GCC Insurance Daily
The day's insurance news across the GCC: regulation, governance, AI in insurance, and people moves. Curated, attributed, and linked to the source.
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Medgulf shareholders have approved drawing roughly SAR78m from the company's share premium account to offset the accumulated losses carried in its March interim accounts, clearing the deficit in full. The move resets the balance sheet and lifts the regulatory overhang that a loss-carrying listed insurer attracts in the Kingdom.
Medgulf has secured a one-year contract to insure the staff of Binladin International Holding Group, effective 1 July, with the mandate worth more than 5% of its 2025 revenue. It is a useful volume win for an insurer working to rebuild profitability after a thin stretch.
Insurers and reinsurers caught by the Central Bank's remuneration circular (5/2026) must finish their gap analysis by 11 October, ahead of full compliance in 2027. The rules tie variable pay for material risk-takers to risk outcomes, with multi-year deferral and clawback, so boards that have not started the work are already behind.
A Dubai student team behind ClaimGuard AI, backed through the Founders of Tomorrow programme, has built a tool that predicts which health claims will be rejected before they are submitted. It is early-stage and healthcare-focused, but it points at where the region's claims-automation effort is heading.
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