Manchester, UK, 17 September 2018: A five-year project to provide low-income dairy farmers with livestock microinsurance in Kenya will be launched by Kenyan cooperative insurer CIC Insurance Group (CIC) at a formal event taking place today in Nairobi. This venture has been formulated as part of the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation’s (ICMIF) 5-5-5 […]

Manchester, UK, 5 July 2018: On 7 July 2018, cooperatives around the world will celebrate the International Day of Cooperatives. Through the slogan Sustainable societies through cooperation cooperatives will show how, thanks to their cooperative values, principles and governance structures, these organisations have sustainability and resilience at their core, with concern for community as the seventh […]

Manchester, UK, 21 May 2018: A unique report on mutual and cooperative microinsurance in the Philippines has been published today by the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) and Microinsurance MBA Association of the Philippines, Inc (also known as RIMANSI). The report, entitled Mutual and Cooperative Microinsurance in the Philippines: A Landscape Study, was […]

Manchester, UK, 23 April 2018: Today sees the opening of the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) Meeting of Reinsurance Officials (MORO) in Montreal, Canada. The MORO Conference takes place 23-25 April and this year’s theme is Reinsuring the mutual way. This year’s MORO has attracted elite leaders from the global reinsurance industry and […]

Manchester, UK, 8 March 2018  New data from the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) shows that an estimated 97% of primary policyholders covered to date as a result of ICMIF’s 5-5-5 Mutual Microinsurance Strategy are women. The total number of lives covered is over 3.2 million in developing countries, these are policyholders who […]

Manchester, UK, 8 March 2018: The International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) newly formed Young Leaders Programme had its official launch as part of its Biennial Conference in London last October. Fifty-five young leaders attended and just under half were women, highlighting a clear commitment from mutuals and cooperatives world-wide to “press for progress”. […]

Manchester, UK, 26 February 2018: The International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) today announced that a keynote speakers for its upcoming Meeting of Reinsurance Officials (MORO) in Montreal, Canada, in April will be Glenn McGillivray, Managing Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR). The MORO Conference will take place 23-25 April 2018 […]

Manchester, UK, 7 December 2017:  On Tuesday 14 November 2017 a workshop was hosted jointly 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 follows the release in July 2017 […]

London, UK, 20 October 2017: The International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) today announced preliminary finding from their 2016 Global Mutual Market Share research. These findings confirmed the growing social impact of mutual and cooperative insurance in 2016. Cooperative and mutual insurers have consistently increased their policyholder numbers since 2012. During its Biennial Conference […]

London, UK, Wednesday 19 October 2017 – This week, the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) welcomed more than 360 delegates from 37 countries to attend the 2017 Biennial Conference: Redesigning Insurance at the Hilton London Bankside Hotel, UK (17-20 October). Of those delegates, 55 are young leaders, deemed by their organisation to be […]