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Read the latest edition of AIR and MEIR as an Interactive e-book

Sep 2025

September-Home

Editor's Letter

What cycles up, must cycle down

Reinsurance

Middle East: Reinsurance capacity strained

Capacity turns selective and rates harden as reinsurers grow cautious

Navigating geoeconomic fragmentation: Asia's reinsurance leaders address new world order challenges

Global reinsurance brokers stay ahead with digital tools but talent scarcity persists

Rising Nat CAT events in MENA keep reinsurers on their toes

FAIR 2025: Spotlight on resilient growth in emerging insurance markets

Market Profile

Kuwait

Technology for a better future

Kuwait's L&H growth drivers include population growth and digitalisation

Market spotlight

Tunisia

Regulations on the right track

Takaful gains ground in Tunisia

Insurance

General

Geopolitics reshape aviation underwriting landscape

View from India: Insurers can help control antimicrobial resistance

Navigating the nuances of measuring power generation BI losses across the Middle East

The future of insurance is being shaped in the Gulf

Sustainable growth a driver of an MGA's strategy

Intermediaries can bring back trust in livestock insurance

News

MENA

IMEA: Composite insurance rates decline by 5% in 2Q2025

Algeria: Insurance market premiums rose 13% year-on-year in 1Q2025

Egypt: Insurance federation urges industry to develop new products to cover AI risks

Jordan: Market premiums reach US$542m in Jan-May 2025

Kuwait: Kuwait Re's ratings upgraded on sustained improvement in operating results

Lebanon: Regulatory reforms introduced to stimulate the insurance sector

Morocco: Resilient insurance sector maintains positive momentum

Oman: Insurers count declines amid mergers and few new entrants

Qatar: QIC earns MSCI's highest ESG rating

Saudi Arabia: Advisory council raises proposals for improvements in insurance sector

Turkiye: Insurance association names 8 priorities for the next 5 years

UAE: Salama partners with Policybazaar to expand access to life takaful insurance solutions

UAE: ADNIC partners with Sheikh Zayed housing programme to provide life insurance for UAE nationals

Global

Global insurance capacity expands while systemic threats escalate

Insurance market for hydrogen could exceed US$3bn by 2030

Global Nat CAT losses of over US$100bn to continue for at least one more year

IAIS collaborates with the World Bank Group on Nat CAT protection gap paper

Takaful

ESG sukuk market to surpass US$60bn by end-2026

Global: IFSB adopts Shariah governance standard and issues guidance on crisis preparedness in takaful sector

Algeria: Takaful business surges from a modest base

Bangladesh: Regulator to introduce Shariah-compliant version of universal pension scheme

Indonesia: Regulator sets halal industry target for takaful sector

Somalia: Central Bank introduces licensing procedures for takaful operators

UAE: Sukoon Takaful revenue doubles in 1H

Product and Alliances

Products and alliances

Diary

People on the move

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Magazine Table of Contents

Reinsurance

Rising Nat CAT events in MENA keep reinsurers on their toes

By Jimmy John -

Source: Middle East Insurance Review | Sep 2025

MENA reinsurers are facing the heat from frequent Nat CAT events in the region and the prospects of an uncertain future.

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