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Insurance Register

Greek (re)insurance companies and sub-sectors.

Period 2022
Records 973
Source Bank of Greece

This dataset compiles the official register of insurance and reinsurance companies operating in Greece, as published by the Bank of Greece. It contains 973 observations covering active, ceased, and otherwise inactive entities across all insurance sub-sectors.

Data was collected using R and the rvest web scraping library.

GRins

973 × 10
ColumnTypeDescription
ID Qualitative Qualitative Row number
name Qualitative Qualitative Insurance company name
ins_type Qualitative Qualitative Type of activity (freedom to provide services, insurance undertaking, branch, mutual association)
ins_category Qualitative Qualitative Line of business (non-life, life, composite)
status Qualitative Qualitative Status (active, ceased, liquidation, licence withdrawal)
auth_country Qualitative Qualitative Country of operation (always Greece)
country_of_auth Qualitative Qualitative Country where the company is licensed
website_url Qualitative Qualitative Company website ('-' when missing)
bog_url Qualitative Qualitative The company's page in the Bank of Greece register
address Qualitative Qualitative Head office address

Load in R

R
insurers <- readr::read_csv(
  "https://github.com/stesiam/insuranceRegister/releases/download/v1.0.0/GRins.csv"
)