Innovation in Takaful Insurance

Unlike conventional finance the success of Islamic finance depends on both faith and economics. Furthermore it is important to remember that the goal of Takaful practitioners is not to systematically replicate conventional insurance products and services in accordance with Islamic percepts but to create new products and services that meet the needs of policyholders even if this sometimes means slower growth. The challenge is to overcome the image of cosmetic accounting that unduly sticks to the Takaful business. Innovation will have to address products and services processes and distribution. Until now the insurance industry has always been able to renew its approaches and models and adapt its offers to societal evolutions. Today almost all of this activity is being re-questioned all the more so as it is being traversed like other financial activities by the digital revolution. Will the insurance industry and particularly Takaful be able to adapt? And above all will they be able to impose themselves before others take their place?