Bold Bet on Life Insurance in Ghana

Bold Bet on Life Insurance in Ghana

Author: InsurTech Business Series May 19, 2025 Duration: 29:53
In this episode of IBS Podcast, we sit down with Festus William Amoyaw, Co-Founder of FigTech, a rising InsurTech startup out of Ghana that’s taking a bold approach by focusing on life insurance—a space often overlooked. FigTech isn’t following the crowd. Instead of targeting the more popular health or motor segments, they’ve built a platform aimed at improving access to life insurance and other financial services products like Pension and Investment. In this chat, we explored: Why...

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