Liz Booth
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Africa
African agricultural sector holds key for future
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is championing a new regional and global effort to transform the African Savannah from a…
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Africa
Energy, renewables and construction
The discovery of major deposits of both oil and gas off the shores of east Africa has created hopes of…
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Africa
Tiered approach to African insurance regulation may be the way forward
Acknowledging the differing standards and capacity of insurance companies across Africa, delegates at a recent regulatory roundtable hosted by Commercial…
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Africa
The conference merry-go-round
The conference season has been in full swing across Africa for the past couple of months. Here, Liz Booth takes…
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Africa
East Africa moves one step closer to harmonised insurance regulation
This year’s Organisation of Eastern and Southern African Insurers conference in Tanzania highlighted growing demand for regional, if not continental…
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Africa
Time to join the conversation
Insurers have been too slow to join the conversation, both in terms of their own regulation and more widely in…
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Africa
Is risk management growing up across Africa?
Independent financial services journalist Katya Stead says, ‘I have been to every IRMSA conference since they started – so why…
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Africa
Survival of the fittest
The chances of a business surviving long into the future are that much smaller in today’s fast -moving world. In…
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Africa
A work in progress
Africa’s insurance markets are bouncing back from the bottom of the market cycle but, as delegates at the recent African…
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Africa
Insuring the continent
Speaking to Commercial Risk Africa during the African Insurance Organisation’s recent Reinsurance Forum, Natalie Pakkiri and Kisnthrie Naidoo of Munich…
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Africa
AfDB acts to manage climate change risk
The African Development Bank has launched a climate risk management programme to boost resilience and response to climate shocks in…
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Africa
ATI and African Development Bank complete $500m deal to open up African opportunities
The African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have completed a $500m credit insurance deal structured…
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Africa
Lack of insurance threatens emerging economies
Under-insurance of an estimated $163bn of assets worldwide is leaving a gap that poses a significant threat to livelihoods and…
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Analysis & Opinion
Corporates face wider risks as court rules on Christmas party assault
The concept of vicarious liability continues to expand, with implications for corporates and risk managers. A recent UK Court of…
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Africa
Emerging market currencies still posing huge risk to business
South Africa is among emerging market currencies that have already seen depreciation this year and which will continue to be…
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Africa
Angola lies 137th in Global Competitiveness Index despite investing billions of dollars
Angola has been placed 137th in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, despite the government investing between $99.5bn and…
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Analysis & Opinion
Climate risk disclosure – a globally coordinated approach by regulators?
With the world’s leading climate change scientists warning that the world has only 12 years to limit a climate change…
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Africa
Egypt approves new data protection law
It has recently been reported that Egypt has become the latest jurisdiction in the Middle East and north Africa region…
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Africa
African Development Bank joins risk management efforts to curb impact of worm infestation on east African agriculture
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has joined the efforts to manage the risk of devastation among smallholder farms in east…
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Africa
China changing its approach to African investments
China’s style of investment across Africa is on the move, as the relationships between China and the continent evolves. Speaking…