Insurance: Hard nut to crack despite improved technology

Kenya Re Managing Director Dr Hillary Wachinga at a past event. [File, Standard]

Growing insurance penetration remains one of the uphill tasks that players in the sector still face amid a growing population and improved technology.

How to crack the code for in the informal sector, who make the majority of the market is also still a major challenge for industry players.

And despite attempts to introduce micro-insurance products, catapulted by technology, insurance penetration still stands at 2.3 per cent.