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Locked down? Business interruption insurance, low-income MSMEs and COVID-19

The virus is having major impacts on MSMEs the world over - we take a look at some of the possible solutions presented in our most recent Expert Forum, which was exceptionally opened to the public, in light of the global public health crisis.

MiN Best Practice Groups (BPGs)

Members of the Network are welcome to join our new BPG on:

~ InsurTech & Digitalisation ~

The first call will be taking place soon, so if you are interested, and have not yet let us know, please hurry and join the group, by contacting us.

Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to be part of something special!

Building resilience through CRI for MSMEs

The coronavirus pandemic may have stopped us meeting face to face, but it couldn’t halt our regional event in Asia on inclusive insurance, which went ahead as a series of online webinars with some fascinating insights into building climate resilience for small businesses.

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MiN & Members: Events

JMM 2020: the Network's annual member strategy meeting will be replaced by virtual sessions on 15-17 June| Registration open

16th International Conference on Inclusive Insurance: call for proposals open | deadline: 15 May 2020

MiN: Seminario web en Español - "Trabajadores (Des)Protegidos" | 7 de mayo, 2020 a las 14:00 GMT | Inscripción gratuita

Register now - ILO's Impact Insurance Academy 2020 | 14-18 September 2020 in Turin, Italy

Women's World Banking: "Making Finance Work for Women" | 19 October 2020 in San Francisco, USA | Buy tickets

Elsewhere in the sector...

Swiss Re offers proprietary life underwriting manual to help insurers navigate crisis

New education savings-linked insurance product helping mothers in Indonesia

CGAP: COVID-19 - how does microfinance weather the coming storm?

Vodacom, Discovery launch free COVID-19 telemedicine platform

Thai insurer's coronavirus cover draws 'overwhelming' demand

Africa turns to mobile payments as a tool to curb COVID-19

Coronavirus: PhonePe partners with Bajaj Allianz for hospitalisation insurance policy

Inclusive FinTech in the time of COVID-19

insight2impact: Financial health and the coronavirus - another failure to prepare

European Microfinance Platform launches new discussion forum and blog

Member profile:
Pioneer

Why does one of the Philippines' leading microinsurance providers believe in putting the customer at the heart of product design and development as the key to its success? We spoke with CEO and MiN Board Treasurer Lorenzo Chan to pick his brain about this and more in the world of inclusive insurance.

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MiN, Members: News/Blogs/Jobs