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But with weather-related losses for Santam alone climbing 12% YOY to $36m and 91% of organisations globally expecting a significant rise\u202fin AI-driven cyber threats, can Africa\u2019s insurance industry ($64bn in annual premiums) absorb such heavy losses? What is needed from governments and capital markets to reinforce the industry\u2019s underwriting capacity?\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Key points:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Premium subsidies, becoming anchor clients, and growing reinsurance and national risk modelling capacity: How can governments &amp; regulators boost insurance system readiness?<\/li>\n<li>Insurance linked securities and catastrophe bonds: What relief can capital markets provide, and could it extend to cyber risks?<\/li>\n<li>Tech partnerships and new collaborations: What\u2019s needed to ensure parametric insurance linked to satellite and sensor data is equal to ground-level losses?\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","evenement-salon":[132],"class_list":["post-21110","sb_session","type-sb_session","status-publish","hentry","evenement-salon-132"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Panel | Tech, climate &amp; food ecosystem exposures: Can insurance absorb the coming shockwaves? - The African Financial Summit Platform<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/en\/sb_session\/panel-tech-climate-food-ecosystem-exposures-can-insurance-absorb-the-coming-shockwaves\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Panel | Tech, climate &amp; food ecosystem exposures: Can insurance absorb the coming shockwaves? - The African Financial Summit Platform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With cyberattacks targeting government coffers, a high-profile CNSS data leak in Morocco, and more frequent El Ni\u00f1os that left 20m facing hunger in Southern Africa last year: Africa\u2019s insurance industry must build capacity to offer safety nets to mounting systemic threats. 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