In a move that will boost the country’s capital markets, reduce state activity in the market and provide much-needed revenues for the government’s coffers, Egypt is laying the groundwork for the first potential sale of key state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in over a decade.
Increased product awareness and sustained economic expansion are fuelling double-digit growth in the Philippines’ insurance sector, as the emergence of micro-insurance products helps boost penetration rates and premiums.
Microinsurance is defined as the sale of simple, low-cost insurance products to low-income sectors of the population for segments such as health, life and property risks. Typically these customers may not be formally employed, nor have been previously insured. According to an April 2015 study by BSLatAm, a banking and insurance consultancy,...
Total premiums paid to Colombia’s insurance companies have been growing at a strong pace in recent years, supported by the country’s underlying rate of economic expansion, a growing middle class, product development and the entry of new players into the industry. Growth has been strongest in the life insurance segment of the market. However,...
How can the stock exchange bring stability to the Colombian financial markets? CÓRDOBA: The primary lesson of the global financial crisis is that excess risk concentration in the banking sector can lead to systemic events. This must not be repeated and all regulatory efforts are focused on avoiding this risk concentration among...
With a total market capitalisation of $93.49bn in September 2015, the Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC) is the fourth-largest stock exchange in Latin America, behind those of Brazil, Mexico and Chile but ahead of Peru’s. Since the end of the commodities boom, which lasted from 2001 to 2012, Latin American stock exchanges have gone through a...
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