Friday, July 1, 2016

Reinsurance Company to increase capital

Kathmandu, June 30: Nepal Re-insurance Company Limited (Nepal Re) has decided to increase its authorized capital and issued capital both to Rs. 15 billion from current Rs. 5 billion and Rs. 3 billion respectively.
The Company’s first Annual General Meeting on Tuesday made decision to make the capital increment.
Addressing the AGM, Finance State Minister Damodar Bhandari said that the government had taken the insurance business seriously.
“Therefore, the budget of the Fiscal Year 2016/17 plans to implement health insurance, doubling the facilities of Foreign Employment Term Insurance and issue financial instrument to with special focus to this sector,” said the State Minister.
According to Bhandari, the government had directed the reinsurance company to establish an Insurance Pool following the decision of increasing the compensation money in terms of third party insurance and travelers insurance.
Chairman of Beema Samiti Prof. Dr. Fatta Bahadur KC stressed on the need to make the reinsurance company’s capacity building in order to make it more competitive in the international market.
Chief executive officer of Nepal Re Chirayu Bhandari informed that the company was getting reinsurance business from the SAARC countries and reinsurance was available in all insurance products in the country.
Likewise, chairman of the company Mahesh Kumar Guragain stated that the company had started initiatives for capacity building of its employees, listing the company in the stock market after including the public investment and rating the company to enhance its credibility in the international market.
Established as a public-private-partnership model with equity participation of the government, life and non-live insurance companies as well as the public limited companies operating in Nepal in December 2014, the sole reinsurance company in the country writes all form of reinsurance business in both life and non-life sector.
The company is the successor to the Insurance Pool which was set up in 2003. 
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