Editorial
Orient Insurance: An appetite for regional growth
Emirates Insurance Company: Strengthening the core
Takaful Emarat: Expanding takaful in the UAE
Nexus debuts in Asia
News Special - MENA Insurance CEO Club: Public Forum reaffirms its thought leadership role
News Special - Finalists of 2nd Middle East Insurance Awards announced
Cover Story - DIFC: Reinsurance in the DIFC: A market coming into its own
UAE: One in four deaths attributed to heart attacks
Country Profile - UAE: Finding sustainable success
Country Profile - UAE: UAE insurance brokers' market: No longer a "Wild West"
Country Profile - UAE: Regulations leading the way
Country Profile - UAE: Supporting SME growth with credit insurance
Country Profile - UAE: Abu Dhabi Global Market: Emerging from the DIFC's shadow?
Takaful Country Profile: UAE - Takaful in the UAE: Time for a change?
Takaful Feature - Healthcare: Treating health takaful
Takaful Rendezvous: Takaful players seek progress
9th Middle East Healthcare Insurance Conference: Health insurers need to innovate to stay relevant
FAIR 50th Anniversary: Time is ripe for enhancing regional cooperation
World Risk 2015: Region advancing in risk management
Special Feature - VAT: VAT and the impact on financial services
Risk Management Feature - Embracing IoT, sector by sector
MENA & GCC - MENA: GAIF to discuss setting up Arab risk management council
MENA & GCC: MENA region remains attractive to reinsurers - A.M. Best
MENA & GCC: GCC insurance industry in transition to become internationally competitive
MENA & GCC: Fosun reportedly in talks to buy RSA's Middle East business
MENA & GCC: GCC - Regulators need to step up their game - S&P
MENA & GCC: GCC - Salaries forecast to rise 5% on average in 2016 - Aon Hewitt
Jordan: Top 5 profitable insurers make up half of industry's earnings
Kuwait: Warba makes US$964K gain on sale of Kuwait Re stake
Lebanon: Premiums flat in 1H
Lebanon: AROPE Insurance launches mobile micro life plan
Oman: Insurance market to see steady single-digit growth - BMI Research
Oman: Poor wiring is main cause of fire in Sultanate
Turkey: Annuity regulation comes into effect
Turkey: Treasury strengthens solvency of insurance and private pension companies
UAE: IA to launch new regulations
UAE: Bermuda-based investment firm opens in Dubai
UAE: Gap between educational aspirations and funding
Global: Risk managers' influence growing - ACE report
Global: Women's market represents trillion-dollar opportunity
Africa: Three nations to join African Trade Insurance
Egypt: Minimum capital to at least double to US$15-19 mln under draft law
Egypt: Central bank conducts financial inclusion survey
Gulf Insurance Group expands in Egypt
Morocco: Premiums grew by 6% to US$1.7 bln in 1H
South Africa: JLT acquires risk consulting firm
South Africa: Hollard Insurance to acquire Regent for US$171 mln
Tunisia: World Bank calls for auto database for insurers
Uganda: Niko rebrands as Sanlam General Insurance
Malaysia: Allianz Life still keen on takaful
Egypt: Wethaq Takaful aims to grow 13% next year
Saudi Arabia: Higher tariffs, new business to boost contributions by 25% this year - S&P
Saudi Arabia: Insurers raise third-party auto rates
Saudi Arabia: 10% annual growth expected till 2019 - BMI
UAE: Takaful Emarat to raise capital by US$14 mln
UAE: London and Dubai join hands to develop takaful
Global: World takaful market to expand 80% to US$52.5 bln over 5 years
Global: Islamic finance market set to almost double to US$3.25 tln by 2020 - Thomson Reuters
Swiss Re holds life & health conference in Dubai
Takaful seminar held in Istanbul
Diary
People on the move
The Takaful Rendezvous in KL served as a self-check for the takaful industry both locally in Malaysia as well as around the world. While the industry is certainly now a mainstay in the insurance world, there is room for improvement as many takaful companies mature from childhood to adolescence.
Innovation and advanced technologies are bringing huge changes in the health industry in the Middle East, resulting in vast opportunities for insurers. They will need to align their business strategies with the changing market needs, said speakers at the 9th Middle East Healthcare Insurance Conference in Dubai.
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With the region's influence on the rise, insurance markets in African and Asian nations were urged to cooperate more closely together at the 24th Conference of the Federation of Afro-Asian Insurers and Reinsurers (FAIR) in Cairo.
Risk management in the Middle East is slowly gaining more attention, as evidenced by the growing number of events like the World Risk 2015 Conference in Dubai, which discussed ERM and threats unique to the region.