Cosmos's roots run further back than its 1981 incorporation. K.M. Tyllis & Co Ltd became the sole Cyprus agent of Cosmos General Insurance SA of Athens in 1972, nine years before the two entities co-founded the Cypriot insurer. The 1996 handover to second-generation Andreas and Michalis Tyllis preceded a private-to-public conversion in December 1999, a Cyprus Stock Exchange listing on 31 March 2000 as 'Cosmos Insurance Company Limited', and a July 2004 renaming to the current 'Cosmos Insurance Company Public Ltd' to comply with new EU directives.
Today Cosmos is supervised in Cyprus by the Insurance Companies Control Service (ICCS) at the Ministry of Finance and, for its CSE-listed status, by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). It is a Full Member of the Insurance Association of Cyprus for general insurance and is authorised to transact six of the eighteen IAC insurance classes: Motor, Fire, Accident & Health, M.A.T. (Marine, Aviation and Transport), Liability, and Other. Life insurance is handled by a separate corporate entity called Cosmos International Life Insurance Agencies Ltd, which acts as an agency rather than a licensed life underwriter.
Day-to-day the company is led by CEO Kyriakos Tyllis (third-generation namesake of the founder) and works out of 46 Griva Digeni Avenue, 1080 Nicosia. The external auditor is PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited (since the 2022 AGM resolution). According to Cosmos's own About page and corroborating directory data, the company employs more than 70 staff and works with between 150 and 200 insurance intermediaries across Cyprus. As a public company, Cosmos's solvency and production figures are observable — that is the editorial wedge of this profile.