Middle East Insurance Review (MEIR)
Middle East Insurance Review (MEIR) remains the strongest industry publication on the ground servicing MENA as well as the broader African markets.
MEIR is uniquely positioned as we cover three major markets – the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
We are the ONLY publication that is privileged to be the official media of all the major industry events in the MENA region – such as GAIF, FAIR, AIO, Sharm Rendezvous – as well as those in Asia. Plus, we remain the only magazine with a dedicated section on takaful, putting us in pole position as the trusted source of reliable and up-to-date news on both the conventional and takaful fronts.
Middle East Insurance Review also has in its portfolio “Africa eWeekly” where you can keep up-to-date with the latest insurance news from Africa; and the “Middle East Insurance Industry Awards (MIIA)” that has played an instrumental part in raising industry standards in the twelve years since it was first launched. The Awards are regarded as the benchmark for excellence in the market and touted as the Oscars for the industry. With a high-level judging panel, as well as a transparent judging process audited by EY, the MIIA has become a highly-anticipated industry event.
www.meinsurancereview.com
AM BEST
Founded in 1899, AM Best is the world’s largest credit rating agency specialising in the insurance industry.
AM Best credit rating services assesses the creditworthiness of and/or reports on over 16,000 insurance companies worldwide. Our commentary, research and analysis provide additional insight.
With offices in the US, London, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai, the company does business in over 100 countries. AM Best expanded its coverage in MENA in the last two decades, becoming the pre-eminent rating agency for (re)insurers in the region. Our MENA, South and Central Asia office, established in the Dubai International Financial Centre, serves clients throughout the region and develops new relationships with both start-ups and established companies.
AM Best has been awarded more than 20 international ‘Best Rating Agency’ accolades between 2009 to 2025.
Our Insight, Your Advantage™
www.ambest.com
Chedid Re
Established in 1998, Chedid Re has since powered people, partners, and pathways in the reinsurance sector. With more than 400 experts based across our global offices – in Riyadh, Paris, London, Limassol, Dubai, Casablanca, Beirut, and Abidjan – our commitment is to go where our partners grow. This promise stands at the heart of our journey, delivered with the support of 400-plus insurance companies in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.
Over the past 25-plus years, we have forged enduring alliances with some of the world’s most prominent reinsurance players, including as a registered Lloyd’s broker since 2015. Our customer centricity, product and service innovation, and power partnerships have consistently ranked us among the world’s top 20 reinsurance brokers.
Our portfolio has kept pace with our expansionary drive, today covering reinsurance, retrocession, treaty, and facultative products and services. Under the umbrella of our parent company, Chedid Capital, a leading investment group in the Middle East and Africa’s (re)insurance sector, we continue to invest in technology and talent as the key pillars to our future-proof growth.
www.chedidre.com
Cigna
Cigna Healthcare is a global health service company dedicated to improving the health and vitality of everyone they serve. With a heritage of over 250 years, Cigna Healthcare maintains a global sales capability in 30 countries and jurisdictions, employing over 72,000 people who service more than 164m customer relationships.
Operating for more than 19 years in the Middle East region, Cigna Healthcare serves the GCC markets and Lebanon through its locally regulated entities. The company delivers both health and wellness services to individuals, employers, and government entities in the region.
With a deep-rooted understanding of the African continent for over 60 years, servicing over 250,000 members, Cigna Healthcare services corporates through direct partnerships with locally licensed insurers in each market, providing health insurance for local companies and multinationals.
www.cigna-me.com
GIG
Established in 1962 in Kuwait, Gulf Insurance Group is one of the largest and most diversified insurance groups in the Middle East and North Africa with operations in life, non-life and takaful insurance. As a regional insurance powerhouse, the group enjoys a strong competitive market position in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt and excellent operational footprints in UAE, KSA, Turkey, Algeria, Qatar, Oman, Iraq and Lebanon with reported consolidated assets of $4.01 bn as of 31 December 2024.
Over 60 years of operational excellence, GIG has established itself as a leader and pioneer in the insurance industry by offering innovative and high-quality products and services that are tailored to meet the unique needs of our valued stakeholders. With more than 100 branches, +4,100 employees and +3.5m customers, GIG is delivering unprecedented growth for a sustainable future.
GIG has attained a competitive edge in its markets through the implementation of a comprehensive approach involving the latest IT services, innovation in products and distribution, strong customer relations management and robust enterprise risk management. Furthermore, GIG utilises the best standards in corporate governance, prudent underwriting practices, and its decentralised business model focusing on human capital development and digitisation.
GIG holds a Financial Strength Rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of ‘a+’ (Excellent) having a Stable outlook from AM Best Europe – Rating Services, a Financial Strength Rating of ‘A’ with Positive outlook from Standard & Poor’s and an Insurance Financial Strength Rating (IFSR) of ‘A2’ from Moody’s Ratings carrying a Stable outlook.
GIG is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings, a Canadian holding company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, which, through its subsidiaries, is primarily engaged in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance and the associated investment management.
www.gulfinsgroup.com
Lloyd's
Lloyd’s is the world’s leading marketplace for insurance and reinsurance. Through the collective intelligence and expertise of the market’s underwriters and brokers, we’re sharing risk to create a braver world.
The Lloyd’s market offers the resources, capability, and insight to develop new and innovative products for customers in any industry, on any scale, in more than 200 territories.
We’re made up of more than 50 leading insurance companies, over 380 registered Lloyd’s brokers and a global network of over 4,000 local coverholders. Behind the Lloyd’s market is the Corporation: an independent organisation and regulator working to maintain the market’s successful reputation and operation.
We’re working to build solutions for the most current and prevalent threats. As chair of the Insurance Task Force for HM King Charles III’s Sustainable Markets Initiative, Lloyd’s is bringing the industry together to insure the transition to net zero. Our research community is pooling expertise from across the industry to provide cutting edge insight on systemic risks from climate change to cyber security.
And through our digital-led strategy, The Future at Lloyd’s, we’re making it easier and cheaper to place, price and process cover in the Lloyd’s market.
www.lloyds.com
Marsh
Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan, is the world’s top insurance broker and risk advisor. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of over $24bn and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.
www.marsh.com
Nextcare
Nextcare, an Allianz Partners company, specializes in providing complete health insurance management and administration services to healthcare payers, including self-insured employers.
With a 20-year track record and business pedigree, Nextcare provides peace of mind. A passion for excellence connects us to our clients, who rely on us for their healthcare management needs. A regional presence with global reach, we deliver the perfect balance between unrivalled customer service and maximum cost optimization.
We strive to deliver seamless high-quality customer relations while rigorously managing costs and optimizing performance: both yours and ours. A digitally transformative operation, we empower your organization with market-leading digital solutions that support the secure, swift and efficient sharing of medical records.
Our next-generation future administration model is a health ecosystem orchestrator that connects horizontally and vertically with other Allianz assets and partners. Spanning the entire patient journey, it seamlessly integrates offline and online activities, supporting informed choices and managed care.
Nextcare speaks your language when it comes to insurance, IT, compliance, legal, risk, mitigation auditing, and more. At your disposal 24/7, we directly connect our clients to an extensive network of solutions providers.
Lifelong partners in health management – yesterday, today and tomorrow – our customer relationships are rooted in transparency and built on trust.
www.nextcarehealth.com
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RGA
Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) is a leader in the global life and health reinsurance industry, with approximately $3.9tn of life reinsurance in force and assets of $118.7bn as of 31 December 2024. With operations in key markets around the world, RGA supports domestic and multinational clients in more than 100 countries.
RGA is at the forefront of the industry, recognised for deep technical expertise in risk and capital management, innovative approaches, and an unwavering commitment to its clients. RGA specialises in individual and group life and health reinsurance and financial solutions. In collaboration with clients, RGA also provides complementary offerings to enhance their success, including facultative underwriting, product development, and data-driven digital solutions.
For more than 50 years, RGA has partnered with insurers to identify opportunities, address challenges, and develop competitive products and services. RGA puts this philosophy of partnership into practice every day, for every client, and in every region where it does business. Clients know that when they work with RGA, they are joining forces with industry experts dedicated to achieving results. From advances in underwriting to market-first capital structures, RGA helps clients improve their ability to assess risk profitably and meet the demands of a dynamic industry.
www.rgare.com