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The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) CEO, Mr. Aholotu Palu recently announced that in December 2021, PCRIC received a Christmas gift of €10 million in premium financing from Germany via the World Bank. Further positive news notes that other donor nations are now considering possible additional funding support in the coming days ahead. The accumulation of premium finance support will help to subsidize the cost of PCRIC insurance policies to vulnerable Pacific Island nations.

Last week, the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) and Willis Towers Watson (WTW), co-led a virtual group consultation on PCRIC support for drought challenges in Pacific Island countries. WTW is a leading global advisory for risk solutions with extensive experience in disaster risk finance and the Pacific.

The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) was invited to the Cook Islands High Commission Official Opening earlier this week in Suva. In attendance was the PCRIC Regional Coordinator, Ms. Akosita Drova.

The PCRIC CEO Mr. Aholotu Palu and the team spent an entire day exchanging knowledge and experience in London with the CEOs of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group and CCRIF SPC, Mr. Lindelwe Lesley Ndlovu and Mr. Isaac Anthony. Also in attendance was Ms. Sophie Evans, the Associate Director – Advisory for the Centre for Disaster Protection.

A delegation from the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) headed by CEO Mr. Aholotu Palu, has travelled to the UK for a ground-breaking global summit to be held from the 7th to 10th June. Alongside PCRIC, the African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), will attend this inaugural gathering of regional risk pool organisations. The event will also see critical industry underwriters and advisors participating to exchange ideas, enhance collaboration, and strengthen engagement across the risk pool sphere.

The CEO of the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC), Mr. Aholotu Palu, was recently invited to present to Tongan government stakeholders at a ‘hazard data’ workshop organised by The Pacific Community (SPC). The workshop offered insight into capacity building, disaster risk financing and updating the hazard and exposure database.

Recently, the CEO of the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC), Mr. Aholotu Palu, was virtually attending the 7th session of the Global Platform (GP2022) on Disaster Risk Reduction when he was approached by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) to participate in a live side event… running at the same time.

With the travel restrictions imposed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic being progressively withdrawn, the opportunity to trade Zoom calls for in-person meetings was taken by PCRIC’s Finance and Investment consultants, who were in Fiji last week from Auckland for a series of meetings with PCRIC CEO Mr. Aholotu Palu in Suva.

With scheduled arrangements concluded, whilst preparing for his departure to Fiji Mr. Palu was unexpectedly invited to an audience with Her Majesty Queen Nanasipauʻu. This provided a welcome opportunity to explain the regional role of PCRIC in the disaster risk management sphere, and hear from Her Majesty of a proposal to establish some form of charitable entity aimed at helping those Tongan people whose generational homes and communities were decimated by the January tsunami.