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Specialist authority linked to the central bank

ItalyIVASS

Insurance supervision in Italy.

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01 / The institution

Istituto per la Vigilanza sulle Assicurazioni (IVASS)

IVASS has its own insurance-supervision mandate and close governance links with the Bank of Italy. The Bank’s Director General chairs IVASS and an integrated directorate exercises specified functions.

How it is structured

Specialist authority linked to the central bank

Institutional source ↗

The legal foundations

Mandate, written into law.

Establishing legislation and the rules governing insurance may be different instruments.

02 / Market signals

The numbers, with context.

Figures retain the reporting period and accounting basis of their source. They are snapshots, not live indicators or directly comparable country rankings.

Insurance penetration. IVASS reports the overview’s €162.2bn premium collection as 7.2% of GDP. Segment figures can use different direct/indirect-business scopes.

03 / The report notebook

A dated view of the market.

What we noted in the regulator’s publications. Each entry separates the period covered, publication date when known, and our review date.

ReviewedNOTE 01

2025 · Published

IVASS Annual Report 2025 — summary ↗

Market overview and life/non-life sections of IVASS’s official annual-report summary read. The overview’s total and penetration are retained together; broader direct-plus-indirect segment totals elsewhere in the summary are not added to this total.

Average solvency ratio

273%

The ratio increased from 259.4% in the preceding year.

IVASS Annual Report 2025 — summarySummary page 3 · Country illustration
Read the original publication ↗

04 / Official contacts

Reach the institution.

Public institutional channels, checked 17 September 2026.

Research trail

Sources you can follow.

Independent editorial research by Insurers Global. Source dates do not certify that a law includes every subsequent amendment.

  1. IVASS - Struttura Organizzativa ↗Checked
  2. Institutional website — contact route ↗Checked
  3. IVASS Annual Report 2025 — summary ↗Checked

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