MTPL GWP of Ukrainian insurers-members of MTIBU for 10 months this year went up by 21.4% y-o-y and reached UAH 3.7 billion, according to the data of MTIBU.

UNIQA Group's Ukrainian subsidiaries, UNIQA and UNIQA Life, generated GWP in the amount of UAH 2 billion (~EUR 60.37 million) in 3Q2018, which is 27.1% more y-o-y, as Forinsurer informed.

UNIQA Group's Ukrainian subsidiaries, UNIQA and UNIQA Life, generated GWP in the amount of UAH 2 billion (~EUR 60.37 million) in 3Q2018, which is 27.1% more y-o-y, as Forinsurer informed.

Insurance reserves of Ukrainian insurers as of the end of September amounted to UAH 24.8 billion (+15% y-o-y; ~EUR 748.6 million), according to the member of the National financial services committee of Ukraine, Alexander ZALETOV.

TAS insurance group reported for the first 10 months of this year GWP worth UAH 1.14 billion (+ 38.5% y-o-y) and paid claims of UAH 436.83 million (+49.8% y-o-y), Forinsurer wrote.

MTIBU (Motor Transport Insurance Bureau of Ukraine) announced 93,519 e-MTPL policies were sold in Ukraine since the launch of e-policies (on February 7, 2018) until November 12. Total GWP volume under e-policies amounted to UAH 66.4 million.

For the period from January to September 2018 MTPL premiums of MTIBU members in Ukraine went up by 20.6% y-o-y and amounted to UAH 3.3 billion, said Forinsurer.

INGO Ukraine generated GWP in the amount of UAH 876.8 million, in the first nine months of 2018, 13.7% more y-o-y. At the same time, the insurer's paid claims reached UAH 378.8 million (+10.9%), informed Forinsurer.

According to the National Financial Services Commission, as of July 1, 2018, the total number of Ukrainian insurers amounted to 291, including 31 life insurers and 260 risk insurers. For the first half year total number of insurers decreased by 9.

For 7 months, Ukrainian insurers (members of MTIBU, the Motor Transport Insurance Bureau of Ukraine) generated UAH 2.57 billion of MTPL premiums (+20.5%). The total number of MTPL policies, according to MTIBU, increased by 4.2% and amounted to almost 4.6 million units.

The most important annual meeting of the Croatian insurers, the "Croatian Insurance Days", took place in Opatija, Croatia, on 7 - 9 November.

On November 1st, an Agricultural insurance conference took place in Skopje, Macedonia, organized by the Insurance Supervision Agency in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy. Drawing attention to the necessity of reducing the risks in agriculture by using insurance was the event's main purpose.

Emmanuel DJENGUE, Innovation Director, Europe - RGAX, Spain is the Keynote Speaker at IIF 2018 - Insurance in a DIGITAL WORLD Conference in Bucharest, on November 27.

Becoming a growing threat globally, cyber risks is both a challenge and an opportunity for the insurance industry. MUNICH Re's representatives talked to XPRIMM TV in Baden Baden, about the different approach to this type of risk that the Group, as one of the most active players on the cyber market solutions, proposes.

End investors, Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) funds, and buyers - the three groups active in ILS - have predominantly weathered 2017 loss activity with a view that reinsurance products backed by 'alternative' capital have become mainstream, according to a new Global ILS Market Survey by Willis Towers Watson.

Swiss Re expects the global reinsurance industry to consolidate as the distinction between insurers and reinsurers become increasingly blurred, an executive from the Swiss Group said in Baden Baden, reports Reuters.

Current market conditions are putting increasing pressure on returns with some companies viewing consolidation as a potential solution, James NASH, CEO of International at Guy Carpenter said in his opening remarks at the Baden-Baden 2018 Reinsurance Meeting hosted by the global risk and reinsurance specialist.

E+S Ruckversicherung AG, the Hannover Re Group's unit handling German business, continues to expect a positive premium development in the German market for the January 2019 renewals, albeit at a somewhat more diminished pace than in 2018.

The market volume for cyber insurance is expected to grow up to USD 8-9 billion by 2020, Doris HOEPKE, member of Munich Re's Board of Management stressed in Baden Baden adding that, "The demand for cyber risk cover is growing continuously. We therefore see it as our duty to develop solutions."