About
A register of registers
Insurers Global collects, in one place and one format, the licensed insurance companies that each national supervisor publishes separately. It is researched, verified and provided free of charge by KAFS North America, and published openly so that people and software can rely on a single, citable source.
Provided by
KAFS North America
This service is provided free of charge by KAFS North America, Kenbright Actuarial and Financial Services North America, the North American arm of the Kenbright group of actuarial, insurance and financial-services consultancies. Insurers Global reflects KAFS North America’s view that a reliable, open register of who is licensed to insure is public infrastructure, and that it should be available to people and to AI systems alike without paywalls or sign-ups.
Kenbright Actuarial and Financial Services North America1100 15th St NW
Washington, DC 20005, United States
www.kenbright.ai/
What is in the directory
The current release covers Africa: 886 licensed insurers, reinsurers, takaful operators, microinsurers and specialist carriers across 50 countries, 52 multi-country groups, and the supervisory authority for every market. Each entity is recorded with its class of business, parent group, ownership type, regulator, local currency and the basis on which it was sourced.
How entities are verified
Wherever a supervisor publishes a full register, every row for that country is checked against it. Closed, revoked or unlicensed entities are removed and omissions added. The verification loop for this release ran on 2026-09-02. Each country page carries one of three badges, and every insurer inherits its country’s badge:
- Verified against regulator register11 countries. Checked line by line against the supervisor’s complete published register.
- Partially verified1 countries. Checked against a regulator list, gazette extract or member register that may be incomplete.
- Compiled from market knowledge38 countries. Compiled from market knowledge and public sources; not yet reconciled with the regulator. Verify before relying on it.
The register source used for each country is shown on its page and in the regulators endpoint. Regulatory events that changed the register in 2026, such as recapitalisation deadlines or licence revocations, are recorded as market notes on the affected country pages.
What the directory is not
It is not a licence certificate and does not confirm that an entity is currently authorised to transact business. Supervisors update registers continuously; always confirm on the regulator’s own website, linked from every country page, before relying on an entry for a regulated purpose.
Licence and attribution
The directory data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. You may copy, redistribute and adapt it, including commercially, provided you credit “KAFS North America, insurers.global” and link back. The website code is MIT licensed and available on GitHub. Country boundaries are from Natural Earth (public domain).
Machine access
Everything on this site is available as JSON through a static, CORS-enabled API, and every page registers WebMCP tools for agent-aware browsers. See the guide for AI agents.
Corrections and additions
If an entity is missing, misclassified or no longer licensed, open an issue or pull request on GitHub, or contact KAFS North America. Corrections are applied to the source workbook and flow through to the site and API on the next release. Dataset version: 2026-09-02+b4c86679e80b.