All DWIC articles – Page 4
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Online onlyReinsurers shifting focus from cat business – Axa XL’s Watson
Disruption to core catastrophe business is leading to a significant change in the global reinsurance market as reinsurers place greater emphasis on margin expansion in other lines of business, David Watson, chief executive international reinsurance at Axa XL told delegates at this year’s Dubai World Insurance Congress (DWIC).
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Construction will bounce back - Scor
Hedi Hachicha, Scor’s chief underwriting officer for property and casualty t reaty business in the Middle East and Africa (MENA) talks new risks, construction demand, and effective regulation
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Signs of life in UAE energy construction market
After three years in relative hibernation, several energy construction projects loom for the UAE
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Publication
DWIC 2019: Day 1 live and free to read
Click through here to read the first day of GR’s coverage of the Dubai World Insurance Congress 2019
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News Agenda
Saudi, UAE health market overcrowded, dropouts expected – Fitch Ratings
Fitch says the compulsory health insurance market is overcrowded and predicts the pressures on profitability will force out weaker players
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Health warnings amid profits for UAE insurers
2018 marked a second consecutive year of bumper profits for the UAE’s insurance market, according to an AM Best report
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Demand hugely untapped – Willis Re’s Vickers
The insurance sector has a lot to do if it wants to close the protection gap in Middle East markets, according to James Vickers, chairman of Willis Re International
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Big challenges face Middle East reinsurance market – Chedid Re
Compulsory lines are the only ones growing in the Middle East, causing commoditisation of products
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Aon highlights 8 cyber risk areas
Game-changing business opportunities are created, as well as risks, as companies continue to use technology to speed up information transfer, according to re/insurance broker Aon
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Middle Eastern insurers are well capitalised despite the region’s problems – report
Suppressed oil prices and government budget cuts have led to fewer insured risks, but GCC insurers are well capitalised, according to AM Best
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DWIC18 - Aon Benfield’s Andersen predicts ‘hodgepodge’ future for value chain
Coverage from day one of this year’s Dubai World Insurance Congress
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DWIC18 ends on optimistic note
The two-day event, co-hosted by the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), saw a global delegate contingent of nearly 600 network and gain insight
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DWIC18 - Insurers must cut down AI strategies to less than 12-months to avoid implementation failure
Failures created by long-term strategies represent a point of no return, warns DataRobot’s Satadru Sengupta
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DWIC18 - Rise in UAE cybercrime and regulatory scrutiny will drive increase in insurance demand
But policyholders will need to watch out for wordings
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DWIC18 - NASA on managing space-age risks from the coalface
The federal agency’s aerospace engineer Jeevan Perera provides a risk-focused perspective at this year’s DWIC
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DWIC18 - B3i company to launch next week, Régis Delayat
Speaking at Day Two of DWIC18, Scor’s Delayat announced the change of structure
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Analysis
Q&A: Scor's Régis Delayat on implementing change
One of the industry’s biggest advocates for digital changes talks about preparing for the tech revolution
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Analysis
FinTech Hive – the story so far
With the first panel of DWIC18 day two focussing on the DIFC’s Fintech Hive, we take a look at what has been achieved
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Analysis
DWIC18 - New data and processing power make way for “renaissance” in AI
A breakdown of the key talking points from the DWIC 2018 AI panel on day one
