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15 leadership insights
ADGM: Insurance growth requires dialogue on potential developments
ADNIC: Continued evolution of general insurance
Badri: Love, actuary
BSA: Regulatory and legal frameworks in flux
Chedid Re: Insurers likely to ditch legacy systems for the cloud
CII: Global qualifications vital as regulations increase
Cigna: Future-proofing the GCC's health insurance sector
ESKADENIA: Pandemic both boon and bane for InsurTech
HDFC: Balance life between prudence and aggression
Lloyd's: Pandemic offers insurers an opportunity to build back better
Marsh: Digital adoption crucial for reach and efficiency
Trust Re: Achieving reinsurance growth in the region
Watania: Social media and digital tools are a game changer for takaful
Women's World Banking: Insurance growth may lie with low-income women
Zurich: Responsiveness and digitalisation to grow life
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General
MENA insurance industry shrugs off pandemic woes for positive growth
Turkey market grew in 2020 despite pandemic
Life & health
Structuring UAE health plans for employee satisfaction
Managing employee benefits for remote workers
AI and health insurance
Egypt
Biggest-ever insurance legislation changes
Positive economic growth spills over into insurance
Construction builds up non-life growth
Growth through health
Opportunities abound amid shifting market dynamics
Reinsurance: The missing link
InsurTechs focus on SMEs and uninsured
Takaful recovers strongly
Malaysia's takaful landscape
View from India
Simplifying the claims process
The time is now for actuaries in MENA
MENA
MENA: Sharm-FAIR conference to tackle the post-pandemic era
Algeria: Biggest agricultural insurer posts net profit of $13m in 2020
Bahrain: gig Bahrain launches revamped mobile application and website
Egypt: Work on the first actuarial life tables to start in early Sep
Kuwait: DHAMAN appoints Markaz to manage auction of strategic investor shares
Lebanon: Insurers pay out less than 10% of claims 12 months after Beirut Port blast
Morocco: Bancassurance channel grows marginally, increases market contribution in 2020
Oman: Calls renewed for Nat CAT insurance pool
Qatar: Qatar Insurance Group in the black for 1H2021
Turkey: Gallagher takes majority share in Istanbul-based specialty broker
UAE: Auto claims jump by nearly 45% in recent months
Global
Global: Improved results for major European reinsurers in 1H
UK: Government launches insurance scheme to support the events industry
US: 30% rise in frequency of large wildfires since the 2000s
Gallagher to take over WTW's treaty reinsurance brokerage operations
Takaful
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Re profit up 89% in 1H
GCC: Profitability momentum for takaful operators in doubt
UAE: Watania posts positive 1H2021 financial results
UAE: SALAMA reports net profit of over $10m for 1H2021
Cyber criminals target remote workers, critical infrastructure and corner stores
UK: Deteriorating mental health and cyber security are top people risks
US: Agriculture insurance claims surge due to climate change
Millions more at risk of flooding
Crop insurance and unintended consequences
Coal industry being hauled over the coals
The cost of phishing attacks triples between 2018 to 2021
Survey examines effect of pandemic on commercial insurance
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