The article is aimed at analyzing the financial sustainability of insurance companies in dynamics, identifying the factors of influence upon it, determining the peculiarities of its provision in the face of global challenges. Global challenges, one of which is the modern pandemic resulting in the introduced socio-behavioral restrictions, caused a decline in business activity of economic entities, which significantly affected the insurance market and actualized the analysis and provision of financial sustainability of insurance companies. As result of the study, liquidity coefficients of insurance reserves, independence and financial autonomy are computed as the main indicators of financial sustainability. The analysis of the dependence of the of risk of insurance coefficient, the risk retention coefficient, the coefficient of unprofitableness of insurance operations, the profitability of sale coefficient from the proportion of ground transport insurance, the proportion of insurance of other property, the proportion of compulsory insurance of civil liability of owners of land vehicles is carried out. The criteria for ensuring financial sustainability and appropriate measures to strengthen it in the face of global challenges are proposed. Prospects for further research in this direction are the analysis of changes in the behavior of insurance companies in order to identify patterns of behavior of insurers during certain global challenges and megacrises.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the reasons, principles and configurations of interaction between banks and insurance companies in order to ensure their sustainable development in the face of escalating global challenges; and to suggest practical guidance for the further development of cooperation between banks and insurance companies in Ukraine. Factors that hinder this interaction and factors that stimulate it are analyzed, including the customers’ growing need in comprehensive services both in banks and insurance companies; banks' understanding of the necessity to provide comprehensive insurance protection, development and active implementation of new products in the new sphere etc. The preconditions, principles, forms and types of interaction between banks and insurance companies, in particular, mutual investment in capital, customer relations, partnerships, integration, etc. are studied, the peculiarities of the relationship between banks and insurance companies at different levels of integration are analyzed. The ways to intensify and modernize interaction between banks and insurance companies in Ukraine in the face of the escalating global challenges are defined. The analysis of diagnostic indices of banks and insurance companies shows that the financial indicators of banks are not strongly affected by the presence of an insurance company, and as for insurance companies, the presence of banks as a part of financial conglomerates allows such companies to increase the volume of insurance contracts and receive gross insurance premiums. Prospects for further research in this area can be the following: to carry out correlation and regression analysis of the relations between the financial performance of banks subject to the presence of an insurance company in the financial conglomerate, on the one hand, and the financial performance of insurers subject to their interaction with a banking institution, on the other; to analyze the formation of an organizational mechanism in banks and insurance companies; to analyze the ways of improving the system of state supervision over the relations and cooperation between the abovementioned entities.

The need to ensure financial stability of businesses under global challenges conditions is highlighted in this paper. The company financial stability is one of the most important characteristics of the company financial condition, associated with the level of dependence on creditors and investors and is characterized by the ratio of equity and liabilities. The existing methodological approaches for the evaluation of the enterprise financial stability are analyzed. The evaluation of financial stability on the example of metallurgical enterprise by coefficient, score and integrated methods is carried out. The coefficient analysis shows that the most of financial stability coefficients in the dynamics have decreased and are not within the normative values. While analyzing the financial stability type, it is determined that the enterprise in 2018–2020 had unstable financial condition, which indicates solvency violation. The results of the financial stability analysis by scoring method, according to which the coefficients are assigned the appropriate score depending on the approximation to the normative indicator, led to the conclusion that PJSC «AZOVSTAL» in 2018–2020 was included to the fifth class, i.e. crisis enterprise of the highest risk, practically not solvent. The evaluation of financial stability by the integrated method, according to which the value of the integrated indicator should be closer to one, showed that the enterprise financial stability in 2018 was bad, in 2019 very bad, and in 2020 satisfactory. The measures to increase the enterprises financial stability depending on the financial stability level are proposed, particularly, for the investigated enterprise it is proposed to improve financial flow planning, implementation of real payment calendars, creation of financial responsibility centers and strengthening control over them by the holding, which always make it possible to have reliable information about the company's cash flows and increase the controllability of current payments, reduce losses from the funds misuse. It is also proposed to accelerate the turnover of enterprise resources, which will improve the overall efficiency of activities.