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Abstract
In these times of globalization, multinational companies need international insurance to cover their
risks that can occur worldwide. International insurance companies can offer solutions to protect and cover
them. Multinational companies need to cover the parent company but also the foreign subsidiaries.
Therefore, brokers and insurance companies have created the international insurance programs. These
international programs consist of a master policy covering the parent-company and local insurance policies
in the countries where the company has subsidiaries or activities. Subsidiaries can be located in different
countries such as Brazil but also the members of inter-African conference of insurance markets (CIMA).
Brazil is the sixth world economy and the first in Latin America. Many European and American
international companies, including French ones, have subsidiaries in Brazil. It’s a growing market that
attracts investors and businesses. Brazil is an important country for insurance companies covering risks
around the world through international insurance programs. An example showing the importance of Brazil is
that the country has become a producing country in the network of Zurich Insurance Company. Therefore
Zurich Brazil can offer international insurance programs. This means that some Brazilian companies are
now multinational. Brazil’s development was made possible at the end of the military dictatorship followed
by the gradual liberalization of the economy and of the insurance and reinsurance markets. The
liberalization of the reinsurance market was the longest and has raised many difficulties. It occurs in 2007
but remains limited. These legal limitations imposed by Brazil’s authorities (SUSEP, IRB …) cause
problems for producing countries wanting to establish or renew a Brazilian local policy. Indeed, reinsurance
is essential in international programs. There are two levels of reinsurance in the international insurance
programs: the internal and the external reinsurance. The legal limitations mainly affect internal reinsurance.
The same problem arises in the CIMA.
The CIMA was created in 1962. CIMA was established between France and 12 African countries
after their independence to protect the insurance and reinsurance markets. Today, the CIMA is composed
of Senegal, Mali, Chad, Gabon; Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Comoros, Burkina Faso, Benin, Equatorial Guinea,
Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Central African Republic and Togo. In theory, the reinsurance market is liberalized
and any reinsurance company can intervene in the CIMA’s countries. However, to protect their reinsurance
market and avoid capital outflow, the CIMA created the CICA-RE company. The CIMA handles the CICA-
RE company. CICA-RE is a supra-regional reinsurance company. CICA-RE reinsures a portion of the
insurance risks in the member countries. This reinsurance is mandatory for all the insurance companies
which insure a risk in a member country. Compulsory cession rates were established based on the