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Regulatory changes · Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states

GCC insurance regulatory changes (2026)

4 of 6 member registers verified against the supervisor’s own list; last checked 4 Sept 2026.

The six GCC states each license insurers nationally, several through the central bank, and a licence in one state does not carry into another.

6Markets
202Licensed insurers
4Verified registersof 6 markets
0Recorded eventsregister notes for 2026

Supervisors and regimes by market

6 of the zone’s members are in the directory.

MarketSupervisorRegimeLicensed insurersRegister
United Arab EmiratesCentral Bank of the UAE (Insurance) / DFSA / ADGM FSRA CBUAEFederal Decree-Law 48/2023; CBUAE supervision; DIFC and ADGM regulated separately68Partial
BahrainCentral Bank of Bahrain CBB—41Verified
KuwaitInsurance Regulatory Unit IRU—32Verified
Saudi ArabiaInsurance Authority IACooperative Insurance Companies Control Law (Royal Decree M/32, 2003); Insurance Authority since November 2023, taking over from SAMA; cooperative model26Verified
QatarQatar Central Bank / QFC Regulatory Authority QCB / QFCRA—18Partial
OmanFinancial Services Authority (ex-CMA) FSA—17Verified

Regulatory changes in 2026

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.

No member register carries a recorded market event for 2026 yet. The supervisors and regimes above are the standing facts; each country page holds its verification log.

Zone bodies: Gulf Cooperation Council

For B2B teams and AI agents

The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.

curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/united-arab-emirates.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/bahrain.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/kuwait.json
  • MCP: connect https://insurers.global/mcp and call get_country_summary with { "country": "united-arab-emirates" }, or list_insurers with country, limit and offset for paged rows.
  • OpenAPI 3.1: /api/v1/openapi.json · WebMCP: /.well-known/webmcp.json · Guide: /ai/ · llms.txt
  • Dataset version 2026-09-08+3f3925fad259; every response carries version, verified and licence.