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Jul 2025

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South Asia

Sri Lanka: Investor optimism in life insurance landscape renewed

As Sri Lanka continues to recover from its earlier economic challenges, its life insurance industry has proven to be a dynamic landscape, with the rise of mobile technology and digital literacy, rising income and new digital infrastructure and progressive regulations.
 

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Investigating the urban-rural divide in Nepal's insurance access

Insurance has become a priority sector in Nepal, with companies focussing on microinsurance and customised policies tailored to different income groups. However, persistent challenges exist such as the insurance affordability ap between the urban and rural populations, awareness levels, trust issues with incompetent insurers and a lack of comprehensive data for risk assessment.
 

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View from India - Brokers can have a significant role in improving insurance penetration in rural India

Almost two thirds of India’s population live in rural areas. The majority of them are yet to be brought into the insurance fold. If India wants to achieve “Insurance for All” by 2047, all stakeholders in the insurance industry will need to create and work in a collaborative ecosystem to achieve this target and it cannot happen without the rural market being on board.
 

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Transforming India's reinsurance ecosystem

Policybazaar entered the reinsurance broking business in early 2024 and plans to bring in advanced technology, process control and data analytics-based innovation into the reinsurance ecosystem in the country.
 

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