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Licensed insurance companies in Hungary (2026)

VerifiedVerified against the MNB register, checked 3 Sept 2026.

The 26 insurance companies licensed in Hungary in 2026, as recorded by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

Snapshot

26Licensed operators
3Life12% of entities
0General (non-life)0% of entities
7Cross-border groups19 domestically owned

By class of business

Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.

By ownership

  • Domestic private13 50%
  • Pan-European group7 27%
  • State-owned / parastatal3 12%
  • Mutual / cooperative3 12%

“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded

Licensed insurers in Hungary

Showing 25 of 26 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
Alfa Vienna Insurance Group Insurance Ltd.UNot stated in registerPan-European groupVIGVerified
Allianz Hungaria Insurance Co. LtdUNot stated in registerPan-European groupAllianzVerified
BNP Paribas Cardif Insurance Hungary Private Company Limited by SharesUNot stated in registerDomestic privateBNP ParibasVerified
BNP Paribas Cardif Life Insurance Hungary Private Company Limited by SharesLLifeDomestic privateBNP ParibasVerified
Generali Insurance Private Company Limited by SharesUNot stated in registerPan-European groupGeneraliVerified
Genertel Insurance Ltd. Genertel Ltd.UNot stated in registerPan-European groupGeneraliVerified
Groupama Garancia Insurance Private Company LimitedUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperativeGroupamaVerified
NN Biztosító Zártkörűen Működő RészvénytársaságUNot stated in registerPan-European groupNN GroupVerified
UNION Vienna Insurance Group Biztosító Zrt.UNot stated in registerPan-European groupVIGVerified
Magyar Posta Lebensversicherung Geschlossene AktiengesellschaftLLifeState-owned / parastatalMagyar Posta / TalanxVerified
Magyar Posta Versicherung Geschlossene AktiengesellschaftUNot stated in registerState-owned / parastatalMagyar Posta / TalanxVerified
GRAWE Életbiztosító Zártkörűen Működő RészvénytársaságUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperativeGRAWEVerified
K&H Insurance Close Company Limited by SharesUNot stated in registerDomestic privateKBCVerified
UNIQA geschlossene Versicherungs AktiengesellschaftUNot stated in registerPan-European groupUNIQAVerified
AUTOHOME Magyarország Kölcsönös Biztosító EgyesületUNot stated in registerDomestic privateIndependentVerified
CIG Pannónia First Hungarian General Insurance Plc.UNot stated in registerDomestic privateCIG PannoniaVerified
CIG Pannonia Life Insurance Plc.LLifeDomestic privateIndependentVerified
European Travel Insurance Company LimitedUNot stated in registerDomestic privateIndependentVerified
Gránit Insurance LtdUNot stated in registerDomestic privateIndependentVerified
Hungarian Exportcredit Insurance Company Ltd.XSpecialty / Credit / CaptiveState-owned / parastatalPublic / state-linkedVerified
KÖBE Central European Mutual Insurance AssociationUNot stated in registerMutual / cooperative—Verified
LegitiMo Rechtsschutz- Versicherungs- Geschlossene- AktiengesellschaftXSpecialty / Credit / CaptiveDomestic privateIndependentVerified
Magyar Ügyvédek Kölcsönös Biztosító EgyesületeUNot stated in registerDomestic privateIndependentVerified
Medicare Insurance Private Ltd.HHealth / MedicalDomestic privateIndependentVerified
Medikon Kölcsönös Baleset és Egészség Biztosító EgyesületHHealth / MedicalDomestic privateIndependentVerified

Full table for Hungary ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Hungary

Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.

Register source
EIOPA Register of Insurance Undertakings export (3 Sep 2026)
Verification
Verified against the regulator register · EIOPA export, 26 domestic undertakings / 3rd-country branches

No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.

Governing legislation

  • Act CXXXIX of 2013; Insurance Act LXXXVIII of 2014 · Institutional and insurance framework

    The central-bank act provides MNB’s institutional framework and the 2014 insurance act governs insurance business.

Verification log

Class and group inferred from name - see Master List basis columns

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