MICROINSURANCE

Ghana

aYo Insurance Introduces Annual Cover on Recharge with Care. Daily Guide Network (Ghana), October 4, 2022.

Mobile microinsurance provider aYo Intermediaries Ghana has introduced a new feature in its Recharge with Care policy. It allows customers to make a one-time premium payment for full annual cover. The new feature allows customers to pay GH¢130 for a full year’s cover. Customers are then only paid a monthly premium of GH¢6 whenever they recharge MTN airtime and are provided with monthly life and hospital cover.

Japan

Income Expands to Japan by White-Labelling SNACK. Coverager, November 28, 2022.

ReMark, the digital solutions provider of global reinsurer SCOR, is the first international partner to adopt it, offering lifestyle-based micro-insurance (SNACK) to Japanese consumers.

Panama

Microserfin Creates App to Bring Financial Services Closer to Microentrepreneurs. Panama News, December 15, 2022.

MSF App is the name of the new mobile application launched by Microserfin to bring the entity's financial and non-financial services closer to rural and urban micro-entrepreneurs. With the new app, more than 18,000 microentrepreneurs can consult their credits and know the details of their microinsurance, assistance, and payments. (Text in Spanish)

Tanzania

TTCL Launches Insurance Product . Daily News, December 7, 2022.

T-Pesa has launched a mobile phone–led insurance service that aims to reach over two million people in the next year. Bima na T-Pesa, the new insurance, has three products, including housing, motor vehicle, and personal insurance, which will be processed through mobile phone services.