Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) in August 2026 launched a Bermuda-domiciled captive, AFC Captive Insurance Company, to strengthen risk management and support its infrastructure financing activities across the continent. Backed by up to $30 million in equity capital, AFC Captive will initially insure loans AFC extends to its counterparties, with the goal of reducing reliance on external commercial insurance markets over time. Wola Asase, AFC’s deputy director and head of

MAXIS GBN in September 2026 released a whitepaper urging multinational employers to adopt a nuanced, data-led strategy for covering GLP-1 medications, warning that poor planning could drive up pharmacy costs without delivering lasting health gains. Building on a dataset that covers 52 insurance partners in 36 countries, more than 7.9 million insured lives, over 1.5 million unique claimants and approximately 50 million claim records, MAXIS GBN found that 38%

In the UK, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) in September 2026 unveiled a new outcomes-focused enforcement approach that prioritizes early intervention and data-driven risk detection over rigid compliance checks, aiming to prevent harm to pension savers before it occurs. Under the framework, TPR will evaluate potential enforcement cases based on three factors: impact, scale, and complexity. High-impact or high-scale cases will typically take priority even when straightforward, while low-impact, low-scale

UK pension industry bodies in September 2026 urged the government to overhaul the General Levy framework before pushing through proposed increases, warning the changes could unfairly burden large schemes and undermine consolidation goals. Responding to the DWP’s consultation on the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes General Levy Regulations Review 2026, Pensions UK acknowledged the need to address the levy deficit funding bodies such as The Pensions Regulator, the Money

OECD-wide annual inflation held steady at 4.1% in July 2026, following a decline in June, as increases in 13 member countries were largely offset by declines in 14 others, with 11 more remaining stable. Energy inflation stayed above 10% for a fourth consecutive month, reaching 11.6%, while core inflation (excluding food and energy) remained flat at 3.6%. Food inflation eased to 3.2% from 3.4% in June, with 23 OECD

Aon in August 2026 confoirmed it had agreed to acquire USI Insurance Services from KKR and other shareholders in a $17 billion deal, marking its second major middle-market push in two years following the 2023 NFP acquisition. On a net basis, accounting for roughly $278 million in tax attributes, the price comes to $16.7 billion, or about 14.5 times USI’s synergized trailing-twelve-month adjusted EBITDA. USI, the tenth-largest US insurance