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BoG / CBvS / ACPR register: licensed insurers in Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana

PartialPartially verified against the BoG / CBvS / ACPR register, checked 7 Sept 2026.

The BoG / CBvS / ACPR register for Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana as the directory holds it: 24 licensed insurers with the identifiers the register carries, ready to export as JSON.

Snapshot

By class of business

Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.

By ownership

  • Domestic private16 67%
  • Foreign multinational4 17%
  • Mutual / cooperative4 17%

“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded

BoG / CBvS / ACPR register rows

All 24 entities.

InsurerClassRegister idLEIRegisteredWebsiteVerification
Assuria N.V. (Suriname)CComposite————Partial
Assuria GuyanaGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Assuria Life (GY) Inc.LLife————Partial
Caricom General Insurance (Guyana)GGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
CG United Insurance Ltd.GGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Demerara Fire and General Insurance Company LimitedGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Demerara Mutual Life (Guyana)LLife————Partial
Diamond Fire & General (Guyana)GGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Fatum SurinameCComposite————Partial
Frandec & Company (Insurance) Inc.GGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
French Guiana - French insurers (AXA, Groupama, Generali) via branchesCComposite————Partial
G.C.I.S. IncorporatedGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
GTM LifeLLife————Partial
Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) FireGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Hand-in-Hand Mutual Fire Insurance (Guyana)GGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Hand-in-Hand Mutual Life Assurance Company LimitedLLife————Partial
Nafico (North American Fire & General, Guyana)GGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
North American Life Insurance Company LimitedLLife————Partial
Parsasco (Suriname)GGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Premier Insurance Company Inc.GGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
Premier Life Inc.LLife————Partial
Self Reliance (Suriname)CComposite————Partial
Surinaamse Assurantie MaatschappijGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial
The New India Assurance Company (Trinidad & Tobago) LimitedGGeneral (Non-life)————Partial

Full table for Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana

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.

Register source
Bank of Guyana, List of Registered Insurance Companies (v2, PDF created 19 Sep 2023, the list linked from bankofguyana.org.gy as at 22 Sep 2026): 18 companies with their long-term and general classes. No Suriname (CBvS) or French Guiana (ACPR) list retrieved
Verification
Partially verified against the regulator register · Bank of Guyana, List of Registered Insurance Companies (v2, PDF created 19 Sep 2023, the list linked from bankofguyana.org.gy as at 22 Sep 2026): 18 companies with their long-term and general classes. No Suriname (CBvS) or French Guiana (ACPR) list retrieved

No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.

Governing legislation

  • Guyana · Bank of Guyana · National jurisdiction

    Insurance Act 2016 strengthens the central bank’s risk-based supervisory powers.

  • Suriname · CBvS · National jurisdiction

    The central bank’s published overview describes supervision under the Banking and Credit Institutions Supervision Act, amended in 1986. It labels the replacement insurance act as a draft.

  • French Guiana · ACPR · National jurisdiction

    French insurance supervision operates through the ACPR under the Monetary and Financial Code.

Verification log

Guyana reconciled against the Bank of Guyana register of 18 insurers (Sep 2023): 8 rows matched, Assuria Guyana reclassed C to G, 10 added, Massy United removed as acquired and renamed CG United (2022). Suriname (5 rows) and the French Guiana placeholder row were not reconciled: the CBvS and ACPR sites could not be reached.

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