12
th INTERNATIONAL TAKAFUL SUMMIT
LONDON
Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington

4755

Subscribers

400

Delegates

52

Countries

44

Speakers

2

Days

1

Summit


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About ITS

The growth of the International Takaful industry and demand of Shariah compliant financial products has seen The International Takaful Summit grow from strength to strength, dubbed by delegates and sponsors alike as “The Takaful event of the Year”.

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About ITS

About The Summit

The growth of the International Takaful industry and demand of Shariah compliant financial products has seen The International Takaful Summit grow from strength to strength, dubbed by delegates and sponsors alike as “The Takaful event of the Year”. The summit is now in its 11th year, the event on average attracts over 350 – 400 international delegates. What is unique to other commercial events is that this summit is created for the industry with the considerable support of the industry. The event is by invitation only and unlike other events the summit is free of charge to attend as it is fully subsidised by the hosting organisations and supporting sponsors.

ITS Delegates

In an industry filled with conferences, summits and workshops on Islamic finance, there is a keen need for outstanding events of excellent calibre that draw new institutions as well as industry stalwarts together. ITS takes great pride in achieving this through targeted delegate invitations and supremely focused events organised by a team of industry researchers.

The Summit has so far seen over 4000 International delegates participate from over 52 countries. Our delegates are top decision makers, Chairmen, Board Members, CEO’s, Presidents, Executive Directors, Vice President and other Senior Executives.

Industry participation also benefits from a dynamic platform ranging from government institutions, leading Takaful & Retakaful organisations, legal and academic delegates.

Watch ITS 2016 Highlights

Key stakeholders made presentations on leveraging the expertise in the London market to enhance global Takaful provision. They highlighted the fact London would be receptive to working with Takaful Operators to create a win-win strategy. This was further reinforced in the closing keynote address by Inga Beale, CEO, of Lloyd’s of London who reiterated the commitment of the leading insurance market to welcome Takaful providers.

Speakers

Keynote: New Opportunities for Takaful - Trade and Export Finance

  • 10 July 2018
  • 09:30
  • Orchard Suite

OUSSAMA KAISSI

CEO,The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC)

Keynote: London Market

  • 10 July 2018
  • 10:00
  • Orchard Suite

MAX TAYLOR

Chairman, Islamic Insurance Association of London

Moderator: London Market

  • 11 July 2018
  • 10:00
  • Orchard Suite

DAVID WHEAR

Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Key Requirements for Takaful Operators Accessing the London Market

  • 10 July 2018
  • 10:00
  • Orchard Suite

DAVE MATCHAM FCII

Chief Executive, International Underwriting Association of London Ltd

Leveraging on Lloyds of London for Effective ReTakaful

  • 10 July 2018
  • 10:00
  • Orchard Suite

REHAN SYED-MUHAMMAD

Senior Associate, Lloyd's of London

The MGA Route to ReTakaful

  • 10 July 2018
  • 10:00
  • Orchard Suite

SHEIKH ZUBAIR MIAH

Shariah Scholar, Cobalt

A Broker's Take on Takaful Opportunities for the London Market

  • 10 July 2018
  • 10:00
  • Orchard Suite

GUNER HUSSEYIN

Reinsurance Brokers, JLT Reinsurance Brokers Ltd

Chair: Welcome and Opening Remarks

  • 10 July 2018
  • 09:00
  • Orchard Suite

ALBERTO BRUGNONI

Managing Partner, ASSAIF

The Empathy Between Mutuals and Takaful - How do we Make the Marriage Work

  • 10 July 2018
  • 11:00
  • Orchard Suite

JOHN GILBERT

Director, M&G Advisory Services Ltd

Locating the Mutual Roots of Takaful

  • 10 July 2018
  • 11:00
  • Orchard Suite

AJMAL BHATTY

Managing Partner, Masses Global LLP

Discretionary Mutual - Has its Time Come?

  • 10 July 2018
  • 11:00
  • Orchard Suite

ZAINAL KASSIM

Senior Partner, Actuarial Partners Consulting

Moderator: Session III: Asian and African Takaful Markets

  • 10 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

TARMIDZI NORDIN

Director, Syarikat Takaful Malaysia

Evolving Takaful Models in the Sudan

  • 10 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

TARIG OSMAN

Director, Syarikat Takaful Malaysia

The Sudanese Experince of Takaful

  • 10 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

OMER ELFAROUG

Assistant Managing Director, Shiekan Insurance & Reinsurance Co Ltd

Four Decades of Takaful in Malaysia

  • 10 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

AZIM MITHANI

Independent Consultant

Takaful Opportunites in Southern Africa

  • 10 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

SEDICK ISAACS

Head: Business Broker Distribution, Bryte Insurance Company Limited

Takaful in Kenya

  • 10 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

BILAL LAVING

Shariah Coordinator, Kenya Reinsurance Corporation

Takaful Today - Examining the Qard Issue

  • 10 July 2018
  • 13:00
  • Orchard Suite

SALMAN SIDDIQUI

Associate Director, A.M Best

Impact of Persistent Qard on Takaful and ReTakaful

  • 10 July 2018
  • 13:00
  • Orchard Suite

SAFDER JAFFER

Managing Director, Milliman LLC

Moderator: Session V: Innovative Approaches for Responsible Asset Management

  • 10 July 2018
  • 14:45
  • Orchard Suite

DAUD VICARY

Managing Director, DVA Consulting

Embedding Ethics into Fund Management

  • 10 July 2018
  • 14:45
  • Orchard Suite

NEVILLE WHITE

Head of SRI Policy and Research, EdenTree Investment Management The Aberdeen

The Aberdeen Islamic Global Equity Fund

  • 10 July 2018
  • 14:45
  • Orchard Suite

ELLA-KARA BROWN

Investment Manager, Aberdeen Standard Investments

Investing for positive Social and Environmental Impact

  • 10 July 2018
  • 14:45
  • Orchard Suite

GEORGE LATHAM

Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, WHEB Asset Management

A UK REIT Providing Income from a Commercial Real Estate Portfolio

  • 10 July 2018
  • 14:45
  • Orchard Suite

JASON BAGGALEY

Fund Manager - Real Estate, Aberdeen Standard Investments

Recent Changes to Takaful Regulations in Malaysia and its Implications

  • 10 July 2018
  • 16:00
  • Orchard Suite

BURHANUDDIN LUGMAN

Researcher | Head of Takaful Unit, ISRA

Policy Framework for Takaful / ReTakaful Providers

  • 10 July 2018
  • 16:00
  • Orchard Suite

NAJIB AL ASWAD

Director, Islamic Finance Advisory & Assurance Services (IFAAS)

Merits of Arbitration for Takaful Dispute Resolution

  • 10 July 2018
  • 16:00
  • Orchard Suite

SHEIKH BILAL KHAN

Co-Chairman, Dome Advisory

Keynote: International Takaful Awards 2018 Ceremony

  • 10 July 2018
  • 19:30
  • Orchard Suite

TERRY MASTERS

Senior Warden, The Worshipful Company of Insurers

Struggle of Retakaful: Finding key ingredients for Sustainability

  • 11 July 2018
  • 09:15
  • Orchard Suite

MAHESH MISTRY

Senior Director, Analytics – A.M. Best

ReTakaful Challenges from a Practitioner's Viewpoint

  • 11 July 2018
  • 09:15
  • Orchard Suite

MAHOMED AKOOB

Managing Director, Hannover ReTakaful

Critical Role of ReTakaful in Africa

  • 11 July 2018
  • 09:15
  • Orchard Suite

OMAR GOUDA

Managing Director, Africa Retakaful

Captive Takaful - Does it Mitigate the Need for ReTakaful?

  • 11 July 2018
  • 09:15
  • Orchard Suite

MOHAMED RAHDI

Chief Operating Officer, Braxtone Insurance Management

MODERATOR: Session VIII: Microfinance and Financial Inclusion

  • 11 July 2018
  • 09:15
  • Orchard Suite

MOHAMED KROESSIN

Head of Microfinance Business Unit, Islamic Relief Worldwide

MODERATOR: Session IX: Insuretech and Cyberinsurance

  • 11 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

REZA ZAIN JAUFEERALY

Counsel, FinTech Policy Europe

Blockchain - The Building Block for Insurtech

  • 11 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

ALAN LAUBSCH

Founder, GenBlue

  • 11 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

IAN CHOO

CEO, Ekofolio

Insurtech in Action

  • 11 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

LOTFI BACCOUCHE

Co Founder, VERGE360

Moderator: Session X: Shariah Innovations in Takaful

  • 11 July 2018
  • 12:45
  • Orchard Suite

FAIZAL MANJOO

Consultant, Minarah Consulting

Utilising the MGA Model for UK Takaful - A Practical Implementation Topic

  • 11 July 2018
  • 12:45
  • Orchard Suite

SHEIKH BADR AL-HASAN

Chairman, Insure Halal

Blockchain for Insurance

  • 9 July 2018
  • 12:00
  • Orchard Suite

NICHOLAS BERRY

Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

ITS 2018 Sponsors

The Summit is the perfect way for partners to engage with the Takaful & Retakaful community.

Hailed as “The Takaful event of the year” by sponsors and delegates alike the International Takaful Summit (ITS) is renowned for assembling the most important players in the global Takaful & Re-Takaful industry.

Now in its 11th year, the summit continues to play a pivotal role in the further consolidation and development of the Takaful & Re-Takaful market worldwide.

With unparalleled networking opportunities of over 400 international delegates to include top level CEO’s and managers, over 40 renowned speakers, government officials and leading media agencies under one roof, the summit offers great insight into the Takaful arena as well as generating great opportunities and exposure to participating organisations.

For our sponsorship pack or to discuss suitable packages with our representatives contact us on: sponsorship@takafulsummit.com

Or call:
Ms Randa Buaras
T: +44 (0)208 861 5324

Alternatively click here to submit your request online.

Supporters

Programme

Summit Theme

Strategies for Unlocking the Potential of Takaful

Welcome Message

We are very pleased to welcome you all to the Twelfth International Takaful Summit. The Afkar Group has pioneered the International Takaful Summits in London since 2007. The continuing evolution of Takaful provision in many countries has provided the backdrop for our Summits over the last eleven years. Over this period our aim has been to complement the vision of the pioneers of Takaful in Sudan and Malaysia and provide a forum for debating the successes and challenges facing the Takaful industry.

There are exciting developments which can assist in the growth of the Takaful and Re-Takaful industry. We have a potential Shariah-compliant MGA-based solution for the provision of Re-Takaful for large risks by using the capacity of the global reinsurance industry. The London Market is also eying the Takaful market to bridge any shortfall in business resulting from Brexit. In this Summit, we explore the obstacles and challenges in the way of realising this potential.

As more global actors are getting interested in micro insurance and Micro-Takaful provision to create financial inclusion, we also bring key participants together to discuss how this can be done in a sustainable way.

We continue to deepen our understanding of the kind of insurtech solutions emerging which will challenge traditional ways of Takaful provision and open new vistas for the industry. Again, in the technology space, we explore the challenges posed by cybercrime and the Takaful/insurance solutions that may be required to be offered by providers to enable clients of the industry to effectively mitigate these risks.

Finally, many stakeholders in the Takaful industry are now feeling that the pendulum has moved too far in the direction of risk transfer solutions and are calling for a move back to mutuality and re-booting of the Takaful models. In this Summit we have allowed time to capture this debate as it could prove to be a watershed moment for the Takaful industry.

In the International Takaful Summits we endeavour to enable market participants from all over the world to capture the potential for Islamic Finance and Insurance in the world. At every Summit, we strive to offer robust thought leadership and the most informed platforms and opportunities for our participants to get maximum benefit from this interaction.

This year’s summit builds on the eleven past successful events held in November 2007, July 2008, July 2009, July 2010, July 2011, July 2012, February 2013, February 2014, February 2015, February 2016 and July 2017.

We welcome you to International Takaful Summit 2018 and hope that you will become one of our many regular participants and supporters.

M Iqbal Asaria, CBE
Convenor
International Takaful Summit 2018

The International Takaful Awards

The only industry recognition of excellence dedicated to the Takaful Industry.


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Featuring the International Takaful Awards 2018

Afkar Limited is proud to present the International Takaful Awards 2018.

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Featuring the International Takaful Awards 2018

The International Takaful Awards 2018 will take place at a gala dinner on the evening of the 10th July 2018.

The past few years have witnessed great strides pursuant to driving standards higher in all facets of the industry, but acknowledgement of this has been sparse with only cursory mentions of Takaful in various awards ceremonies.

Takaful and Re-Takaful encompass products and services so diverse that they deserve their own dedicated celebration of accomplishment. The International Takaful Awards will be held at the gala Awards Dinner on the evening of the 10th July 2018 and will recognise the achievements of those companies and individuals that have made significant contributions and shown leadership in the fields of Takaful and Re-Takaful.

Nomination Deadline: 29th June 2018

Key Features

The International Takaful Summit offers a comprehensive programme complete with Interactive sessions, exhibitions and private functions offering a unique and in-depth look into the Takaful & Re-Takaful industry and the way forward.

Programme

ITS offers a flagship 2 day programme with in-depth analysis and insight about the forces driving change in the industry.

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Programme

The programme typically contains 8 – 9 sessions spread across the two day summit which includes, presentations by on average 40 leading speakers, panel discussions and Q&A sessions which offer an exceptional interactive platform for delegates.

Executive Boardroom

A strategy session hosted at Norton Rose Fulbright providing a platform for senior members from the Takaful & Retakaful industry to further explore the challenges and way forward for the industry in the next 10 years.

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Executive Boardroom

A strategy session hosted at Norton Rose Fulbright providing a platform for senior members from the Takaful & Retakaful industry to further explore the challenges and way forward for the industry in the next 10 years.

ITS Exhibitions

In conjunction with the two day programme The International Takaful Summit offers great exhibition platform for attendees showcasing the latest services the industry has to offer.

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ITS Exhibitions

Exhibitions provide a great platform for participating companies to reach our delegates. Companies are offered a 4x3 metre exhibition stand area allocation with addtional space for built in stand if required. If you would like to showcase your company why not contact us.

The International Takaful Awards

The International Takaful Awards remains the only industry recognition of excellence dedicated to the Takaful Industry.

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The International Takaful Awards

The International Takaful Awards are the highlight of the summit. It is the social event of the programme to celebrate and recognise excellence and achievement of those companies that operate within the global Takaful and Re-Takaful sector. High profile VIP guests are invited to the ceremony.

Venue

About the Hotel

Set against fashionable South Kensington, Millennium Gloucester Hotel London Kensington is the perfect combination of charm, comfort, and attentive hospitality. With its convenient location at the heart of the city and Gloucester Road Underground Station just next door, you’ll discover how easy it is to explore the city. Hyde Park, the Royal Albert Hall, and Kensington Palace are all just a short walk away.

Millennium Gloucester Hotel London Kensington