Leading French financial services group AXA has been providing insurance to customers for almost 300 years. Its work, spanning the home, car, travel, breakdown, business and healthcare sectors, reaches 56 countries and 102 million customers. This year the group launched the Philippines’ first ever online insurance store and announced plans to buy the insurance leg of mBank (the Polish unit of Germany’s Commerzbank) in a deal worth $175m. The firm also set out plans to enter into a partnership with the World Bank’s private investment division, in what will prove to be a landmark bid to open up new, emerging markets to the
insurance industry.