What can be done to ease inflation and ensure a more manageable rate of growth in domestic prices?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Njuguna Ndung’u, Governor, Central Bank of Kenya from The Report: Kenya 2014
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Lydia Lariba Bawa, Commissioner, National Insurance Commission from The Report: Ghana 2014
How should the risk-based supervision model work alongside minimum capital requirements?
Articles & Analysis | Securing the market from unnecessary risk from The Report: Ghana 2014
Since the Insurance Act of 2006 was passed, regulators have been looking at solvency, capital and inclusiveness, and issuing frameworks and guidelines to compel insurers to strengthen their balance sheets and reserve against unforeseen claims. This has encouraged them to write more micro-insurance policies.
Articles & Analysis | The sector must weigh the need for more local content against demand for foreign reinsurers from The Report: Ghana 2014
The country’s insurance sector is open and liberalised and, as with Ghana’s other major financial service sectors, has benefitted extensively from foreign investment. Since the 1990s, capital and expertise have entered the insurance market and helped in the development of the sector. As of early 2014, more than half of the insurance companies in Ghana were foreign...
Articles & Analysis | Improving coverage on the continent has attracted reinsurance firms from The Report: Ghana 2014
US and European players have historically dominated the global reinsurance segment, and Africa – where other than a handful of small, government-backed reinsurers benefiting from mandated local coverage requirements, reinsurance contracts have generally gone abroad – is no exception. However, this is beginning to change, as the high growth in Africa’s emerging markets,...
Articles & Analysis | Shrinking the size of insurance offerings has improved deliverability from The Report: Ghana 2014
To date, Ghana has followed a traditional course in the development and sale of insurance products: companies design and underwrite policies and brokers and agents are used to distributed them. As a result, penetration rates are relatively low.