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What is changing in Kenyan insurance

Field notes on supervision, distribution and claims from the teams building insurance infrastructure for African markets.

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Regulation

What risk-based supervision asks of Kenyan insurers

Capital is no longer a single number on a return. Supervision increasingly follows the risk an insurer actually carries — and that changes what the business has to be able to show.

6 min read
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Distribution

Mobile-first distribution and small-ticket cover

Mobile money made premiums collectable in amounts that were previously uneconomic. The constraint moved from payment rails to whether the rest of the journey can operate at the same size.

5 min read
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Claims

Claims turnaround is the product

Customers experience insurance once: at claim. Everything before that is a promise, and turnaround is the only part of it they can measure.

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Distribution

Where SACCOs and bancassurance fit

Embedded distribution reaches people who would never approach an insurer directly. It also moves the service burden onto institutions whose core business is not insurance.

5 min read

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