Insurance

Bancassurance: a win-win solution for Bangladesh

With a gross domestic product growth rate of nearly 5.8 percent in 2023, Bangladesh is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Driving Bangladesh’s prospects is our extremely active domestic consumer market, which accounts for nearly 70 percent of GDP and is rapidly expanding on the back of a growing middle and affluent class. Fuelling this growth is a digital economy that is also expanding rapidly.

Bancassurance can change how we do insurance

The system of selling insurance services to bank customers will ultimately expand financial inclusion.

Bancassurance for financial inclusivity

The government's move to approve bancassurance is an opportunity to make insurance more accessible, trustworthy, and understandable.

Insurers asked to take prior permission for branch’s relocation, closure

The insurance regulator issued a circular in this regard today

Insurance claim settlement plunges

The claim settlement ratio of life insurance companies in Bangladesh plunged to its lowest level at least in a decade in 2021 as their capacity to pay out has been reduced by bad investment, excessive costs and business slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. 

Govt support needed to popularise crop insurance: experts

Crop insurance may not be successful in Bangladesh if the government doesn’t extend support and awareness among farmers is not raised, said experts yesterday.

'Insurance gap' poses threats to poor nations

Disaster-prone developing nations, including Bangladesh and Indonesia, are exposed to crippling losses when storms, floods or earthquakes strike because they suffer from a dangerous lack of insurance, industry experts said yesterday.

March 19, 2024
March 19, 2024

Bancassurance: a win-win solution for Bangladesh

With a gross domestic product growth rate of nearly 5.8 percent in 2023, Bangladesh is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Driving Bangladesh’s prospects is our extremely active domestic consumer market, which accounts for nearly 70 percent of GDP and is rapidly expanding on the back of a growing middle and affluent class. Fuelling this growth is a digital economy that is also expanding rapidly.

January 2, 2024
January 2, 2024

Bancassurance can change how we do insurance

The system of selling insurance services to bank customers will ultimately expand financial inclusion.

December 15, 2023
December 15, 2023

Bancassurance for financial inclusivity

The government's move to approve bancassurance is an opportunity to make insurance more accessible, trustworthy, and understandable.

February 23, 2023
February 23, 2023

Insurers asked to take prior permission for branch’s relocation, closure

The insurance regulator issued a circular in this regard today

October 24, 2022
October 24, 2022

Insurance claim settlement plunges

The claim settlement ratio of life insurance companies in Bangladesh plunged to its lowest level at least in a decade in 2021 as their capacity to pay out has been reduced by bad investment, excessive costs and business slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. 

May 3, 2019
May 3, 2019

Govt support needed to popularise crop insurance: experts

Crop insurance may not be successful in Bangladesh if the government doesn’t extend support and awareness among farmers is not raised, said experts yesterday.

October 23, 2018
October 23, 2018

'Insurance gap' poses threats to poor nations

Disaster-prone developing nations, including Bangladesh and Indonesia, are exposed to crippling losses when storms, floods or earthquakes strike because they suffer from a dangerous lack of insurance, industry experts said yesterday.

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