All DWIC articles – Page 4
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Online onlyDWIC Honours: The CEO’s CEO Award
This award is voted for by CEOs. We ask them to choose their ‘first among equals’, to select the CEO whom they most admire in the region
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Online onlyDWIC 2020: Cyber needs a fresh approach to open up new markets
The opening panel session of DWIC 2020 was asked to answer the question of when businesses in the MENA region will start buying cyber insurance, and the answer may surprise you
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Online onlyDWIC 2020: Meeting the Needs of the Global Insurance Consumer in 2025
Consumer Intelligence chief executive Ian Hughes opens DWIC 2020 with a look at the consumer of the future, and what is driving change in the insurance industry over the next five years
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News AgendaHow Bahrain got overtaken in the Middle East reinsurance market
Increasingly antiquated rules and a lack of innovation have lost Bahrain its early mover advantage in Middle East re/insurance, according to a report published this week by ratings firm AM Best
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PublicationThe InsureTech Revolution: a roundtable debate hosted by GR and Charles Taylor InsureTech
Insurance technology efforts should be about customer-driven outcomes, not just technology-driven solutions. GR and Charles Taylor InsureTech hosted a roundtable debate in Dubai to discuss how insurance firms can do better.
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PublicationDWIC Report 2019: Where MENA markets meet
This year’s DWIC event featured a number of themes, including the need for product innovation, the rise of insurtech, pricing competition in health and motor markets, steps towards insurance penetration, progress for Takaful products, Dubai’s continued importance as the Middle East regional re/insurance hub, and reinsurers under continued pressure
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NewsDWIC interview: Andy Rogers, co-CEO, Amdaris
David Benyon, editor, Global Reinsurance speaks with Andy Rogers, co-CEO of Amdaris and Adrian Sutherland, CTO, Jumar about how technology is transforming (re)insurance.
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News AgendaInnovation in Middle East markets – a little less conversation, a little more action
Insurers in Middle East markets talk about launching new products, but not enough innovation follows, JLT Re’s Russell Walters told GR
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AnalysisTakaful faces market awareness challenge: Even some people who work in it don’t know what it does
The Takaful and Re/Takaful sector has an image problem and general lack of awareness about what it can do, according to speakers at DWIC 2019
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News AgendaSeize opportunities coming to the UAE soon
Panellists on the final MENA session from day one of DWIC 2019 talked about new product opportunities the region could see soon.
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News AgendaHealthcare tourism could be a strained market's saving grace
The health insurance market is struggling to keep up with demand, but a new trend has emerged, says Axa Global Healthcare’s Laurent Pochat-Cottilloux
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Online onlyAfrican markets waiting for a catalyst
Africa shows great growth potential, but it needs a push from insurers willing to take a chance
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Online onlyInsurance wrappers for government bonds - Willis Re's Vickers on market opportunities
Fiscal pressure on governments could be one of re/insurance’s biggest opportunities, Willis Re International chairman James Vickers told DWIC 19 in Dubai
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Online onlyWeak market leaves reinsurers under pressure
“Soft-hard” pricing after recent renewals leaves reinsurers under pressure, DWIC 2019 heard from a roundtable debate on the state of the market
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Online onlyDWIC 2019: Day 2 live and free
Catch up with all the news from the Dubai World Insurance Congress 2019
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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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Online onlyConstruction will bounce back - Scor
Hedi Hachicha, Scor’s chief underwriting officer for property and casualty treaty business in the Middle East and Africa (MENA) talks new risks, construction demand, and effective regulation
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Online onlySigns 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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PublicationDWIC 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
