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Howden Tiger hires Jani to lead treaty reinsurance team in Middle East, Africa & India
8th March 2023
Howden Tiger, the reinsurance arm of international re/insurance broker Howden, has appointed Minesh Jani to lead its Treaty Reinsurance team in the Middle East, Africa & India region. In the role, Jani will hold responsibility for growing Howden Tiger’s international platform within the Middle East, Africa & India, with a particular ... Read the full article
Aon appoints Nolwandle Mgoqi as CEO for South Africa
6th March 2023
Global professional services firm Aon has announced the appointment of Nolwandle Mgoqi as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for South Africa, effective today. Before joining Aon, Mgoqi held various executive roles in the financial services sector, including most recently as Chief Executive of Standard Insurance Limited and as Head of Insurance for ... Read the full article
AIG names Nasr as Senior Property Underwriter, FAC Reinsurance, GCC & North Africa
1st March 2023
Global re/insurer AIG has appointed Rana Nasr as Senior Property Underwriter - FAC Reinsurance, GCC & North Africa. Nasr joins AIG from Active Capital Reinsurance, Ltd., where she served as regional representative & property underwriter. Prior to that role, she spent over three years working at Chedid Capital, a leading investment group ... Read the full article
Lloyd’s approves Africa Specialty Risks as coverholder
22nd February 2023
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), a pan-African focused reinsurance group, has been approved as a coverholder at Lloyd’s, the specialist re/insurance market. This means that ASR will be able to work with Lloyd’s syndicates and manage delegated authorities for specialist lines of business commencing with Political Violence and Terorrism and leverage the ... Read the full article
Drought-affected West Africa to benefit from ARC insurance payout via WFP
17th February 2023
The United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) has received $15.4m worth of insurance payouts from African Risk Capacity (ARC) Limited to help 490,000 people in West Africa impacted by drought in 2022. The ARC was established in 2021, it is a provider of parametric disaster insurance products to countries and risk ... Read the full article
Africa Specialty Risks appoints Ciaran O’Donnell as CFO
7th February 2023
Pan-African focused re/insurance group Africa Specialty Risks (ASR) has announced the appointment of Ciaran O’Donnell as Chief Financial Officer following co-founder Bryan Howett's decision to step down from the role to pursue other opportunities. O’Donnell is an experienced CFO with extensive international financial and operational knowledge in the insurance industry, having ... Read the full article
Africa Specialty Risks appoints Sean Paradine as senior treaty underwriter
15th December 2022
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR) has appointed Sean Paradine to be its new senior treaty underwriter. Paradine, said the firm in a statement, joins from WR Berkley where he was a senior vice president focused on treaty underwriting in Sub-Saharan Africa. Before WR Berkley, Paradine spent over twenty years at Everest Re. Mikir ... Read the full article
ZEP-RE and Planet Labs partner on African drought program
13th December 2022
ZEP-RE, a reinsurance company based in Nairobi, Kenya, has partnered with data provider Planet Labs to expand its drought insurance program in the Horn of Africa (HOA) region. The reinsurer plans to leverage Planet’s Basemaps products to measure vegetation health for an area of more than 600,000 square kilometres of Eastern ... Read the full article
African Risk Capacity launches parametric insurance product
12th December 2022
The African Risk Capacity has launched its own parametric insurance product against high-impact epidemic risks. In a statement, the organisation said that Senegal was to be the first African country to join this new innovative financing mechanism. African Ministers of Finance in 2015 requested ARC to develop a product to meet countries' ... Read the full article
Aon appoints head of transaction solutions for Sub-Saharan Africa
1st December 2022
Aon has appointed Maakopi Reason Maredi as head of transaction solutions for the Sub-Saharan Africa region. The firm said in a statement that Reason will be based in Johannesburg and joins the firm from Webber Wentzel, where she was a corporate partner and gained broad corporate and commercial transactional experience. Prior to ... Read the full article
Etihad Credit Insurance & African Trade Insurance Agency sign reinsurance agreement
24th November 2022
Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI) and African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) have signed a reciprocal reinsurance agreement to strengthen trade ties and boost exports between the two markets by providing trade credit insurance and trade finance solutions to businesses. The deal follows the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) each entity signed in March ... Read the full article
Africa Specialty Risks partners with Africa Re on political risk & trade credit
22nd November 2022
Africa Specialty Risks and the African Reinsurance Corporation have announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement on the provision of Political Risk and Trade Credit Insurance through an Underwriting Authority Agreement which brings in a $10 million multi-year capacity for risks situated in Africa and the Middle East. Read the full article
Africa Specialty Risks partners with Société Centrale de Réassurance
18th November 2022
Pan-African (re)insurer Africa Specialty Risks (ASR) has entered a partnership agreement with Moroccan reinsurer Société Centrale de Réassurance (SCR). A joint statement said that the pair will be combining capacities to write multi-business line coverage across Africa and the Middle East, with the joint capacity being led by the ASR team ... Read the full article
African insurers pledge $14bn of cover to take up climate change fight
15th November 2022
A group of over 85 insurers in Africa have pledged to create a financing facility to provide $14 billion of cover to help protect 1.4 billion people within the continent against floods, droughts, and tropical cyclones. The commitment to create the African Climate Risk Facility (ACRF) was made during the ongoing ... Read the full article
African Risk Capacity receives €9m grant from EU Commission
15th November 2022
The African Risk Capacity (ARC) has received a grant funding of €9 million from the European Union Commision at a special COP 27 event as part of marking the 10th anniversary of the specialised agency of the African Union. The ARC was established in 2021, it is a provider of parametric ... Read the full article
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