Insurance for good
From the Chairman
Saluting the winners of the 7th Middle East Insurance Industry Awards
Top of her game
2021 Outlook
What's next?
GCC
Positive performance amid the pandemic
Steering the business through challenges
The InsurTech revolution
COVID-19
COVID-19: Through the lens of a chief risk officer
Green shoots visible in the Gulf region
Born in the pandemic: Digital health
Impact of COVID-19: One year on
SMEs
The changing landscape of insurance
Can M&A reshape the takaful sector?
MENA
COVID-19 testing and treatment cost burden in the MENA region
Middle East: Gulf Insurance Group to acquire AXA's Gulf operations for $269m
Algeria: Insurers study creation of insurance scheme for pandemic risks
Bahrain: First insurance platform launched following regulatory sandbox trial
Egypt: Insurers propose pandemic risk pool
Egypt: Federation issues underwriting guide for fire risk
Jordan: Federation examines impact of COVID-19 on insurers
Lebanon: Ministry takes position on Beirut port blast insurance compensation
Lebanon: Sector posts 6% fall in premiums in 1H
Morocco: Govt council approves implementing texts to insurance law relating to decennial liability cover
Qatar: QLM Life & Medical to digitise member engagement, expand provider network
Saudi Arabia: SAMA is renamed Saudi Central Bank
Saudi Arabia: More mergers on the horizon
Saudi Arabia: Amana directors propose capital reduction
Turkey: Regulator continues to cap price increases in motor third party insurance business
Turkey: Technical profit of sector soars 73% in first 9 months
UAE: Drivers in telematics scheme to receive additional discount on motor premiums
UAE: IA sets out new regulation for brokers
Global
Europe: Life insurers adopt predictive analysis for positive business impact
Aon report shows path towards post-COVID-19 future
London well-placed to be global cyber insurance hub after pandemic
Pandemic pools may offer limited benefit to large corporations
Takaful
Global: IFSB publishes FAQs on risk management standard for takaful undertakings
Malaysia: Central bank aims to promote microtakaful under low-cost insurance framework
Saudi Arabia: First comprehensive analysis of kingdom's Islamic finance sector published
Saudi Arabia: Gulf Union-Al-Ahlia merger takes effect
UAE: Aman lays out new 3-year growth plan
Product bites
People on the move
MARKET PROFILE - GCC
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COVER STORY - 2021 Outlook
Market leaders share their predictions for 2021.
FEATURE - COVID-19
The coronavirus has reshaped risk management practices in the Middle East and the global (re)insurance industry. Mr Simon Spurr of International General Insurance (IGI) looks back at how the company dealt with the pandemic as it evolved across its...
A New Year and, we might hope, a new dawn for the Middle East.
When I look back through the archival editions of our insurance publications, I find it to have been an industry content to be pleasantly but boringly static and ‘starchy’, a kind of uniform for risk management when it is interpreted...
Middle East Insurance Review caught up with Takaful Oman Insurance vice chairperson and CEO Sayyida Dr Rawan Al Said to find out her path to success.
The listed GCC insurers demonstrated strong resilience against the impact of COVID-19 to achieve positive growth in both profits and GWP in 9M2020.
InsuranceMarket.ae CEO Avinash Babur shares how his company is improving its value proposition and deploying technology to add material value and meet the needs of customers and underwriting partners amid the tough business environment.
InsurTechs will collaborate with insurers until the regulatory framework allows for independent digital insurance companies to rise up and challenge incumbents, says Mr Walid Daniel Dib of hala.
Economic recovery in the region will depend on the macroeconomic performance of major trade blocks but accelerated measures to expand the non-oil private sectors in the Gulf states will drive growth, says Mr Jean Claus of Euler Hermes GCC.
Dr Sven-Olaf Vathje of Oliver Wyman Middle East and Africa looks at the emerging trends in the digital health landscape and its implications on health insurers in the region.
M&A activity is picking up in the sector, including a few mergers among takaful operators in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman. Insurance and reinsurance consultant Amer Daya analyses this development.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a plethora of challenges worldwide. Travel restrictions have been put in place where most countries require travellers to present a negative COVID-19 PCR test result issued not more than 72 hours from...
French global insurer AXA has entered into an agreement with Kuwait’s Gulf Insurance Group (gig) to sell its insurance operations in the Gulf region, which includes its shareholding in AXA Gulf, AXA Cooperative Insurance Company and AXA Green...
The Algerian insurance sector and the authorities are looking at creating a new insurance scheme to cover COVID-19 and other pandemic risks.