All DWIC articles – Page 5
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News Agenda
Saudi, UAE health market overcrowded, dropouts expected – Fitch Ratings
Fitch says the compulsory health insurance market is overcrowded and predicts the pressures on profitability will force out weaker players
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News Agenda
Health warnings amid profits for UAE insurers
2018 marked a second consecutive year of bumper profits for the UAE’s insurance market, according to an AM Best report
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Analysis
Demand hugely untapped – Willis Re’s Vickers
The insurance sector has a lot to do if it wants to close the protection gap in Middle East markets, according to James Vickers, chairman of Willis Re International
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News Agenda
Big challenges face Middle East reinsurance market – Chedid Re
Compulsory lines are the only ones growing in the Middle East, causing commoditisation of products
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News Agenda
Aon highlights 8 cyber risk areas
Game-changing business opportunities are created, as well as risks, as companies continue to use technology to speed up information transfer, according to re/insurance broker Aon
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Middle Eastern insurers are well capitalised despite the region’s problems – report
Suppressed oil prices and government budget cuts have led to fewer insured risks, but GCC insurers are well capitalised, according to AM Best
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News
DWIC18 - Aon Benfield’s Andersen predicts ‘hodgepodge’ future for value chain
Coverage from day one of this year’s Dubai World Insurance Congress
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News
DWIC18 ends on optimistic note
The two-day event, co-hosted by the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), saw a global delegate contingent of nearly 600 network and gain insight
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News
DWIC18 - Insurers must cut down AI strategies to less than 12-months to avoid implementation failure
Failures created by long-term strategies represent a point of no return, warns DataRobot’s Satadru Sengupta
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News
DWIC18 - Rise in UAE cybercrime and regulatory scrutiny will drive increase in insurance demand
But policyholders will need to watch out for wordings
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News
DWIC18 - NASA on managing space-age risks from the coalface
The federal agency’s aerospace engineer Jeevan Perera provides a risk-focused perspective at this year’s DWIC
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News
DWIC18 - B3i company to launch next week, Régis Delayat
Speaking at Day Two of DWIC18, Scor’s Delayat announced the change of structure
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Analysis
Q&A: Scor's Régis Delayat on implementing change
One of the industry’s biggest advocates for digital changes talks about preparing for the tech revolution
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Analysis
FinTech Hive – the story so far
With the first panel of DWIC18 day two focussing on the DIFC’s Fintech Hive, we take a look at what has been achieved
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Analysis
DWIC18 - New data and processing power make way for “renaissance” in AI
A breakdown of the key talking points from the DWIC 2018 AI panel on day one
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News
DWIC18 - New Innovation Lab will help Lloyd's deliver change', Cameron Murray
Speaking with Global Reinsurance group publisher, Lloyd’s head of Middle East & Africa outlines the launch of a new Lloyd’s innovation lab
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News
DWIC18 - Insurers must evolve or die, Vincent Vandendael
The Lloyd’s chief commercial officer told DWIC delegates that the ecosystem business model was the way forward
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Viewpoints
Q&A: Aon Benfield's Eric Andersen on a joined up approach
Ahead of his DWIC 2018 ‘Global View’ keynote, the Aon Benfield chief executive speaks to Global Reinsurance about seizing opportunities in the market
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Viewpoints
Buzz round: Dubai World Insurance Congress 2018 speaker Arif Amiri
The DIFC Authority chief executive officer, speaker at this year’s Dubai World Insurance Congress (DWIC) 2018 event, talks innovation and insurtech in the MENA region