Shareholders of the insurance companies can no longer hide from FSIS and the general public. Under the new amendments to the bill on the organization of insurance business insurers will be required to disclose the full structure of the ultimate beneficiaries of the company, as is now the banks do. The experts supported this rule: Supervision will be easier to calculate the company's one-day and clean the market from unscrupulous insurers.
The amendments, which are directed by the Russian government in the State Duma for consideration by the Committee on Financial Markets and the adoption on second reading (available to RBC daily), stated that the special accounts of the insurer shall include "the shareholders (members) and their equity stake in the insurer" . The head of the Federal Service for Insurance Supervision, Alexander Koval believes that every client is an insurance company is entitled to know who it belongs to precisely calculate their risks. "Supervision also need to know who the owner of the company, so we tried to insurers revealed a fairly large amount of information about its shareholders in a similar way as banks do," - said Mr. Koval.
The Government has stepped up work on the bill in connection with the September 14 order of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, in which he demanded "a series of measures aimed at increasing confidence policyholders to insurers ... including by improving compliance and enforcement activities."
However, we can assume that she might not like those companies that are owned by physical persons ", - said director general of the UK" Russia "Yuri Kolesnikov. "And also to those whose capital is of doubtful origin", - added the vice-president.
"Insurers will be able to disguise the ultimate beneficiary, pointing to statements by the shareholder, such as a legal entity", - said Yuri Kolesnikov, but that he said would be a certain signal to the supervisory authority. "So companies are going to remain on the market, you should not play hide and seek", - said Mr. Kolesnikov. "Thanks to the disclosure of the shareholder structure of the supervisory authority will be easier to calculate the company's one-day and advance to take action" - added Mr. Solomatin.
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