Driverless and fully electric vehicles are set to arrive in Western Australia under RAC’s continued plan to trial automated vehicles, making Perth the first city in Australia – and among the very first in the world – to test and experience this type of service. ICMIF member RAC, in partnership with NAVYA and the State […]
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Ariel Guarco, the recently elected President of the International Co-operative Alliance (the Alliance) this week spoke to over 200 delegates at the 25th Annual ICMIF/Americas Conference currently being held in Montevideo, Uruguay. Guarco was one of the speakers in the official conference opening ceremony where he was joined by Georgina Díaz Sánchez (pictured with Guarco), […]
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The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Summit 2017, 15-16 November 2017, brought together global leaders from business and finance, including Chairmen, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Chief Investment Officers (CIOs) and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), to agree actions that, it is hoped, will accelerate the transition to a more sustainable world. The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project […]
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Ariel Guarco, President of Cooperar, the Co-operative Confederation of Argentina has been elected president of the International Co-operative Alliance. The election took place today, Friday 17 November, at the International Co-operative Alliance’s General Assembly, which has taken place over the course of this week in Malaysia. Guarco received an overwhelming majority of the votes. Guarco […]
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On Tuesday 14 November a workshop was jointly hosted by the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) with the Insurance Institute of India (III) in Mumbai (India) with the theme Closing the Protection Gap in India – a People-Based Solution. The workshop was attended by over 50 attendees. The workshop follows the release in […]
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The UK mutual insurance sector continued to outperform the rest of the UK insurance market in 2016, according to the latest financial research from the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF). The Market InSights: UK 2016 report will be officially launched next week at ICMIF’s Biennial Conference in London, attended by more than 350 […]
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More than 50 young leaders from 27 mutual and cooperative insurers in 14 countries have registered to attend the new Young Leaders Programme at the upcoming ICMIF Biennial Conference in London (17-20 October). The unique programme has been designed for millennial/Gen Y employees (generally aged between 18 and 35) of ICMIF member companies, offering them […]
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The Association of Mutual Insurers and Insurance Cooperatives in Europe (AMICE), together with its global organisation, the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF), welcomes the interim report, “Sustainable Financing a European Economy”, published by the High Level Expert Group on sustainable finance (HLEG) and congratulates the authors on their analysis. We fully support the […]
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The global mutual and cooperative insurance community, represented by the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF), and the European mutual and cooperatives sector, represented by the Association of Mutual Insurers and Insurance Cooperatives in Europe (AMICE), welcomes the application paper issued yesterday by the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) on the regulation and […]
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A first-of-its-kind report on mutual and cooperative microinsurance in India entitled The missing chapter of microinsurance in India: a diagnostic of mutuals has today been published by the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) and Insurance Institute of India (III). This country diagnostic study was conducted as part of the ICMIF’s 5-5-5 Mutual Microinsurance […]
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