At the end of June 2020, the lower house of the Tajik Parliament approved the law "On compulsory insurance of liability of vehicle owners", aimed at increasing competition in the segment, the Tajik news agency reported.

On June 25, 2020, the first online conference "Insurance - between pandemic challenges and market strengthening", dedicated to the Moldovan insurance market, took place in Chisinau. The conference was organized by XPRIMM with the support of the National commission on the financial markets of the Republic of Moldova (CNPF) and the National Bureau of Motor insurers.

EU rules for insurance should enable innovation and allow consumers, established companies and new market entrants to benefit from the opportunities that digitalisation can offer, Insurance Europe says.However, this is currently not the case; for example, regulatory barriers exist to providing insurance to consumers online, such as requirements for documents to be provided on paper.

The Polish Financial Supervision Authority has partnered with #Fakehunter, the project created by the Polish Press Agency and GovTech Polska to fight disinformation. Whilst the project started as a tool to prevent the spread of fake news in relation to the Covid-19 issues, its creators have decided to expand it to include financial issues.

As businesses across the world begin to recover and reopen, Lloyd's published a report proposing three re/insurance solutions that would allow tackling future COVID-19 and other catastrophic events in a sustainable manner, thus better protecting customers, with a special attention paid to SMEs.

Recent amendments to the rules for investing insurance reserves have been made in the Republic of Belarus. The corresponding decree of the Council of Ministers d/d June 23, 2020 was published on the National legal internet portal, BELTA news agency reported.

From 1 July 2020, life insurance company Bonum Publicum changes its name to SB Draudimas. The change was driven by the closer integration with Siauliu Bankas and based on a group-wide image strategy of being closer to the customer.

Bulgarian insurance market totaled about BGN 760 million (EUR 389 million*) at the end of March 2020, up by 1.58% y-o-y, according to data from the Financial Supervision Commission - FSC.

The Hungarian insurance market amounted to HUF 336.4 billion (~EUR 936 million*) in 2020 Q1, rising by 6.3% relative to the same period of the previous year, according to the quarterly statistics published by the National Bank of Hungary - MNB.

In the first three months of 2020, the Slovak insurance market totaled EUR 629 million, 3.0% more y-o-y, according to the quarterly financial figures published by the National Bank of Slovakia (NBS).

Generali announced a buyback offer for three Series of Notes with first call dates in 2022, targeting the purchase of up to an aggregate principal amount of notes expected to correspond to the aggregate principal amount of new Tier 2 subordinated notes to be issued by Generali.

Fitch Ratings international credit rating agency has published a report evaluating the insurance segment of Uzbekistan. The agency "believes that regulatory oversight in Uzbekistan is developing and has limited transparency and effectiveness of enforcement", the report said.

Fitch Ratings international credit rating agency has published a report evaluating the insurance segment of Azerbaijan, Trend informed referring to Fitch Ratings.

The Bucharest Tribunal admitted, on Monday - June 29th 2020, the bankruptcy request of the Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) in the case of small-sized corporate non-life insurer CertAsig - Societate de Asigurare si Reasigurare SA, informed www.1asig.ro.

The Croatian holding ADRIS Grupa and the shareholder of the largest Croatian insurer - CROATIA osiguranje, have lost the legal battle in Supreme Court due to an increase in their stake in Slovenian SAVA Re, informed local media.

Franz Fuchs (66) will resign from his position as member of the Managing Board of Vienna Insurance Group (Wiener Versicherung Gruppe) at the end of June 2020. In recognition of his achievements, he was appointed Deputy General Manager in October 2019.

Income of local insurers from Kazakhstan increased by 20.1% y-o-y and reached KZT 212.1 billion (~EUR 0.46 billion*) between January - May 2020. At the same time, expenses increased by only 5.8% (to KZT 149.4 billion), Allinsurance.kz reports based on the data of ranking.kz portal.

Romania's parliament has voted Nicu MARCU as President of the Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF), www.1asig.ro informed here. Previously, Nicu MARCU served as Vice-President of Romania's Court of Accounts.

GENERALI announced that Maciej FEDYNA was nominated new President of the Management Board and CEO of GENERALI Poland companies as of 1 July 2020. Maciej FEDYNA, former Chief Financial Officer of GENERALI Poland, will succeed Andrea SIMONCELLI who was appointed as new Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of GENERALI T.U. S.A., GENERALI Zycie T.U. S.A and GENERALI Finance Sp. z o.o.

Aleksander GOGLENKOV was appointed Deputy General Director - Executive director of SBERBANK Insurance, the insurer announced on June 25 in its press release.