Lagos, Nigeria//Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (https://www.AfricaFC.org/), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has established a Bermudian wholly owned subsidiary, AFC Captive Insurance Company Ltd (AFC Captive), to enhance its risk management capabilities and support the continued growth of its infrastructure financing activities across Africa.
Leading mobile insurance company in Ghana, MTN aYo Insurance has emerged as the Mobile Insurance Leader for the year 2026 at the Ghana Insurance Awards.
In the retail brokerage industry, the growth playbook often revolves around pouring capital into aggressive marketing, offering eye-catching onboarding promos, and driving top-of-funnel client acquisition. However, in institutional finance, growth without a battle-tested operational foundation is an expensive house of cards.
Dakar, Senegal// — Faced with a major paradox representing nearly 19% of the world’s population while accounting for less than 1% of global insurance premiums, African insurance stakeholders are mobilising.
Government has fully settled the GH¢1.05 billion it owed the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) for 2024, with most of the payments made in cash, Director-General Kwasi Afreh Biney has revealed.
Abidjan, Ivory Coast// — The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved, on 22 May, a $125 million equity investment in the African Trade and Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI) to help meet rising demand for trade and investment risk mitigation products in Africa.
Johannesburg, South Africa// — Telecoming (www.Telecoming.com), a global technology company specialising in the monetisation of digital services, announces the launch of DCB Software South Africa (www.DCBSoftwareZA.com), its new local subsidiary. The move reinforces the company’s growth strategy in Africa, one of the most promising markets in the mobile economy.
Over the past decade, the US life insurance industry has undergone a profound transformation. What began as opportunistic private-capital deployment into legacy annuity and life insurance blocks has evolved into a convergence of insurance carriers, alternative asset managers, and long-duration capital providers.
The spectacle of GLICO’s sudden moral awakening regarding the Ghana Gas insurance programme is not an exercise in corporate transparency; it is the desperate gasp of a monopoly losing its grip.
For far too long, the Ghanaian insurance industry has functioned less like a competitive marketplace and more like a banquet hall where the table is set by political patronage and the guest list is restricted to a greedy few.
