Lloyd's announced that it has received regulatory approval from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to set up a new multi Insurance Special Purpose Vehicle (mISPV).

Following the control actions conducted by ASF, CITY Insurance and EUROINS Romania - the two insurers accounting for almost 75% of the MTPL insurance portfolio in Romania - were sanctioned by the local insurance market supervisor, www.1asig.ro wrote.

On January 27, 2021, the first conference "InsurSelling-2021. Insurance sales - strategy and tactics, transformation and evolution, myths and reality", organized by "Insurance Today" in a mixed, online-offline format, in which some of the speakers gather in a specialized studio, and all other speakers and participants take part in the online mode, will take place in Moscow.

Philip BANCROFT - CHUBB Group Executive Vice President of and Chief Financial Officer, plans to retire from the company on July 1 after 19 years of service. Peter ENNS has agreed to join the company on or before April 1 as Executive Vice President, Finance, CHUBB Group and succeed BANCROFT upon his retirement.

CHUBB announced that Jeremiah KONZ has been appointed with immediate effect as Chief Reinsurance Officer. He succeeds Michael KESSLER, who was appointed Division President of the company's global cyber risk insurance business. Jeremiah KONZ will report to John KEOGH, President and Chief Operating Officer of CHUBB.

The U.K. Supreme Court ruled last week that insurers must pay out to hundreds of thousands of companies forced to close during the country's first pandemic lockdown, ruling in favor of the Financial Conduct Authority in a landmark case over business interruption cover, Law360 (London) reported.

As sustainability is a global issue, it must be addressed through international coordination where the insurers remain as committed as ever to supporting the transition to a more sustainable society and to tackling climate change, according to Insurance Europe.

Barclays' Managing Director of Group Insurance, Farhad Jamooji, has been interviewed by Aon, in a Fireside Chat, as part of Virtual Reinsurance Renewal Season fireside chats. It was hosted by Dominic Christian, Global Chairman of Aon's Reinsurance Solutions.

The reinsurance industry must manage the risk of large cyber events potentially impacting multiple insured portfolios. Reinsurers are facing a multi-faceted and fast-evolving cyber threat that requires ever greater modeling and analytics capabilities.

At the end of September 2020, Moldovan insurer's ASTERRA GRUP total assets reached MDL 270.78 million (~ EUR 10.1 million). Technical reserves amounted to MLD 166.46 million (~EUR 8 million), while the solvency rate stood at 113% and liquidity coefficient was of 6.82, the company stated for xprimm.md.

In the first three quarters of 2020, the Slovak Republic insurance market totaled EUR 1.68 million, 1.88% less y-o-y, according to the quarterly financial figures published by the National Bank of Slovakia (NBS).

The life insurance segment was down by 6.82% y-o-y to EUR 702.89 million, these types of policies generating 41.79% of the total insurance market, while the remaining 58.21% was accounted by non-life subclasses - GWP of EUR 979.17 million or 2% more y-o-y.

The Cyprus insurance market increased by 0.74% y-o-y at the end of 3Q2020 according to the data published by The Insurance Association of Cyprus - IAC, amounting EUR 66823 million.

The insurance market of Tajikistan completed the first half of 2020 with an increase of 32.50% y-o-y. Total GWP reached TJS 129.06 million (EUR 11.16 million*), according to the data, recently published by the National Bank of the country.

The Georgian insurance sector ended 3Q2020 with growth in local currency by 6.52% y-o-y, GWP amounted to GEL 513.24 million (EUR 133.60 million*), as the data released by the Georgian Insurance Supervision Service shows.

The insurance market of Czech Republic ended the first 9 months of the year with GWP of CZK 126.5 billion (EUR 4.6 billion), up by 1.44% y-o-y, according to the figures published by the Czech National Bank (CNB).

At the end of 3Q2020, the regional insurance market GWP went down by more than 23% y-o-y to about EUR 15 billion, according to xprimm statistics.

Sapiens International Corporation, a global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, announced that Croatia osiguranje (CROSIG), the leading Croatian insurer, has launched a successful go-live with LAQO, a full digital solution for motor insurance.

In the first eleven months of 2020, GWP of the Belarusian insurance market amounted to approximately BYN 1.36 billion (~EUR 0.44 billion*), which is 8.8% more y-o-y, according to the Ministry of Finance of the Republic.

The Financial Supervision Authority (ASF) fined local non-life insurer ASIMED RON 50,000 (about EUR 10 k), withdrew the operating license, declared the insolvency and asked for the bankruptcy of the insurer, wrote profit.ro here.

The 6.4-magnitude earthquake has hit Croatia in 29 December, killing at least seven people and causing severe damage to the town of Petrinja south-east of the capital Zagreb, has also affected the neighboring Bosnia and Serbia, and was felt also in the southern Austria and Hungary.