Covid-19

Insurance Supervisory Response Tracker

The A2ii team has put together the following list of country-responses, resources and news related to COVID-19. Please share any updates or new information with us by emailing secretariat@a2ii.org, by tagging Access to Insurance Initiative on LinkedIn or on Twitter @a2ii_org.

Follow the links on the left for specific information.

A2ii Resources

A2ii blog

The A2ii launched its blog in 2020 with a series of posts on Covid-19 and has continued to publish relevant blog posts related to the topic.

• The pandemic proposition – a stronger insurance front for sustainable development

• InsurTech – shaping financial services in Sub-Saharan Africa 

• A throwback to 2019: old challenges of inclusive insurance remain  

• A2ii Insights: The impact of Covid-19 on the uninsured and vulnerable and implications for supervisors 

• The impact of Covid-19 in the Costa Rican insurance sector - an interview with Tomás Soley of SUGESE 

• Cenfri: The role of insurers to get economies back to business 

• South Africa's response to the Covid-19 pandemic 

• A2ii Insights: Emerging markets' supervisory response to Covid-19 

• Sustaining responsible regulatory response during Covid-19 crisis  

• Covid-19: On approaches to solvency requirements so far  

• Covid-19: The response of the UK Financial Conduct Authority  

• Covid-19: A new impetus to enable access to insurance for the most vulnerable  

• Introductory contribution by IAIS’ Jonathan Dixon on the coronavirus implications for supervisors blog series 

A2ii-IAIS Dialogues
In 2020 the A2ii and the IAIS held two exceptional webinar series: the series on the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and implications for insurance supervisors (six webinars, one open to all stakeholders) and the pandemic risks webinar series (three webinars, two of which were open to all stakeholders).

Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and implications for insurance supervisors

30 June 2020

Cenfri and AXA Emerging Customers presented their research and work on remittances and remittance-linked insurance products during the A2ii-IAIS Public Dialogue.

A2ii-IAIS pandemic risk webinar series #1: the protection gap
13 July 2020

En français / En español

A2ii-IAIS pandemic risk webinar series #2: public-private initiatives

En français / En español 

23 July 2020

Summaries of the webinars can be found on our blog in the following posts:

A2ii Insights: Emerging markets' supervisory response to Covid-19

A2ii Insights: The impact of Covid-19 on the uninsured and vulnerable and implications for supervisors

The pandemic proposition – a stronger insurance front for sustainable development