Bìznes Inform (Aug 2021)

Insurance Companies as an Element of the Credit System

  • Romashko Oleksandra M.,
  • Krykhivska Nataliia О.,
  • Savchyn Liubov M.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.32983/2222-4459-2021-8-150-156
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 523
pp. 150 – 156

Abstract

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The article is aimed at researching the main indicators of the activities of insurance companies in Ukraine and determining their role in the structure of credit system. Generalizing scientific works on the research issues of the functioning of non-bank financial and credit institutions as a whole and insurance companies in particular, the authors determine the need to study certain issues of development of insurance market actors at the present stage (namely, indicators of the activities of insurance companies) and define their place in the credit system. Analyzing the dynamics and structure of the assets of the credit system in the context of its components – the banking and parabanking system, the bank-centric model of the financial market is determined, because the main share in the assets of the credit system is occupied by the assets of banking institutions. It is determined that financial and insurance companies play a significant role in the functioning of the credit system of Ukraine among parabanking institutions. The analysis of the main indicators of the activity of insurance companies and the dynamics of their number is carried out. It is found that despite the decrease in the number of insurance companies in dynamics, the volumes of gross insurance premiums and gross insurance payments are characterized by positive growing trends. Factors influencing such changes are the exit from the market of unreliable and financially insolvent insurers; change of views on life insurance, assets and liability, as well as an active development of partnerships with foreign counterparties and the emergence of insurance companies with foreign capital on the domestic market. The article also provides a rating of insurance companies by assets at the end of 2020 and defines their share in the assets of the credit system in general. Prospects for further research are to distinguish the main reasons for the downturn in the number of insurers and their impact on the state of the financial services market as a whole.

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