite in current business climate
Middle East: Hotels in region lack supplier liability insurance
Bahrain: National health insurance scheme to start in 2019
Bahrain: Trust Re's 1Q profits up 8% to US$8.4 mln
Kuwait: Regulator pushing to enact law this year
Kuwait: Gulf Insurance Group buys 90% stake of Turkish insurer
Oman: Insurance sector sees premiums grow by 7% in 1Q
Qatar: Draft health insurance law completed
Qatar: Property insurance to reach US$1.8 bln by 2019
Qatar: Traffic accidents can now be reported at insurance firms
Turkey: Insurance industry shows impressive 1Q growth
Turkey: Insurers face risk of inadequate reserves
UAE: Composite insurers to segregate life and non-life ops by August
UAE: Insurers urged to be ready for surge in health insurance demand
UAE: DHA extends grace period for mandatory health insurance scheme
UAE: Daman mulls plan to reward those with healthy lifestyles
UAE: Auto insurance aggregator launched
African Risk Capacity aims to boost disaster cover to US$2 bln by 2020
Algeria: Insurers to settle auto claims within 8 weeks starting Sept
Egypt: Insurers recommend mandatory fire cover for shops
Kenyan insurers benefit greatly from Treasury budget proposals
Morocco: Lloyd's keen on presence in Casablanca Finance City
Nigeria: A.M. Best upgrades ratings of Africa Re
Tunisia: Finance Ministry explores liberalising auto insurance
Zimbabwe: Health insurers owe private doctors US$220 mln
Global - IAIS updates assessment methodology for G-SIIs
Global - AIG joins the crowdfunding market
Global - Zurich sells businesses in Morocco and Taiwan
Takaful News - A.M. Best affirms ratings of Emirates Retakaful (B++), positive outlook
Takaful News - Egypt: Takaful business made up 12% of total insurance mart in 1Q
Takaful News - Indonesia: Regulator to promote Islamic REITs to attract Middle East investors
Takaful News - Syarikat Takaful cautiously optimistic on earnings outlook
Takaful News - Oman: Takaful commands 9% share of total insurance market
Takaful News - Saudi Arabia: Regulator sets timetable for loss-making insurers to restructure operations
Takaful News - Saudi Arabia: Insurance sector netted US$216 mln in profits in 2015
Takaful News - Saudi Arabia: 2,000 motor loss assessors to be trained
Takaful News - Tunisia: Zitouna Takaful turns operations around in 2015
Reinsurance advanced training for the Lebanese insurance industry
Dubai Chamber organises workshop on trade credit risks
Diary of Events
People on the Move
COVER STORY
Semi-autonomous cars of tomorrow will lead to a gradual transition from high speed to low speed accidents, although claims will become more complex for insurers - requiring increasing levels of technical skill and equipment.
COUNTRY PROFILE
Thinning margins coupled with government incentives for mergers could encourage the insurance sector to consolidate. There are positive signs with the market seeing its first M&A deal in decades earlier this year.
CONFERENCE REPORTS
Despite the the region's political tensions casting a shadow in the run-up to the 31st edition of the GAIF General Conference, the largest bi-annual gathering of Arab insurers and reinsurers once again lived up to its ability to inspire, galvanise...
Creating customer centric strategies and applying modern distribution techniques are some of the main areas insurers need to address for life insurance to succeed in Algeria, says Mr Soufi Mohamed Hakim, Chairman and CEO, Macirvie.
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The Iranian insurance sector lost some of its lustre during the sanctions period but lots of improvement is expected moving forward, says Mr Seyed Mohammad Asoudeh, Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Iranian Reinsurance Co (Iranian Re).
Cogent Insurance Brokers Ltd (CIBL) continues to focus on specialty lines as its niche, while looking to better service the fast growing medical insurance business, explain President Nabil Bazzari, and Partner and Managing Director, Dr Hazem Almadi.
The adoption of Big Data and telematics will be a game changer which can't come soon enough for motor insurers in the Middle East, says Mr Pravar Gautam of Scope Technologies.
Managing work-related road risks is generally not at the top of most risk managers' agenda, but there are business benefits to be realised for organisations who manage this risk effectively.
Life insurance in Jordan has not been growing as rapidly and insurers need to further develop their mechanisms and seek market niches to boost the rate of growth in this vital segment.
With the regulatory and supervisory powers set to be handed over to the Central Bank of Jordan, there are hopes for the industry to scale new heights. We speak to the incumbent regulator, Mrs Lubna Saqr Al-Humoud, Director of the Insurance...
Getting not just the investment side right but also crucially the governance aspect of it, will see pension funds achieve better long-term results.
With mandatory health insurance in Dubai due to be implemented by the end of the year to cover expatriates in the workforce, we look at the savings and retirement equation for expatriates in the GCC.
Big Data in health insurance is a catalyst in modernising the industry and adding a compelling value to healthcare payers, providers and patients.
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP discusses an update to Insurance Act 2015 which obliges swifter payment of claims from (re)insurers, a development of relevance when ceding out to the London market.
The digital transformation of insurance offers unprecedented opportunities for innovative market participants to tackle some fundamental and long-standing industry challenges.
With Olympics fervour building up, we look at the risk management issues that organising large-scale sporting events can give rise to whether in the Middle East or elsewhere.
With business sentiment in the region not at its most buoyant, AIG discusses the importance for companies to protect against counterparty credit risk and preserve cash flow in a challenging environment.
An analysis of the potential and obstacles for takaful growth in a country of 157 million people.
Kuala Lumpur-headquartered Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) assesses the resilience of the takaful market, taking into account external and internal conditions.
A look at the current dynamics behind the sector's growth in the Middle East amid a tough macro environment.