DAY 1
Session 1 - Opening Keynote Plenary:
Regulatory framework for Takaful : tackling legal, regulatory and operational issues
Key discussion points:
- Meeting global regulatory standards and developing an international regulatory framework for Takaful
- Key regulatory initiatives; view point of takaful operators
- Conducting business & licensing procedures – what are the issues?
- Legal perspectives – how they impact on you and your customers
- Current issues of offshore regulation
Session 2 – TakafulIndustry in Transition: Product Innovations in an Increasingly Competitive Global Market
Key discussion points:
- Learning from conventional insurers and delivering quality service; innovating not imitating
- Implementing technology – what will be the impact on key market prospects?
- Identifying customer needs and developing innovative Shariah compliant insurance products and services
- Reviewing the R&D process – what products can we expect to see in 2008 and beyond?
Refreshment Break
Session 3- Industry Challenges & Opportunities: Regional perspectives and impact on the Takaful & Re-Takaful Industry
Key discussion points:
- Need for insurance industry expertise and role of training institutes
- How important is the development of operational and accounting standards for Takaful?
- Risk securitization: implementation and affect.
- Enhancing public awareness of Takaful products and services
- Understanding the real benefits of Takaful and cooperative risk
Session 4- Shariah compliance and conventional insurance
Key discussion points:
- Basic components of a Shariah compliant insurance market
- Re-insurance and Shariah potential for re-takaful operators
- Developing innovative Shariah compliant products & services
- What are the challenges of ensuring uniform Shariah compliance across financial products and institutions?
Day 2:
Registration and Refreshments
Moderator’s Opening Remark
Session 5 – Innovative Bancatakaful strategies: ensuring correct implementation
Key discussion points:
- How to develop bancatakaful potential for further market penetration?
- Challenges to Integrate Takaful within conventional bancassurance
- Using innovative technology to boost operations
- Retail banking: Takaful savings program
- Evolution and development of bancatakaful
Session 6 – Ratings Perspectives on current Takaful & Re-Takaful Issues
Key discussion point:
- How are Takaful companies rated?
- Discussing factors assessed in rating Takaful companies
- Key issues in the Asian & ME insurance markets
- Shariah Ratings
Refreshment Break
Session 7- Drivers & Challenges for Re-takaful industry
Key discussion points:
- Strengthening capacity & capabilities of Re-Takaful companies
- Identifying Re-takaful as distinctly different from conventional
- What is the potential for Takaful in specialty risks and large scale projects?
- Understanding & meeting Takaful operators needs
Session 8- Takaful08 Open Forum
Key discussion points:
- What are the current developments in ‘Takaful in Europe’ ?
- Re-Takaful: addressing long term decapitalisation issues
- Importance of Ratings Agencies in development of the Takaful Industry
- Development of Shariah compliant pension & annuity products
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