Special Report

Bancassurance is a sector that has been growing steadily in Lebanon in the last few years. After all, the country is known for its thriving banking sector. The consolidation of …

Lebanon is one of the region’s insurance pioneers with 53 registered insurance companies.  Yet Libano-Suisse General Manager Lucien Letayf believes that penetration levels in Lebanon fall short, with a yearly …

Compared to the global insurance industry market, the MENA industry is characterized by a severe under-penetration. The demographics of the region are partly responsible for this, as the region’s majority …

Whilst the insurance industry in the MENA region attempts to strengthen itself and widen its capacity, it undoubtedly faces many challenges. Oussama Kaissi, General Manager of Abu Dhabi National Takaful, …

The demographic and market changes throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have significantly widened the scope for regional insurance company operations. The changing demographics have allowed insurance …

While the region goes is growing tremendously, the insurance industry is facing a major challenge related to its profitability, but, if well managed, can put the industry at the forefront …

In my 16 years within the Middle East Life Insurance industry, I have never witnessed such tremendous growth in sales for individual life insurance products as in the last three …

Takaful is NOT an Islamic contract or structure in itself, but rather the result of the combination of two or more Islamic contracts, and in general is the combination of …

When the Middle Eastern crème de la crème of insurance professionals gathered in Bahrain earlier this year for the biennial convention of the regional industry body, the General Arab Insurance …

Across the region’s private equity landscape, there are a large number of financiers, whose mixture of know-how and ability to gather capital from a solid investor base introduced new ideas …