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
There is growing consensus that the UAE insurance market is not at its best, and operators need to take the initiative to put the sector on the right track before seeking any regulatory intervention. Meanwhile, the larger players can help by leading by example to create a healthy and profitable business environment. These were some of the concerns aired at a recent MEIR roundtable on the UAE insurance market.
Mr Barry Greenberg of BSA Ahmad Bin Hezeem & Associates LLP assesses the UAE Insurance Brokerage Regulations nearly two years after their enactment, and how they have reformed the market.
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The UAE is one of the first insurance markets in the region to adopt standards based on Solvency II. Mr Fadi B Nader of Levant Law Practice examines the new rules.
Mr Abdo Rahi of the Lebanese Credit Insurer (LCI) looks at how trade credit insurance can support the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which form the backbone of the economy in the UAE.
The Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has introduced the regulatory, commercial and legal framework needed in a thriving financial community. Mr David Parker of Berwin Leighton Paisner examines the draft insurance proposals and looks at whether the ADGM will establish itself as a real competitor to the DIFC.
Recent regulatory changes are likely to increase the pressure on the UAE's takaful operators, but for those capable of adapting, there are significant opportunities, says Mr Peter Hodgins of Clyde & Co.