Insights and perspectives

This blog provides a platform for sharing insights and perspectives on topical issues in microinsurance. If there is a topic you would like to write about, please contact the Network secretariat.

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Securing securities in a hostile cyber world

Kashf Foundation and insurance for women-centric low-income households

Could reward schemes, such as the Vitality programme, help drive microinsurance uptake and improve health outcomes?

Join the ILO/MiN "Behavioural economics, health and inclusive finance” discussion group

Together: advancing customer centricity in microinsurance

Conference season is upon us. Last week, the microinsurance sector met in Lima for the 13th International Microinsurance Conference. At the same time, the Mastercard Foundation held its 5th Symposium on Financial Inclusion in Accra.

Technology, social inclusion and regulatory innovations in the insurance industry in Europe

The Microinsurance Network attended the 2017 FARAD Finance Forum which took place in Luxembourg earlier this month. Organised by FARAD International, an independent insurance broker specialised in the Private Life Insurance sector, the event was held as a full-day forum for the first time, and brought together players of the three pillars of the financial industry: the banking sector, the insurance industry and investment funds.

Automation using artificial intelligence poised to be the next game changer in the insurance industry?

InsurTech Integrated to launch discussions stressing the need to leverage the power and potential of advanced data technologies to achieve enhanced efficiency in business workflows.

Microinsurance innovators and The Financial Inclusion Challenge

While microcredit and savings have historically dominated the financial-inclusion conversation, there is growing recognition for the innovative ways that microinsurers are bringing services to the people who need them most.

“The Financial Inclusion Challenge” competition, run by The Wall Street Journal, showcases nonprofit and for-profit enterprises that are solving problems of financial access for the poor in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Wall Street Journal's Financial Inclusion Challenge 2017 - Enter Now

I wanted to let you know about a competition The Wall Street Journal will be hosting in Hong Kong: The Financial Inclusion Challenge 2017.

Is microinsurance becoming “smart”?

An insight on technological advances in insurance offerings today

An eye-opening session took place at the 12th International Microinsurance Conference in Sri Lanka on the use of technology in microinsurance, presenting a number of interesting innovations on the way insurance can be offered.

7 things I learned from the Microinsurance Network field trip and workshop on microinsurance distribution

What if you could simply swipe your card every time you wanted to pay for a minibus taxi ride? That might be more convenient than carrying the right change in cash... But what about if you are automatically insured for the trip you’re about to take, as a result of using that card? Now that’s an incentive, isn’t it?

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