1. Organization's name, country, established year, number of members etc.
The International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) was initiallyestablished in 1922 as the Insurance Committee of the International Cooperative Alliance(ICA) with a view to strengthening collaboration amongst cooperative and mutual insurers,
ICMIF has grown over the years.
With just five member cooperative insurers when it was formed, today’s ICMIF has grownhugely, with significant numbers of new members joining over the years.
By 1993, when the present Secretariat was established, 75 organisations were members,representing 45 countries. By 2015, this number had risen to more than 230 members
2. Applicable laws of your business, regulatory authority
As an international trade association, ICMIF is self-regulated, and the federation is governedby the 23 members of the ICMIF Board of Directors (generally CEOs of memberorganizations), which meets annually. The Board’s composition represents all geographicalregions of the world.
3. Line of your business, products
ICMIF is primarily funded through its membership fees but may also gain an income fromsome additional services, such as conferences and training for which a delegate fee issometimes charged to members.
Like all mutuals and cooperatives, ICMIF has a simple goal: to meet its members’ needs.
ICMIF focuses on three areas where it is able to deliver unique value to members.
- Networking eg through events such as the ICMIF Biennial conferences- Knowledge eg mutual market share, global 500- Influence eg public relations, and public affairs
Who do we seek to influence?

Working groups which ICMIF is participating in:Group
B20 financing growthtaskforce

Insurance DevelopmentForum

7 IDF working groups:
IDF Microinsurance workinggroup
Climate Bonds Initiative

IAIS drafting groups
Smart Risk Investing (SRI)

Summary
The B20 Turkey bought
together six tasjforces – the key
aims of this taskforce include
facilitating ﬁnancial inclusion
with a focus on small andmedium-sized enterprises(SMEs) and improving global
ﬁnancial regulation
Launched in April 2016, andsupported by Supported by
Geneva Association, IIS andICMIF with the aim of Building
greater resilience to climateand natural hazards risk
Ranging from reinsurance,intelligenceThis is one of the 7 IDF working
groupsThe Climate Bonds Initiative isan international, investorfocused not-for-profit. It's the
only organisation in the world
focusing on mobilizing the$100 trillion bond market forclimate change solutions.
Feedback on papers

ICMIF involvement
Shaun Tarbuck, CEO, is ataskforce member

ICMIF has two member
organizations on the IDF
Steering Committee, Kathy
Bardswick (The Co-operators,Canada) and Jean-Louis Davet(MGEN, France).
Includes Faye, Liz, Mike
ICMIF is co-chairing this alongwith Blue Marble
microinsurance
Shaun Tarbuck, CEO, is a board
memberSabbir Patel and Catherine
Hock are members
Faye Lague, Patrick Schinzel,
Shaun Tarbuck

The Smart Risk Investing (SRI)
initiative focuses on theinsurance community, that
control more than $30 trillion,
to ensure that risk andresilience as defined by UN
global agreements – such as
Sendai and Sustainable
Development Goals – are taken
into account in their stock
selections across all assets
classes
ClimateWise
ClimateWise supports theFaye Lageu
global insurance industry to
respond to the opportunities
associated with the zerocarbon, climate-resilienttransition.
- 5-5-5 Mutual Microinsurance Strategy mentioned as case study in B20 policy paper- ICMIF has been instrumental in introducing mutual insurance in China

4. Characteristics of your members/customers
ICMIF is a trade association, offering membership to cooperative and mutual insurers
worldwide or trade associations/federations representing mutual and/or cooperative
insurance companies, as well as supporting organizations. Full membership in the Federation
shall be open to risk-bearing insurance organizations whose essential purpose is to operate
predominately for the benefit of their insureds and to serve their insurance needs, subject,in fact, to a system of democratic control by or on behalf of their insureds whose economicinterests are their paramount concern.
The "Supporting Member" category of membership is open to suppliers to the insurance
sector who acknowledge the unique nature of ICMIF member organizations and who wish towork in partnership with the Federation and its members to help grow and advance themutual and cooperative insurance sector.
5. Sales channel
If an organization wishes to join the Federation and our leading group of member
organizations, they can contact our Chief Executive Shaun Tarbuck.
6. Challenges
Regulation is the number one key challenge for industry CEOs
7. Other